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part 1 In this first of a special two-part Tidings program, Pakistani filmmaker Shireen Pasha tells the story of 17th and 18th century Lucknow, a fabled Indian city and its famous courtesan culture that serves as background for Shireen’s documentary about HIMA: (part 2 broadcast on WPKN on October 30, 2019.)
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This, my third Tidings program (broadcast in 2008) was based on actual notes from the journal I kept during my move from Manhattan to Mattituck (1999) after which I shared my odyssey during conversations with three others who described the upheaval and the uplifting experiences of their moves. I wrote: It’s a very big move. It’s the doing of it that’s big, not […]
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John Hill, notable Jungian analyst, at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, talks about apocalyptic psychology in the context of worldwide response to the Mayan calendar’s “end of world” predictions. Despite the fact that these predictions have always proved false, John Hill tells us why they have always been with us and why […]
I made these three new leafages with seeds that dropped from the sycamore trees in my backyard in Mattituck on the North Fork of Long Island.You may remember them as “helicopters” or “whirligigs” from your childhood; you may remember pressing them on the bridge of your nose, secured by the stickiness of the seeds. I […]
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Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Network, talks about an international movement of community-led response to climate change, resource depletion and fossil fuels. Embraced by communities in 34 countries, including 130 (so far) in the US, the Transition model provides a sustainable blueprint for communities learning to grow their own food, generate their own power, build their own […]
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Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange, discusses her new book Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, her recent delegation to Pakistan to express solidarity with the Pakistani people and to protest US drone strikes, the numerous legal, moral and practical issues raised by the proliferation of drone technology and how she and her fellow […]
“Once you know, once you no longer have the luxury of ignorance, you have to take a stand.” – Mother, peaceful protester and protagonist of Just Vision’s new film series Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah My thoughts exactly–as reflected in “An Accidental Activist,” a chapter I am honored to have included in the just published book: Beyond […]
Because I live on the North Fork of the east end of Long Island and because I wanted to record conversations with my neighbors on this unusual spit of land surrounded by water and woods and vineyards that we share. You can listen here. Listen to North Fork Works on the first Wednesday of each month […]
I am honored to be a contributor to this wonderful book in which Jewish activists tell their deeply personal stories about how they came to hold the beliefs they do. I was pleased to review it for Mondoweiss (January 14, 2013).
A summer or two ago, I visited Emily’s homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts, took leaves from her garden and mingled them with her verse to make a new series of leafages. Here is an excerpt from “The Diary of Emily Dickinson” integrated into a leaf from one of the flower beds in her garden. This is “Emily’s […]
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
