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UCLA Israel Studies Honors Amoz Oz

Posted on May 11, 2015 (June 28, 2023)

UCLA Israel Studies Honors Amoz OZ – Forbes View Original Article […]

The Chill of Duchamp’s ‘Etant Donnes’

Posted on April 30, 2015 (June 28, 2023)

The Chill of Duchamp’s ‘Etant Donnes’ – Forbes View Original Article […]

The Liar: the Four Personas of Adolf Eichmann

Posted on April 21, 2015 (June 28, 2023)

Published in The Los Angeles Review of Books: The following essay/book review was just published in The Los Angeles Review of Books: http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/liar-four-personas-adolf-eichmann The Liar: The Four Personas of Adolf Eichmann April 19, 2015 By Tom Teicholz Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer By Bettina Stangneth (Knopf). LIKE A FOSSIL preserved […]

From Here to ‘Afar’: The Art of Peter Forgacs

Posted on April 3, 2015 (January 13, 2024)

“Once upon a time” is a phrase we use for fairy tales and fables. Yet most Jews carry with them another time, another land, another city. It could be the Pale of Settlement or Vilnius, Krakow or Lvov or, in more recent times, the Lower East Side, the Bronx, Tehran, Moscow, Buenos Aires or even […]

Cult of Luxury: Craftsmanship, Scarcity and the Hermès Brand

Posted on March 12, 2015 (June 28, 2023)

How HermÃÂ¨s has succeeded in creating veneration-worthy items as well as a successful global brand is a story worth studying.Thierry HermÃÂ¨s was a leather harness maker who set up shop in Paris in 1837. The saddles, bridles and harnesses he made were prized by the rising bourgeoisie of Louis Phillipe’s reign in 19th Century France. […]

Bob Dylan Blew My Mind at MusiCares

Posted on February 16, 2015 (June 28, 2023)

Let me indulge in some hyperbole: When Moses spoke after he came down from the mountain, when Jesus delivered his Sermon on the Mount, I don’t believe their audience could have been any more stunned than I or the other 3000 attendees were at Friday night’s Grammy week MusiCares charity event when Bob Dylan, this […]

Fifty Shades of Mel Brooks

Posted on February 13, 2015 (June 28, 2023)

Anastasia writes: I was a college student at the time working part-time at Fromin’s deli, the first time he came in. There was something powerful and domineering about him. “I need things,” he said to me, his voice a rough mix of Brooklyn and post-nasal drip that sent an electric current though my whole body. […]

Cult of Luxury: The Romance

Posted on February 12, 2015

THE ROMANCE of LUXURY: Â One evening a few years ago, my wife and I dined with another couple at Bartolotta Ristorante Di Mare in Las Vegas at the Wynn Hotel. Named for its chef, Paul Bartolotta, theÂ restaurant features Italian cooking and seafood specialties and is very, very expensive…. View Original Article […]

Cult of Luxury: What it is, who makes it and how we recognize it

Posted on February 5, 2015

What is luxury? How do we experience it or know it when we see it? More to the point: how do the purveyors of luxury communicate it to us? I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of luxury lately and I want to explore its meaning on a regular… View Original Article […]

Mozart as Guilty Pleasure

Posted on January 31, 2015 (March 20, 2024)

“Mozart in the Jungle” which I binged watched on Amazon’s streaming service recently is a great example of what I call a really good bad show. Which is another way of saying that although it is thin on plot, the characters are at times caricatures and there are moments of… View Original Article […]

Les Blank is Always a Pleasure

Posted on January 30, 2015 (June 28, 2023)

One night a few months ago, I found myself surfing through the Criterion collection on Hulu and stumbled upon an early Les Blank documentary, “The Blues According to Lightnin” Hopkins.” I pushed play and I was suddenly in a field in Mississippi, with great immediacy and no explanation Ã¢ÂÂ no… View Original Article […]

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