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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Globalization'
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
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Barack “Hussein” Obama, Birthplace, and Globalization
August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
JERUSALEM — David P. Goldman, a.k.a. Spengler, argues that the “debate” whether Barack Obama is a Christian or Muslim misses the real point: Today’s Google News leads with a new poll showing that 18% of Americans think that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. Only 34% of Americans think he is a Christian, down from… […]
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Gypsy News: France Expels Many Romany Gypsies
August 21st, 2010 · 16 Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Feminism, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion
LONDON — Europe is starting to get sick of modern-day Gypsies: More than 100 Gypsies, or Roma, were put on a charter flight to their native Romania on Friday, the second day in a row that France has expelled Roma in a much-criticized government crackdown… President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the crackdown on Roma in late […]
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Changing Accents and World Politics
August 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Culture, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Islam, Israel, Personal, Politics, The Middle East
JERUSALEM — In an era of globalization, has your accent changed when you speak English (or any other language)? It may be likely: American researchers have found human brains imitate the speech patterns of other people, even complete strangers, without meaning to. Their findings, reported in the journal Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, concluded this happens when […]
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Economic Issues: Smarter than a Fifth-Grader
June 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Education, Finance, Globalization, Law, Personal, Politics
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed column, Daniel Klein makes the case that conservatives understand economics better than liberals: Zogby researcher Zeljka Buturovic and I considered the 4,835 respondents’ (all American adults) answers to eight survey questions about basic economics. We also asked the respondents about their political leanings: progressive/very liberal; liberal; moderate; conservative; very […]
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Debt and Economics in Israel
April 26th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Entertainment, Finance, Globalization, Israel, Law, Marketing, Personal, Politics, The Middle East
JERUSALEM — Jonathan Degani, a former MBA classmate of mine from Bar-Ilan University, has some cautionary words on the marketing of debt and loans in Israel: During [Passover], when I saw How to Train your Dragon (which was a fantastic movie and worthwhile to see in 3-D), I saw a commercial for an Israeli credit […]
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Globalization and Sports
April 18th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Baseball, Boston, Britain, Culture, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Massachusetts, Personal, Red Sox, Sports, The Middle East, Traveling
JERUSALEM — Joe Queenan seemingly dislikes foreign fans of sports teams (those who who are not from the cities of those teams): I do not object to Yankees fans in principle, so long as they are homegrown, preferably natives of the Bronx or Yonkers. (Yankees fans born in Queens or Brooklyn, it goes without saying, […]
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Replace Religion With… What?
April 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Jihad, Politics, Religion, Sex, terrorism
“Theology is a device for helping agnostics to stay within the Church of England.” — the British television show “Yes, (Prime) Minister” In most science-fiction television shows and movies ranging from “Star Trek” to “Doctor Who” to “Firefly,” religion is shown in the future as non-existent at best or as an outdated relic of primitive […]
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