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About zjb

Zachary Braiterman is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. His specialization is modern Jewish thought and philosophical aesthetics. http://religion.syr.edu

Rise and Resist Happy Fourth of July Civil Disobedience (Therese Patricia Okoumou)

Posted on July 4, 2018 by zjb

Rise and Resist. Because of people like Therese Patricia Okoumou, this is why I love this country. Here’s the story and video at the New York Post.  “The unidentified daredevil took Lady Liberty at around 3:33 p.m. and then toyed … Continue reading →

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(Interview with Batsheva Goldman-Ida) Hasidic Art & the Kabbalah

Posted on July 1, 2018 by zjb

Hasidic Art Objects

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City of Curiosities (Urban Pop Up Art)

Posted on July 1, 2018 by zjb

It’s gone now, but there was this temporary installation of privately funded public art at the corner of St Nicholas and Frederick Douglass. Boxes were installed into a plain plywood wall. It’s pop-up art. Politically and morally, it’s a mixed … Continue reading →

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(Agitated) Philosophy and Art (Adrian Piper)

Posted on June 28, 2018 by zjb

Check out the big Adrian Piper exhibition currently at MoMA. Her work goes back to the 1970s. Piper worked at the intersection of art, philosophy, and politics. I am going to write more about her later, but for now I’m … Continue reading →

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Everything #6 (Adrian Piper)

Posted on June 27, 2018 by zjb

(Adrian Piper, Everything # 6, 2004)  On an incredibly sad day thinking about the new Trump Supreme Court, the six digital prints on wallpaper by Adrian Piper were particularly apropos. “Everything will be taken away.”

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This Amazing Asian Supermarket in Morningside Heights (H Mart)

Posted on June 27, 2018 by zjb

For gastronomes and Food and Foodway Studies people: Speechless, I wandered aisle after aisle, struck by the vastness of varieties and options –produce, meat and fish, noodles, kimchi, mushrooms, desserts and snacks, and also cookware and kitchenware. When I have … Continue reading →

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(Democracy) Little Forest and Garden Parks (Harlem)

Posted on June 26, 2018 by zjb

The neighbors who tend this little park in Harlem turned it into a forest. A white gravel path takes you into the cool, dark shade. There are cats here at the Joseph Daniel Wilson Gardens at W. 122 Street between … Continue reading →

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Irate on the Upper West Side

Posted on June 25, 2018 by zjb

“Feeling or characterized by great anger.” Posted on 108th Street or something like that just off Riverside Drive.

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Red-tailed Hawk Fledgings & Angel’s Horn (St John the Divine)

Posted on June 24, 2018 by zjb

Would someone versed in Christian/Episcopal iconography please help me identify the angel on the back end of the roof of St John the Divine overlooking Morningside Drive down below.  The cathedral being St John, is the angel one of the … Continue reading →

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(Then When) If Not Now (Response To Professor Miriam Elman)

Posted on June 22, 2018 by zjb

A dire threat to the Jewish community? If Not Now (INN) is a Jewish protest movement that has put its critical focus on opposition to “the occupation.” They have recently gotten a lot of critical blowback from inside the organized … Continue reading →

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