Monthly Archives: April 2016

Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism (Stanford)

Posted on April 7, 2016 by zjb

The dreary and now almost predictable slipping of anti-Zionism into anti-Semitism continues, this one at Stanford. It’s the idea expressed by a member of the ASSU student Senate that Jewish control of the media and of government is an open question. In … Continue reading →

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Material Culture, Animal Culture (Books Made from Vellum)

Posted on April 5, 2016 by zjb

They used to make high end books out of vellum, described as “the semi-transparent inner membrane of calf skin,” or the even finer uterine vellum, that membrane taken from the skin of embryonic or still-born calves. Marc Epstein tells is … Continue reading →

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Take the L Train (Tomer Hanuka)

Posted on April 4, 2016 by zjb
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(North Carolina) Why No University Boycott? (LGBT)

Posted on April 3, 2016 by zjb

My brother asked me to post this question. Leaders in corporations and in state governments (including Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York) are beginning to turn the screws on North Carolina in the wake of that state legislation’s controversial bill … Continue reading →

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Universal Norms & Murdering Arabs in Israel (1951)

Posted on April 1, 2016 by zjb

The news from Israel is full of the tension between norms and practice –the universal norms of a democratic polity versus the dehumanizing practice of military occupation. Recent video footage shows an Israeli soldier in the occupied city of Hebron … Continue reading →

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