Posted Writings

Ten-minute introduction - Singers, instrumentalists, jugglers, acrobats, fire breathers and sword swallowers 1) A Vow Good evening. I...

Anatolian saz - photo by Geoffrey Clarfield The Asiks (minstrels) are one of the most distinguished and brilliant communities of...

The Top of the Tide (Jack Butler Yeats, 1955) One of the many meanings of the Irish word “blarney,” now a common word in the English...

Jaffa Gate (Shmuel Katz, 20th C) I decided to walk to the interview. I was about to be offered a job, but I did not know what it was. I...

Ein Karem, Jerusalem Jewish life is noisy and as Israel is the Jewish state par excellence, Israelis are noisy. But it is a joyful noise....

Street in Haifa, photo by Geoffrey Clarfield In the winter of 1980 I had the privilege of teaching Israeli adults English conversation at...

Synagogue, Frankfurt, Germany - photo by Geoffrey Clarfield As Israel is being threatened by both its “friends” like Canada and the UK,...

King David plays his harp-Byzantine mosaic, Israel-photo by Geoffrey Clarfield Israeli popular singer Yuval Raphael recently came in...

Photo by William F. Wheeler Introduction Are political philosophers wrong? Is or was the “state of nature” indeed violent, nasty, brutish...

Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World is a book about the recent anthropological origins of the celebration of unreason that...