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Was Moses Was High on Drugs? Israeli Researcher Says Yes!

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2008-03-05 20:00:41 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...Israelites were on drugs, says Benny Shanon, an Israeli professor of cognitive philosophy Writing in the British Journal Time and Mind, he claims Moses was probably on psychedelic drugs when he received the Ten Commandments from God The assertions give a whole new meaning to Moses being high on Mount Sinai According to Shanon, a professor at...
 
Tags: moses, drugs, biblical moses, claims moses, shanon, event, psychedelic drugs, benny shanon, supernatural cosmic event
 
 
 
 
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Stalags (ISRAELI)

2008-04-10 01:19:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...Israeli society because discussion of the Holocaust had been suppressed due to the survivors general inability to talk about their horrific experiences Consequently, in the absence of authentic autobiographies by real concentration camp victims, these Stalags not only filled the void but, worse, were embraced as factual memoirs rather than...
 
Tags: israel, concentration camp prisoners, jewish, jewish readers, mike longshot, pornography, holocaust internees, anti-semitic pornography, mike
 
 
 
 
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Jellyfish (Meduzot) ISRAELI

2008-04-11 22:28:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...Israeli Adventure In recent years, some of the most intriguing, feminist dramas have been coming out of Israel. The character-driven Ninas Tragedies and Close to Home come immediately to mind. You can now add Jellyfish to that impressive list, a surreal adventure which whimsically intertwines the lives of several women whose paths crisscross...
 
Tags: heartsick batya, batya, jellyfish, carefree slacker reacts, superficial personal dramas, michael, suddenly whiny wife, womens lives, head
 
 
 
 
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Israeli actress nabs plum role in Angels & Demons

2008-04-24 17:01:39 by Polly in Filmsy - Movie Reviews Blog
 
...Israeli actress, has managed to snag the role of Vittoria Vetra in the upcoming Angels & Demons Vetra was previously seen in Steven Spielbergs Munich and also in Vantage Point. Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon along with Ron Howard, who will direct the movie. principal photography will commence this June and the movie is expected to be...
 
Tags: israeli actress, tom hanks returns, vetra, movie, vittoria vetra, ron howard, ayelet zurer, vinci code, principal photography
 
 
 
 
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SFJFF 2008Michael Hawley's Documentary Dozen

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2008-07-22 13:26:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Israeli settlement. Shai Carmeli Pollack's film records a year's worth of resistance to the barrier by Bi'lin villagers, Israeli sympathizers and international activists. Their defiance, however, aside from raising awareness, turns out to be pretty much for naught, as this dispiriting documentary ultimately reveals. If there's any hope to be...
 
Tags: film, jewish film festival, film focuses, revolutionary short film, film lovingly recounts, film documents, jewish, entire film, festival
 
 
 
 
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Four Middle-Eastern Weddings

2008-07-23 23:50:00 by Sachin in Scribbles and Ramblings
 
...Israeli politicians come up with a new scheme to legalize their occupation. They decide to start stamping an Israeli exit visa for people crossing Golan Heights into Syria and use Mona as a guinea pig by stamping her passport. If the Syrian side accepts the stamped passport, then the practice will become a standard and will be deemed as an...
 
Tags: mona, bride mona, syrian guard, guard, syrian, syrian bride, israeli, golan heights, israeli territory
 
 
 
 
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McGraw Hill: Bad Textbook

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2007-09-05 15:16:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...Israeli annexation of parts of the city in the 1980s. Also at issue is the question of who decides a state's capital: that state, or the international community Regardless, our map takes the Israeli-America stance What's interesting about this is that only a few months ago the BBC ran a report in which it called Jerusalem the capital of...
 
Tags: mcgraw hill, capital city, capital, standard history text, history text, question israel, question, city, mcgraw hill map
 
 
 
 
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The music of diplomacy

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2008-03-10 22:10:17 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
...Israeli film had appeared on the list for best foreign film at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards. In fact, by the time I saw The Band's Visit , I'd even forgot what country it came from. (Seeing a film blind doesn't always end up well: I remember walking ignorantly into a screening of Relentless decades ago only to suffer through one of Judd...
 
Tags: film, film prior, foreign film, israeli film, film tells, band, film blind, visit, orchestra
 
 
 
 
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More on Stalags.

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2008-04-21 09:58:30 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Israeli documentary that explores a phenomenon of the early 1960s that was all over Israeli news kiosks at the time, but is little-known today - a genre of pulp-porn "memoirs," called "Stalags," in which female Nazi SS officers preyed with whips and other instruments of sadomasochistic torture on Allied prisoners of war in concentration...
 
Tags: stalags, israeli news kiosks, concentration camps, provide sexual services, journalist ari libsker, camps, entry, israeli youth, comments
 
 
 
 
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Portland Film Fest Review: Beaufort

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2008-02-19 00:00:00 by Eric D. Snider in Cinematical