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Joel Tauber

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Activist. Artist. Filmmaker. Wake Forest University Professor. Descendent of rabbis. Ethics. Environment. Discourse. Also: baseball - Red Sox, basketball - Celtics, nature - birds & trees. https://joeltauber.com/

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Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

It’s day 21 of my journey as an urban shepherd, and I’m growing very attached to Sarah and Rebecca. Here’s an update from the project, Seeking Pasture, which will become a movie and art installation: seekingpasture.net/2025/11/13/d...

#seekingpasture

14.11.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

It’s day 14 of my journey as an urban shepherd with Sarah and Rebecca.

The project will become a movie and art installation called Seeking Pasture about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us:
seekingpasture.net/2025/11/04/d...

#seekingpasture

06.11.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Yatha Katha International Film & Literature Festival is a celebration of cinema & literature – 2021 | Yatha Katha International Film & Literature Festival is a celebration of cinema & literature -2021

My film, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, is screening tomorrow (Nov 7) at 12:45 pm at the Yathakatha International Film & Literature Festival at SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Mumbai

The movie is nominated for Best Experimental Film

www.yathakatha.com

06.11.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seeking Pasture Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

And I find myself wondering, as Sarah and Rebecca seemingly are as well, why all those things are necessary.

#seekingpasture

Seeking Pasture will be a movie and art installation: seekingpasture.net

04.11.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's been wonderful exploring the city with Sarah and Rebecca. Looking at everything with fresh eyesβ€”sort of like what it felt like when I was a dad of very young kids. They are startled by the cars and other machines that we encounter, including the many lawnmowers and leaf blowers.

04.11.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And I’m with them for every minute, guiding them, shepherding them; and linked to them via their woolen halters. We begin each dayβ€”early!β€”by grazing in the yard in our home. Then we start walking, searching for additional pasture.

04.11.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Joel Tauber has become an urban shepherd to raise conversation about our relationships to our grass, yards, and ecosystems.

Joel Tauber has become an urban shepherd to raise conversation about our relationships to our grass, yards, and ecosystems.

It's day twelve of my journey as an urban shepherd with Sarah and Rebecca. It's been an intense and beautiful process so far! Sarah and Rebecca are seemingly always hungry. They want to eat for 5-6 hours a day, at least!

04.11.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seeking Pasture Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

Seeking Pasture will be a movie and art installation about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us. Stay tuned as the project continues to develop!

#seekingpasture

seekingpasture.net

28.10.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We only ask that you keep any chemical fertilizers and pesticides away. We wouldn’t want to hurt Sarah or Rebecca, after all! God only knows what impact we’ve had on our environment and our collective health already.

28.10.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you live within walking distance to us, here in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, consider this lawn mowing alternative. I will happily walk on over to you, with Sarah and Rebecca.

28.10.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So, cast your lawn mowers and leaf blowers aside! Who needs those noisy, polluting things anyway! Let’s go old-school and think, anew, about our relationship to grass and to our environment.

28.10.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

My new sheep companions, Sarah and Rebecca, are seeking pasture. And they would love to graze on the grass in your yards and to nibble on other yummy tiny green plants that they find thereβ€”plants that we too easily dismiss as weeds.

28.10.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing. Trailer. An exploration of the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta (heated discourse and constructive debate) and a portrait of one of its great practitioners: the Gaon (genius)…

My film, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, is screening at the 2025 Alibag Short Film Festival. The festival is happening on October 5, from 8 am to 5 pm, at Sandy’s Hotel in Alibag, India.

Here’s the trailer: vimeo.com/joeltauber/r...

03.10.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watch Sick Amour: A Love Story | Prime Video A celebration of the forlorn and lonely Tree that Joel Tauber adopts in the middle of a giant parking lot. Filmed over the course of 18 years, the movie paints a multi-faceted portrait of the Tree via a series of interviews with experts in different fields; while it chronicles Tauber's efforts to improve the Tree's life.

My first feature film,Β Sick-Amour: A Love Story,Β is streaming onΒ AmazonΒ and Vimeo OTT.Β And I would love it if you watched the movie.

It’s a documentary and love story that celebrates the forlorn and lonely Tree that I adopted in the middle of a giant parking lot.

www.amazon.com/Sick-Amour-S...

