September 22, 2020
Basic Law: Israel as Nation-State was not crafted to pronounce any arrangement or instate any procedure. This article claims that the basic law was constructed to elevate the discourse of national Jewish honor and the legislative and executive branches that champion it, while downgrading human dignity and rights, the basic law that constitutes them, and…
December 27, 2016
Sixty million Trump voters can hardly be thought to have a wide common denominator. In fact, the only thing they likely have in common is having voted for Donald Trump on November 8th 2016. Yet, a significant fraction of these voters seems to share a deep sense of discontent. This shared discontent may be framed…
October 28, 2016
This article offers a film analysis of Israeli films which, it claims, embrace or critique Israel’s Zionist and Palestinian perceptions of honor, as compared with universal human dignity. The article groups together and examines six acclaimed Israeli feature films that, it argues, present and comment on Zionist and Palestinian perceptions of honor, as well as human dignity. The Israeli-Zionist…
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016
North Country is a powerful Hollywood depiction of one woman’s painful yet triumphant struggle to establish sexual harassment in the workplace as “class action” and to compel a workplace to stop its harassing practices. The article compares the cinematic version to the historical event on which it relies but focuses on reading the film in…
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016
Hollywood’s Hero-Lawyer movies are a distinct group of American feature films. Typically, they each depict a lawyer who unwittingly finds himself at the heart of a moral drama involving a client and/or a community in distress, gross injustice, the rule of law and powerful, obstructive forces that must be overcome. Alone with nothing at his…
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016