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An Israel-Palestine Partition After Current Negotiations?

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Culture, Egypt, Iran, Islam, Israel, Jihad, Judaism, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

JERUSALEM — I was going to write an analy­sis of the cur­rent Israeli-Palestinian nego­ti­a­tions occur­ring right now in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., but I could not think of any­thing inter­est­ing to say since the present talks are noth­ing more than polit­i­cal the­ater. So, here some inter­est­ing arti­cles after which I will pro­vide fur­ther com­men­tary… Continue reading

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Wives and Concubines in Modern Dating

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Europe, Feminism, Politics, Religion, Sex

The Spear­head (ahem) looks at West­ern soci­ety and sees more and more women pur­port­edly choos­ing to become “mod­ern con­cu­bines”: If one takes a close look at con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can soci­ety, it appears that con­cu­bi­nage is grad­u­ally reassert­ing itself in West­ern cul­ture and law. This is an inevitable result of the idea that men have an obligation […]

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The End of the Music Album and David Bowie Lyrics

September 2nd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Business, Culture, Entertainment, Marketing, Music, Personal, Politics

For sev­eral decades, there was a trend in pop­u­lar music named the “con­cept album.” Sadly, how­ever, the trend seems to be dying: For decades, the music indus­try has been look­ing to the album charts to estab­lish what made a hit. In the past 10 years, though, album sales have… Continue reading

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Letter from Israel: Theories of Poverty in America and Israel

September 1st, 2010 · 16 Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Letters from Israel, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

Twen­ti­eth in an ongo­ing series JERUSALEM — As much as I love work­ing and writ­ing from home dur­ing the day, there is one neg­a­tive: The chil­dren next door. No, I don’t hate kids. Let me explain. Israel is a small, dense coun­try. As a result, most peo­ple live extremely close to each other. The pic­ture at […]

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Improving Journalism Worldwide Despite Political Bias

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Culture, Education, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, The Boston Globe

BOSTON — When I was an edi­to­r­ial assis­tant at the Boston Globe while in col­lege in the sum­mer and fall of 2000, the news­pa­per went through a major redesign. The “Metro” sec­tion was renamed “City & Region” (to improve brand­ing in sub­ur­ban areas). The newsprint, font, and type size were changed (to make the print […]

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Sarit Hadad Lyrics and Israeli-Music Culture

August 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Civil Liberties, Culture, Entertainment, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Language, Music, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

JERUSALEM — From Brit­ney Spears in the United States to Sarit Hadad in Israel to the Ben­daly Fam­ily in Lebanon, every­one seems to like cheesy, pop music. It might be the only thing that these three coun­tries have in com­mon. In a recent episode of the Israeli ver­sion of “Amer­i­can Idol,” pop singer Sarit Hadad […]

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Can Game Dating Help Men to Pick-Up Girls?

August 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East

Roissy in D.C., now Cit­i­zen Rene­gade, usu­ally writes about the “Game” tac­tic of dat­ing for men and how fem­i­nism is pur­port­edly destroy­ing West­ern soci­ety. In a recent post, he rat­tles off dat­ing tips for men. Some of his tips, with my com­men­tary, are below. I have left out many that are vul­gar. Mar­riage coun­selors could […]

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Demographic Factors, Changing Demographics, and Economic Trends

August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Finance, Politics

Mark Steyn has made a liv­ing from his catch­phrase “demo­graph­ics is des­tiny.” He is usu­ally refer­ring to the higher birth-rates of Mus­lims in Europe than native Euro­peans and the continent’s pos­si­ble demo­graphic future as a result. But the phrase may be use­ful in eco­nomic analy­sis as well. Gold­man Sachs recently pub­lished a paper enti­tled “Current […]

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