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Leaving the Cave

Leaving the Cave
By Yair Sheleg  |  15/07/2010
In today’s consumerist society, in which values and culture have a brand name and go by a rating, the face of society is determined by the face of its mass culture. If the elite refrains from trying to affect the face of mass culture, mass culture will no longer allow the elite to barricade itself into its self-constru...

Tel Aviv prayer
By Rani Jaeger  |  15/07/2010
It is difficult to breathe in Jerusalem, and difficult to pray, and that’s why I travel to Tel Aviv: not to escape from the sanctity but to achieve a moment when there is holiness that emanates from the person rather than the place. Rani Jaeger, among the founders of the “Israeli Prayer House” in Tel Aviv explains why ...

How to create a new status quo
By Gilad Malach  |  15/07/2010
The Gavison-Medan Covenant authored by Rabbi Yaakov Medan
and Professor Ruth Gavison, is the most important covenant that has been written in this generation and it has not yet said its final word. Gilad Malach writes about the creation of this unexpected document, which was produced when a jurist and a Hebrew Univers...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  15/07/2010
Now, when it's finally over and done, now, that the life of most (?/!) men and women are back to the ordinary, it's maybe the occasion for an inevitable inquiry; what does the Mondiale actually stands for?


Letter from London – A cultural incubator to nurture the lonely artist
By Antony Lerman  |  15/07/2010
Creativity is often associated with the idea of the lonely artist living a life of penury in his garret. Paint, a canvas, imagination, inspiration, passion: if you're talented, what more do you need? This image is ridiculously outmoded, of course, and was never accurate in the first place. But it sometimes seems a...

Blog - The Nazi Mickey Mouse
By Agata Peleszuk  |  15/07/2010
A red billboard with a black swastika and a Mickey Mouse-mask naked woman advertise the international art gallery in Poland’s western city of Poznan. Only in several days the poster went down in history as a shameless Nazi Mouse that outraged the public opinion all over the world. The controversial poster kindles again...

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