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New Economics Post

March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Britain, Business, Economics, Europe, Finance, Politics

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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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.
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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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