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Column: “Oriental” is not Necessarily Authentic

"G-d came from Sinai, and rose from Seir unto them" (Deuteronomy 33:2) This column deals (in Hebrew) with the "easternization of the west" thesis, and its implication to Israeli search for the East. This small piece holds some complex critical moves, and makes some scholarly questions available, along with their relevance to contemporary western, and Israeli, life.

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February 6, 2022

Education and higher education

A students’ film at the program of Mysticism and Spirituality, including scenes with Marianna Ruah-Midbar

A film that was initiated, edited and produced in 2014 by undergraduates at the program of Mysticiam and Spirituality at Zefat Academic College (founded by Marianna Ruah-Midbar), led by Omer Lahav, a graduate of the program, The film includes documented scenes from the studential milieu and of courses of various lecturers.

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December 13, 2021

Art (music\film\literature etc.) / Feminism gender and sex / History / Israel / Judaism and Kabbalah / Magic and paganism / Myth

Lecture: A Sexual Spiritual Jewish Awakening – Observing the Wonder (=Pele in Hebrew)

This (Hebrew) lecture opened the launching event for the book Glowing Gloom by Pele Ohad Ezrahi, the second one in the triligy Kedesha (holy/pristess prostitute). The lecture presented thoughts on the book, its wider context, and a critical reflection on the sacred sexuality scene. The lecture is 20-min. long. The event's title is "Sex-kind Revolution". (The word "Min" in Hebrew means both sex and kind".)

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December 9, 2021

Disputation or conflict / Israel / Popular culture and mass media

A reportage on The Knowledge Book (including an interview with Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro) at HaAretz.

The reportage, that was published at the Israeli newspaper HaAretz (December 2018), describes The Knowledge Book and its Israeli proponents, and includes interviews with scholars including Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro.

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November 29, 2021

Identity / Israel / Judaism and Kabbalah

An interview at Dov Elbaum’s TV program, “Welcoming the Shabbath”, for the weekly Torah portion of “Eqev”

An interview broadcasted August 2008 in the 1st channel of Israel, A 30-min. talk between Dov Elbaum and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, for the weekly portion of “Eqev”, at Dov Elbaum’s TV program, “Welcoming the Shabbath” (in Hebrew, with built-in Hebrew subtitles).

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November 18, 2021