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School:
Studied Jewish History
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and Islam & the Arab World at University in Australia)
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then I went to Mayanot Yeshiva (Jerusalem)
URLs:
http://www.zeek.net
http://www.myspace.com/ezandloretto
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Currently reading:
Orphan Pamuk "Snow" (about modern Turkey
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Islamic fundamentalism
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women's lives in the Middle East and more...)
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Hugh Kennedy "When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World" (an account of the Abbassid Dynasty
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Islam's longest continuous ruling dynasty
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and a cultural / political force about as important as Ancient Rome)
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Gitta Sereny "Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth" (about Hitler's right hand man - the official architect of the Third Reich. He was one of the only top ranking Nazis to even pretend to be repentant)
Currently listening:
Indian music
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sufi music
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Chazzanot
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Klezmer
,
and most Jewish music.
Currently watching:
Guadjo Dilo
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Earth 1948
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Before Night Falls
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Style Wars
,
Rebel without a Cause
,
Suburbia
,
Candy
,
28 Days Later
,
Cannibal Apocalypse
,
Repo Man
,
1984
,
Birdy
,
Shortbus.
About Ezra
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Is there room for a Yiddish Republic in the Hebrew Republic?
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06/24/08 10:51 am
What about Tribe #6 of Israel - the Chareidim? They too have their own agenda / culture / media / politics.
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point taken
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Last Summer War, Next Summer Laughter
06/20/08 11:14 am
good point
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Non Hippy Autonomous Zones
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Recreational Utopias: Temporary Paradise in a Complicated World
06/11/08 9:11 am
There's also a bunch of non / anti hippy annual utopias like Wacken Open Air, the Bulldog Bash, the The WarCraft Occult and more.
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Rabbi David Algaze I agree
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POEMS: "Palestine, A Sestina" plus others
06/05/08 12:17 pm
Rabbi David Algaze I agree that the peace efforts aren't proving to work .... but what makes you think your approach will work either?
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yep i like it
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A Blacklist The Left Could Use
05/02/08 2:23 am
love the tunes. Evokes a bleakness and driving sense of despair ala Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy - a sentiment I've always appreciated.
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My Haggadahs of choice
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Ten Haggadahs To Try This Passover
04/18/08 1:13 am
I also like the Breslov Haggadah and Rabbi Eliyahu Tougar's Chassidic Haggadah.
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