19.09.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So grotesque. The rise of antisemitism is appalling.

10.07.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A really important article. Empathy is foundational to leading an ethical life. If we continue to destruct whatever empathic and ethical tendencies and structures that we have, then we are collectively doomed. We have to build a society built on ethics, and we have a long way to go.

01.07.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for this really important article. Empathy is foundational to leading an ethical life. If we continue to destruct whatever empathic and ethical tendencies and structures that we have, then we are collectively doomed. We have to build a society built on ethics, and we have a long way to go.

01.07.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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California Officials Criticize Trump’s National Guard Deployment to LA Protests State and local officials warned that the National Guard’s presence could escalate protests, while Republican lawmakers blamed state leadership for the clashes.

Many California officials have condemned President Trump’s move to send National Guard members to Los Angeles.

08.06.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 292    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 4
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Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing. Trailer. An exploration of the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta (heated discourse and constructive debate) and a portrait of one of its great practitioners: the Gaon (genius)…

Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good ThingΒ is premiering at the Pune Short Film Festival. The festival is happening June 2-7 at Lokayat on Karve Road in Pune, India.

Here's the trailer for the project:
vimeo.com/joeltauber/r...

(Part 4/4)

#discourse #debate #arguing #chavruta #conversation

31.05.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the film, I visit the grave of my great-great-great-great-grandfather, the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda AszΓ³d (1796-1866), who was once the head rabbi of Hungary. I engage in an immersiveΒ form of chavruta dialog with him. And I seek a greater understanding of this form of communication.

(Part 3/4)

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Not to win an argument or to prove that a particularΒ view is correct, but rather a methodology of talkingβ€”togetherβ€”about ideas over a prolonged period of time. For the sake of learning. For the sake of ethics. And for the sake of the truth.

(Part 2/4)

31.05.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Joel Tauber’s film and art installation, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, explores the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta: heated discourse and constructive debate.

Joel Tauber’s film and art installation, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, explores the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta: heated discourse and constructive debate.

I've been thinking a lot about how we can engage in real conversation in our time of deep division. So, I've made a project about it. It's a film and art installation focused on the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta: heated discourse and constructive debate.

(Part 1/4)

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Dia Art Foundation Dia Art Foundation is a contemporary arts organization with locations in Beacon, New York, and the American West.

3 art project highlights from my visit to NYC yesterday:
β€’ Steve McQueen at Dia Chelsea
β€’ Thomas Demand at Mathew Marks Gallery
β€’ Max Neuhaus’ Times Square sound installation (1977)

www.diaart.org/exhibition/e...

matthewmarks.com/exhibitions/...

www.diaart.org/visit/visit-...

24.05.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is repugnant and terrifying

27.04.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Big turnout for the #handsoff rally in Winston-Salem, NC yesterday. It was so encouraging to see so many people there. Yes, our democracy is under assault. Yes, there’s big trouble on many fronts. But there’s also hope. We can turn things around. #democracynotoligarchy #resist

06.04.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Big rally in Winston-Salem, NC yesterday. #democracynotoligarchy #resist

06.04.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hands Off! Winston-Salem, NC Fights Back Β· Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** We are fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands onβ€”our health care, our data, our jobs, our servicesβ€”and da...

Rally tomorrow in Winston-Salem from 2-4 pm. #democracynotoligarchy
#resist

www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

04.04.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Demonstration on Green Street Pedestrian Bridge Β· Forsyth County Democratic Party Banners have been made to hold up on the Green Street pedestrian bridge. Bring your own signs if you want (make them big enough to be seen by cars on Salem Parkway), wave at commuters to remind them ...

Rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Monday at 4:30. Event organized by the Forsyth County Democratic Party. On the Green Street pedestrian bridge overlooking the Interstate 40 highway:
www.mobilize.us/forsythcount...

24.03.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Demonstration on Green Street Pedestrian Bridge Β· Forsyth County Democratic Party Banners have been made to hold up on the Green Street pedestrian bridge. Bring your own signs if you want (make them big enough to be seen by cars on Salem Parkway), wave at commuters to remind them ...

Yes, here’s an updated link:
www.mobilize.us/forsythcount...

24.03.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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