Stories like this warm my cynical heart, but I fear that Urban Prep Charter Academy is based on a faulty premise: Chicago’s Urban Prep Charter Academy has a mission — for its students to graduate and succeed in college. Now, for the first graduating class at the high school, it’s mission accomplished. All 107 seniors […]
Entries Tagged as 'India'
College Versus Trade School
March 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Globalization, India, Politics
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One Year Later
November 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, India, Islam, Judaism, Religion, War on Terror
Rabbi Gabi Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, were murdered a year ago during the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Here is Chabad’s tribute to them… Continue reading
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Leading, Lagging Indicators
September 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Business, China, Economics, Europe, India, Israel, Politics, The Middle East
The U.S. unemployment rate has inched closer to ten percent, but as one analyst notes, there are signs that the worst might be over soon: The continued moderation in the pace of job losses does offer some encouragement on the state of the U.S. labor market. Nevertheless, with the soft economic backdrop, we are likely […]
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Whose Land is Whose?
August 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Culture, Immigration, India, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Russia, Science, The Middle East, War
RISHON LEZION, Israel — Haim Watzman looks at the philosophical assumptions that underpin anti-Zionism and how they relate to the philosophy of land-ownership: [Phillips] Brooks argues that the land on which the state of Israel was created belonged to the Palestinians. Therefore, it is stolen. Therefore, Israel is founded on a crime. Therefore there is […]
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Haggling
May 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Egypt, India, Israel, Personal
The Art of Manliness offers some good advice on haggling in non-Western countries. See here. After living in Israel, as well as visiting Egypt and India, I’d like to think that I’m developing a flair for it myself… Continue reading
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Geography is Destiny
May 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Britain, China, Culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Europe, Globalization, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Oil, Palestine, Politics, Russia, War
Robert Kaplan, writing in Foreign Policy, writes that geography has always laid the foundations for conflict throughout the world in the past and present. The article is your assigned reading for today… Continue reading
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Gabi and Rivka Holtzberg
April 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Bible, India, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Religion, The Middle East, Torah, War on Terror
As you might recall, Rabbi Gabi Holtzberg and his wife, Rivki, were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai, India. Here are their inspiring life stories… Continue reading
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Letter from Israel: Stories from the Desert I
March 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Bible, Britain, Christianity, Culture, Dating, Europe, Feminism, Food, Immigration, India, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Letters from Israel, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, Russia, Sex, The Middle East, Torah, War on Terror
Twelfth in an ongoing series RISHON LEZION, Israel — Here are some anecdotes that I thought people might find interesting. — The Five People You Meet in Israel The Hippie — Most likely a young person who just came back to Israel after spending two years traveling in Latin America or India after finishing their […]
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