Creating love out of the broken pieces by Stephen Hazan Arnoff In “Adam Raised a Cain,” Bruce Springsteen explains what happens when children inherit the burdens of a father whose pain trumps his ability to love: In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast You’re born into this life paying
Cain, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a trip up the Alps by Elissa Strauss For centuries the Swiss Alps were nothing more than an inconvenience for travelers. They were something to skirt, a sign that it was time to veer left or right because carrying on forward simply wasn’t worth
Freedom and its discontents by Basmat Hazan and Ruby Namdar Ruby: The tale of Cain and Abel, describing the first murder in human history, happens in an open field. Do you think the field location carries a special meaning? Basmat: Yes – the field is not just the
Noah Leads Us From Blueberry Island to the Empire State Building by Karen Loew “Noah’s Ark” by Edward Hicks Once upon a time…a flood covered the entire Earth. A number of humans and animals floated in a ship until the water receded. Then they left the ship and re-started
Noah, Phil Ochs, and Us by Stephen Hazan Arnoff It says in the Bible that Noah was the righteous man of his generation, which commentators of old noted was corrupt and twisted. Noah would have done well to make a Marxist exit from the Generation of the Flood – “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to
On Mythical Spaces and the Practice of Drawing by Tirtzah Bassel For me, mythical spaces address the gap between the world I see and the world I feel. As a visual artist, I use the practice of drawing to navigate these breaks, or openings, in my experience. On my studio
How Woody Allen Found His Way into My Ark by Elissa Strauss Myths are stories that explain the inexplicable. They answer questions like: Where did we come from? And where should we go? There are the classic mythological places, like Atlantis, Shangri-La, Eden and Noah’s Ark, which for centuries colored human understanding about
A Brief Debate by Basmat Hazan and Ruby Namdar Did Noah turn to drink after leaving the ark because he was sad to have left the heaven? Or traumautized from living in hell? “Drunkenness of Noah” by Giovanni BelliniBasmat: Ten generations after humans were created, not long after
A native of Israel, Ghiora Aharoni moved to New York in 1993. Before opening his design studio in 2004, he worked at several distinguished architectural firms including Polshek Partnership and Studio Daniel Libeskind. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the City College School of Architecture and Environmental Studies, with a Master of Architecture
Spotify and Its Infinite Towers of Songs by Stephen Hazan Arnoff In her song “Land,” rocker Patti Smith once sang: “At that Tower of Babel they knew what they were after.” I am not sure what she was after in saying those words, but I do know that in the ears of an