var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/07/new-economics-post-2/’,size:‘large’} I just published a new post on the Return of the Great Depression blog: “The EU’s Sovereign Debt Crisis.”
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New Economics Post
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Britain, Business, Economics, Europe, Finance, Politics
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Speak Hebrew, Not Yiddish
March 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Britain, Business, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Language, Personal, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/speak-hebrew-not-yiddish/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Whenever I hear American or European Jews speaking Ashkenazi Hebrew on the bus or in synagogue, I go nuts. And I shake my head at the growing popularity and revival of Yiddish among some Western Jews:
Although no one knows exactly how many Yiddish speakers there are […]
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Redundant, Oppressed Men
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Health, Israel, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics, The Middle East
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JERUSALEM — The first of a five-part British documentary on the state of men and manliness in modern, Western society:
Men and masculinity are being marginalised. Manly virtues are laughed at, even considered dysfunctional. Men are being edged out of the family, the workplace and wider society as […]
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Globalization of Identity
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Japan, Language, Law, Personal, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/globalized-identity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When I was a pre-teen and teenager, I took tennis lessons at Oak Hill Country Club (now closed) in Belleville, Illinois, and was later on my high school’s team for two years before my newfound passions for journalism and the Model U.N. took more of my time.
My favorite […]
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Book Review: 1948 — The First Arab-Israeli War
January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Book Reviews, Books, Britain, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Egypt, Europe, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/book-review-1948-the-first-arab-israeli-war/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Benny Morris, a professor of history in the Middle-East Studies Department at Ben-Gurion University, is something of an enigma. Himself born in Israel in 1948, the year of the re-founding of the country and the resulting war with neighboring Arab states, Morris is the leading figure in […]
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Psychological Violence: A Response
January 7th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Europe, Feminism, Health, Law, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/07/3618/’,size:‘large’} Sam and his sources, conservative critics, even the venerable BBC, are wildly off-base in his post on psychological violence laws.
We in the US have laws against physical domestic violence, thankfully, partly in consequence of the 20th century movement to give women more rights.
Prior to the development of domestic abuse […]
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Letter from Israel: A Tale of Two Childhoods
January 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Boston, Britain, Business, Culture, Dating, Education, Europe, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sex, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/02/letter-from-israel-a-tale-of-two-childhoods/’,size:‘large’} Seventeenth in an ongoing series
RISHON LEZION, Israel — So I was buying a bottle of soda at a local kiosk, a convenience store, when three ten-year-old boys walked in and asked the owner for some plastic cups. (Kiosks routinely offer them for free whenever someone purchases a bottle of […]
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World in 2025
December 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Britain, Business, China, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Europe, Globalization, Islam, Oil, Politics, Religion, Russia, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/27/world-in-2025/’,size:‘large’} So I recently came across a report written last year by the U.S. National Intelligence Council on what the world may look like in seventeen years. Here is a summary:
The whole international system—as constructed […]
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Outdated Checks
December 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Britain, Business, Civil Liberties, Economics, Europe, Finance, Israel, Law, Personal, Privacy, Technology, The Middle East
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JERUSALEM — Great Britain might phase-out checks in the next several years:
The board of the UK Payments Council, which oversees payments strategy, is meeting to discuss whether the cheque clearing system could end by 2018.
Cheques, first written 350 years ago, are widely regarded by experts as being in terminal decline.
However, the […]
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Israel and Britain
December 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Britain, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/16/israel-and-britain/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Relations between England and Israel might not be as warm as one might think:
One of Britain’s most eminent historians has assailed the country’s policy towards Israel, questioning why Queen Elizabeth II has visited a host of despotic regimes but has never made an official visit to the Holy Land.
Speaking […]
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Islamic Call to Prayer
December 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Feminism, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/07/islamic-call-to-prayer/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Jewish residents of the Holy City are becoming increasingly annoyed by the five-times-a-day calls to prayer broadcast by local mosques:
While recent rioting in and around Jerusalem’s Old City has left religious tensions between the capital’s Muslims and Jews simmering, a new dispute — this time concerning the […]
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FIFA World Cup Predictions">FIFA World Cup Predictions
December 6th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Britain, Culture, Personal, Soccer, Sports, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/06/fifa-world-cup-predictions/’,size:‘large’} Here are the eight groups of four teams each that will play in the 2010 World Cup, and here is the match schedule. The top two teams in each group will make it to the Round of 16.
As I have always said, international soccer is war by other means. […]
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Israeli Settlements
December 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Egypt, Europe, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/01/israeli-settlements/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Law professor David M. Phillips sets the historical and legal record straight on how Israeli settlements are not a violation of international law:
Though routinely referred to nowadays as “Palestinian” land, at no point in history has Jerusalem or the West Bank been under Palestinian Arab sovereignty in […]
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Revealing Clothing
November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/11/25/revealing-clothing/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — British researchers have discovered what sensible men have always known:
Striking the right balance between revealing too much and being too conservative in how much skin is on show has long been a dilemma for women when choosing the right outfit for […]
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The Economic Future
November 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Britain, Business, China, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Egypt, Finance, Law, Liberal Pundits, Politics
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Every American should watch this thirty-minute, non-partisan documentary on the financial apocalypse towards which the United States is heading.
Related: Why My Generation is Pissed Off and The Upcoming Generational War
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