Nextbook–February 10, 2009
Rarely do secular Jews picture the ultra-Orthodox building a snowman, sprawled piss-drunk across a table, or half-naked and covered in mud at the Dead Sea. But Israeli photographer Menahem Kahana’s exhibition of provocative, often humorous photographs—on display at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv through June 30—reveals a side of this community [...]
January 30, 2009–The Jerusalem Post
As I sit in the studio of photographer Roi Kuper, he reads aloud from “It’s the Dream,” a poem by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge: “It’s the dream we carry/that something wondrous will happen… that one morning we’ll quietly drift/into a harbor we didn’t know was there.”
“His poem says [...]
Forward–October 2, 2008
Two years ago in the midst of the Second Lebanon War, the popular French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy, was sent to Israel by the New York Times Magazine to “ponder, discuss and travel” as the title of his piece suggested. The result, an essay defending the country’s military confrontation against vociferous critics, was [...]
The Jerusalem Post–September 11, 2007
On the morning of September 11, Jewish photographer Robert A. Cumins was running late. He was on his way to a coffee shop down the hill from where he lives in New Jersey for his daily ritual of coffee and breakfast, when a fateful premonition urged him to turn around.
Timing was [...]
