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James AG (Ya'akov ben Avraham v'Sarah)

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A Personal Reflection on Exile and Redemption 5784

Heeding the redemptive call of Jewish nationhood and unity

6 min readMay 21, 2024

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A Personal Reflection on Exile and Redemption 5784

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Blazing Saddles: Scoring One Off the Old West

An old-school comedy that demonstrates that blunt, direct humour is sometimes the best tonic

4 min readApr 3, 2024

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Blazing Saddles: Scoring One Off the Old West

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Gridlock’d: Stuck at the Intersection of Dope Fiends, Bureaucracy and Comedy Crime Capers

An underappreciated and neatly comical look at the ring-a-round of inner-city bureaucracy

6 min readMay 10, 2024

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Gridlock’d: Stuck at the Intersection of Dope Fiends, Bureaucracy and Comedy Crime Capers

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Bad Education: Unpeeling the Layers of Sexual Taboos and Traumas

Pedro Almodovar’s exploration of forbidden desires and ensuing trauma makes for a compelling but bleak watch

4 min readMay 1, 2024

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Bad Education: Unpeeling the Layers of Sexual Taboos and Traumas

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Pesach 2024/5784: Become a Fighting Jew for freedom and dignity

Not in my lifetime has the principle of Pesach — freedom — been as urgent and vital as it is today

4 min readApr 26, 2024

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Pesach 2024/5784: Become a Fighting Jew for freedom and dignity

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Tony Benn — Will and Testament: A very watchable exercise in cinematic self-mythologising

An engaging, moving journey through the life of one of Britain’s great political mavericks

6 min readApr 22, 2024

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Tony Benn — Will and Testament: A very watchable exercise in cinematic self-mythologising

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Hotel Rwanda: Walking With Humanity Through the Valley of Death

Terry George’s dramatization is a gripping tale of resourcefulness amid a sea of evil

6 min readApr 15, 2024

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Hotel Rwanda: Walking With Humanity Through the Valley of Death

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James AG (Ya'akov ben Avraham v'Sarah)

Religious Zionism and Arab-Israeli patriotism

Recent reflections on literature and a talk which have further deepened my connection to Am/Eretz Yisrael

5 min readApr 8, 2024

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Religious Zionism and Arab-Israeli patriotism

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Keeping the Faith: Spirituality in the Sounds of Michael Jackson

The King of Pop was as much a musical maestro for the spirit and soul as much grooving and moonwalking

10 min readMar 3, 2024

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Keeping the Faith: Spirituality in the Sounds of Michael Jackson

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The Birth of a Nation: My Reckoning with D.W. Griffith’s Grand, Racist Cinematic Spectacle

D.W. Griffith’s ground-breaking silent cinema epic is a technical and historical cinematic marvel, albeit with a reprehensibly racist core

9 min readFeb 22, 2024

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The Birth of a Nation: My Reckoning with D.W. Griffith’s Grand, Racist Cinematic Spectacle

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James AG (Ya'akov ben Avraham v'Sarah)

James AG (Ya'akov ben Avraham v'Sarah)

Black British Jew-by-choice sharing his thoughts with the world. Writing on films, music, literature and Jewish themes.

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