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the arts 1: The art of spin Mark Irving reveals the secret stories of politics and power struggles behind the Medicis' Renaissance masterpieces
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Try to imagine a political climate in which ambitious candidates
for high office showered London with public works of art paid for out
of their own pockets, in which media soundbites and party slogans
were driven by a genuine concern for the aesthetic welfare of the
city, in which politicians embraced contemporary artists instead of
kissing babies. No, not Mao's China, Mitterand's France or even
Blair's Britain. Think further back, 500 years further back, to late
15th-century Florence, when art was at the heart of serious politics.
It was not just a case of being seen to be a public-spirited ...
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Abraham Geiger and Abraham Isaac Kook: Messianism's return to history.(Jewish History)
Magazine article from: Midstream
; Abraham Geiger and Abraham Isaac Kook seem to share little in common but their first names and the fact...opponent of Jewish Orthodoxy, and a German patriot to the core. Kook, a traditionalist, was the moving force and spirit behind Religious...
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Rav Kook's Latvia days
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Post 01-07-2005 Headline: Rav Kook's Latvia days Byline: YEHUDAH...its borders and much else besides. Abraham Isaac Kook, born in 1865 in a shtetl called...oddly flattering regularity. Rav Kook's outstanding significance to Israeli...
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A Matter of Opinion: A Man Who Moved Heaven and Earth; Hillel Kook, aka Peter Bergson, showed American Jews how to stand up and be heard
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent
; ...Who Moved Heaven and Earth; Hillel Kook, aka Peter Bergson, showed American...he came into the world as Hillel Kook, a scion of a great rabbinic dynasty...was, in fact, the revered Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), who became the...
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The Rabbi Kook House
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...08-2009 Headline: The Rabbi Kook House Byline: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi...Lane near Ticho House, the Rabbi Kook House, built in 1872 with a second...his many accomplishments, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was a driving force...
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Not your regular Kook book
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, is his philosophy as...his son Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook continued his teachings...philosophy of both Rav Kooks has proved critical in...through the window of Kook's thought. Thus, for...
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Kooks and Waiters
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...an audience with Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, our first Ashkenazi...Torah principles. Rabbi Kook was not one to be bullied...from the struggle," Kook concluded. "So don...the kitchen of life, Kooks may not always outnumber...
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Hidden diaries and new discoveries: the life and thought of Rabbi A. I. Kook.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Shofar
; ...files encompass R. Kook's writings between...writings. (R. Kook's thoughts between...permit us to see R. Kook's stormy, pained...of [Rabbi Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen...Attributes of [Rabbi Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen...
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Religious Zionism: The future of a lost movement
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...theology of the great Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook is certainly the most...built. Is this really what Abraham Isaac Kook desired? Did Zvi Yehuda Kook's fervent messianic beliefs...It is obvious that both Kooks would never have condoned...
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Religious Zionism, Without Messianism
Newspaper article from: The Jerusalem Report
; ...Zionists to emulate, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook - or simply Rav...of Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah Kook, son of the great visionary. For the younger Kook, the events of June...question the legacy of both Kooks, but especially Tzvi...disturbing about the younger Kook's agenda is its ...
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Darwin is no problem for Jews
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...response to Darwin was offered a century ago by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. Rav Kook, who was to become the chief rabbi of prestate Palestine...step." The problem raised by evolution, said Rav Kook, was based on its conflict with the religious views...
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