Olga Gershenson, covering the Jerusalem Film Festival for Tikkun, reviews “God of the Piano” and “Red Fields.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
Picturing Our Possible Futures
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Phillip Barcio reviews new exhibitions by Inka Essenhigh and Matthew Couper which both address climate change, albeit in radically different ways.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Dispatches from the Jerusalem Film Festival: “Peaches & Cream”
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Olga Gershenson reviews “Peaches & Cream,” a film whose cynical view of the #MeToo movement puts it “out of sync with its time.”
Israel/Palestine
Dispatches from the Jerusalem Film Festival: “Chained”
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Olga Gershenson reviews “Chained,” a film by Yaron Shani that blurs the line between fiction and real life.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Book Review: Journey to Open Orthodoxy by Rabbi Avraham Weiss
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Joshua Shanes argues that Rabbi Avi Weiss’s book on Open Orthodoxy both provides a loving entry into Judaism and a complex, problematic relationship between Judaism and Zionism.
Tikkun Daily
Exhibition Review: About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art
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Phillip Barcio reviews About Face, a new exhibition of queer art that, by acknowledging and respecting otherness, invites us to bridge differences.
“In the West we are short on time”
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In this review, Anna Newman calls Brenda Hillman’s newest poetry collection “an ecopoetical elegy for Hillman’s loved ones, for nature, and for political activism.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
Book Review: The Gospel According to Lazarus by Richard Zimler
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Jacob Staub argues that Zimler’s latest novel is “a midrash on a Christian text,” one whose central claim is that Jews can “reclaim the real Jesus, recast in our image.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
“Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese”: A Review
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Martha Sonnenberg reviews “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese,” a film that plays with our sense of truth, fiction, reality, time, and memory.
Unbinding the Particular
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Reviewing James A. Diamond’s Jewish Theology Unbound, Aaron Hughes writes that the goal of the book is to recover “a—not the—philosophical theology that emerges from Jewish sources.”
Politics & Society
Transcending Trauma
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Martha Sonnenberg reviews Rabbi Tirzah Firestone’s new book Wounds into Wisdom and argues that it helps us recognize “the ways in which we and others are affected by trauma, and what this may mean for healing the world.”
Graphic Eugene Debs
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Martha Sonnenberg reviews this new graphic biography of Eugene V. Debs and argues that the book’s strength lies in how it connects social theory to political activism.
Politics & Society
Bullshit Jobs
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In this review of David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, Miki Kashtan explains what bullshit jobs are and how they can help us understand “the rightward turn of so many voters around the world.”
Ecological Transformation
Book Review: The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
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Deena Metzger calls Dahr Jamail’s new book a record of “the terrible knowledge, moral anguish, and great love of a journalist who embeds himself in the physical reality that the natural world is suffering.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
“As ‘Infinity Goes on Trial’, All There Is – Is”
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Aubrey L Glazer asks: “how does this devotional poetry relate to, and even sing, like prayer in a post-secular context?”