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Allon

Aug 25, 20236 min read

031~ Lily

I was lucky to re-encounter a first-hand Holocaust survivor during my adult dive into Holocaust studies. She had a tattooed number on her...

Allon

Aug 18, 20234 min read

030~ As long as in the heart within...

I can't count the times I've sung the Israeli Anthem. Gazillion, maybe? I never found it fun or uplifting... I don't think it has to be...

029~ Appropriation gives no Satisfaction

Allon

Aug 11, 20234 min read

029~ Appropriation gives no Satisfaction

Casual Sidewalk Berlin 2008 Back in 2008, during my first visit to Berlin, a lot of turmoil was raging within my unsettled mind due to...

Allon

Aug 4, 20236 min read

028~ Standing on both sides

The Wall 2008 I read 'The Nazi and the Barber' for the first time back in 1994, at the age of 21 just finishing my army service, I got my...

027~ Never again to us? or never again...period?

Allon

Jul 28, 20235 min read

027~ Never again to us? or never again...period?

I came across Yehuda Elkana's writings in the early stages of gathering material to assist in provoking my thoughts. In his article "The...

Allon

Jul 14, 20233 min read

025~ Revenge is a swinging Pendulum

Well, standing in front of the devastated reconstructions in Berlin has opened my ability to seek answers and realize the inevitable...

024~ Meaningful coincidences and second chances 🤷

Allon

Jul 7, 20232 min read

024~ Meaningful coincidences and second chances 🤷

In 2015, we moved to a bigger rented place. With our second child coming into our lives, we needed more space. A project that had been...

023~ Doda Ella or The wrong introduction to historical events

Allon

Jun 30, 20233 min read

023~ Doda Ella or The wrong introduction to historical events

Associations on the edge of a flower bed in the fields. Babysitting "Doda Ella" (Aunty Ella) was one of the chores I dreaded the most. I...

022~ Hysteria is not a good working plan

Allon

Jun 23, 20233 min read

022~ Hysteria is not a good working plan

While I was traveling in Germany in 2013, capturing the images I carefully planned for the journey - sketches I had prepared at home, I...

021~ Post delegation reflections - Comic reliefs...

Allon

Jun 16, 20233 min read

021~ Post delegation reflections - Comic reliefs...

I got a few opportunities to work with young students who have just come back from the visit to Poland. The kids seemed as if they have...

020~ Photography as an ultimate tool in workshops

Allon

Jun 9, 20232 min read

020~ Photography as an ultimate tool in workshops

One of the reasons photography is such an amazing tool, when used properly is it's amazing variety in application. For so many of us, who...

019~ Student Works from workshops part 2

Allon

Jun 2, 20232 min read

019~ Student Works from workshops part 2

I never know what seminar participants may come up with. I do encourage them to think with the camera and outside the box. I am a strong...

018~ Teaching Photography on Holocaust Memorial Day

Allon

May 26, 20233 min read

018~ Teaching Photography on Holocaust Memorial Day

In Israel, I used to teach for many years in "Gifted Children Centers." 15 years ago, on the day of the Holocaust Memorial Day, I had the...

Allon

May 17, 20233 min read

017~ Soap Myth? or Soap Opera?

Well did they? or did they not make Jew fragrant soap? If to sum it up ...According to some evidence given in a trial held regarding this...

014~ It Ain't Bridging if you cross sides

Allon

Apr 28, 20237 min read

014~ It Ain't Bridging if you cross sides

Back in 2010, as I was advancing slowly but surely with the attempts to make sense of it all and still suppressing the idea of sharing my...

013~ A fluid, interactive Vs. solid one- directional memory (Part 3)

Allon

Apr 22, 20234 min read

013~ A fluid, interactive Vs. solid one- directional memory (Part 3)

As I mentioned in my earlier post, my visit to the Yad Vashem memorial "replica" provoked a moment of realization. The discovery of the...

011~ The Difference between the 'identical' Monument is key (Part 1)

Allon

Apr 7, 20231 min read

011~ The Difference between the 'identical' Monument is key (Part 1)

The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, by Natan Rapoport, commemorating the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, is placed in two locations:...

009~ Only a Ginger can call another Ginger- Ginger

Allon

Mar 24, 20234 min read

009~ Only a Ginger can call another Ginger- Ginger

Well... I'm in this too deep now, and I want to share another dumb one-liner - a stupid, misunderstood word that I remember haunting me...

008~ Stopping the madness back in 1936...

Allon

Mar 17, 20233 min read

008~ Stopping the madness back in 1936...

Olympic Stadium 2008 Lomography Back in 2008, Neta and I decided to go and check out the Olympic Stadium, where all those Leni...

007~ Gas...the answers were blowing in the wind

Allon

Mar 10, 20233 min read

007~ Gas...the answers were blowing in the wind

When I visited the USA for the first time at the age of 21, I had an icon I needed to see, which for me symbolized the United States! Not...

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