Bookmarks tagged with ‘culture’

• Orientalism: Desert Level Music vs. Actual Middle-Eastern Music

  A video that explores the concept of orientalism in Western music, showing how Middle Eastern music is often misrepresented through clichés and stereotypes.

  • culture
  • music

• Rabbinical Despotism, by E. Michael Jones

  E. Michael Jones argues that the Coen brothers’ film A Serious Man is a damning critique of rabbinic Judaism, portraying its leaders as ineffectual and oppressive. Drawing parallels with Enlightenment critic Solomon Maimon, Jones contends that rabbis uphold superstition, prevent truth, and alienate Jews seeking meaning, ultimately warning against uncritical Catholic-Jewish dialogue.

  • culture
  • history
  • judaism
  • politics