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Divided Jerusalem

February 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Boston, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/22/divided-jerusalem/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — An city gov­ern­ment offi­cial recently made an announce­ment that is real­is­ti­cally true in terms of Mid­dle East peace:
Yakir Segev, who holds the East Jerusalem port­fo­lio in the Jerusalem munic­i­pal­ity, made an unchar­ac­ter­is­tic remark on Fri­day, declar­ing that the Pales­tin­ian neigh­bor­hood east of the sep­a­ra­tion fence were “no […]

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TSA Insanity">TSA Insanity

February 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Islam, Israel, Law, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/15/tsa-insanity/’,size:‘large’} Sto­ries like this make me grate­ful for the secu­rity mea­sures taken by El Al, Israel’s main air­line:
Ryan was tak­ing his first flight, to Walt Dis­ney World, for his fourth birth­day.
The boy is devel­op­men­tally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks pre­ma­turely. His ankles are […]

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Racism and Outsiders

February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anti-Semitism, Boston, Civil Liberties, Culture, Education, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/11/racism-and-outsiders/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Fore­cast Highs, writ­ten by the news edi­tor of the Jerusalem Post, notes the results of a recent poll on racism towards Jews:
In the pre­dom­i­nantly Mus­lim nations sur­veyed, views of Jews were over­whelm­ingly unfa­vor­able. Nearly all in Jor­dan (97 per­cent), the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ries (97%) and Egypt […]

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West-Bank Settlements

February 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/09/west-bank-settlements-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Hil­lel Halkin makes a not-so-modest pro­posal for peace in the Mid­dle East:
There is one obvi­ous solu­tion for Israel’s West Bank set­tle­ments that has been all but com­pletely over­looked: Let the set­tlers con­tinue liv­ing where they are, but in the state of Pales­tine.
As a con­cep­tion, it’s […]

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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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On Dogma

January 20th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Christianity, Islam, Philosophy, Religion, Torah, Torah Commentaries

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/20/on-dogma/’,size:‘large’} Sam’s com­ment on my post On Reli­gion­ism, raises a valid point: just what, exactly, is reli­gion with­out dogma?  Two reli­gions may offer the key to under­stand­ing: Uni­tar­ian Uni­ver­sal­ism and the Bahá‘í Faith.
Dogma is often, at least among Chris­tians, suc­cinctly stated in a creed. Islam, too, has a creed, […]

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Religious Law

January 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Iran, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/08/religious-law/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — The oppo­si­tion move­ment in Iran now has a reli­gious dimen­sion:
The deci­sion to defrock a dis­si­dent aya­tol­lah – widely con­sid­ered to wear the man­tle of spir­i­tual leader of the oppo­si­tion – has pried open con­flicts within the Islamic Republic’s reli­gious core.
The Qom The­o­log­i­cal Lec­tur­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, a regime-aligned group­ing of […]

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Keffiyeh Fashion

January 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Advertising, Anti-Semitism, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Europe, Fashion, Iran, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Marketing, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/06/keffiyeh-fashion/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — In the Mid­dle East, every­thing is polit­i­cal. Even fash­ion. Now, the Jew­ish com­pany Shem­speed is offer­ing a kef­fiyeh that is an Israeli take on a tra­di­tional, Arab piece of cloth­ing:
The Israeli Kef­fiyeh, with its intri­cate Star of David pat­tern in the cen­ter piece, and words AM ISRAEL CHAI (Jewish […]

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The Misandry Bubble

January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, Sex

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/04/the-misandry-bubble/’,size:‘large’} Here is your required read­ing for the day. Here is the nut graph:
The West­ern World has qui­etly become a civ­i­liza­tion that under­val­ues men and over­val­ues women, where the state forcibly trans­fers resources from men to women cre­at­ing var­i­ous per­verse incen­tives for oth­er­wise good women to con­duct great evil against men and children, […]

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Decade-Roundup from Israel

January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Hizbollah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Lebanon, Liberal Pundits, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/02/decade-roundup-from-israel/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Ste­fanie Gard­ner looks at how media has changed in the United States and Israel (but leaves out the suc­cess of Fox News and Israel’s first, free daily, “Israel Today”). Liat Collins says Israel went through a “boom-and-bust” decade. Car­o­line Glick calls is a “low-and-dishonest” decade. Bradley Burston […]

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Islamic Irony

January 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Civil Liberties, Europe, Humor, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/02/islamic-irony/’,size:‘large’} I was wait­ing for this to hap­pen:
The police foiled an attempt to kill an artist who drew a car­toon depict­ing the Prophet Muham­mad that sparked out­rage in the Mus­lim world, the head of Denmark’s intel­li­gence ser­vice said Sat­ur­day.
And I can­not put it any bet­ter than the per­son who submitted […]

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Sports and Politics

January 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Culture, Humor, Iran, Islam, Israel, Politics, Soccer, Sports, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/01/sports-and-politics/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — In the Mid­dle East, every­thing is polit­i­cal. Even sports. Israel’s par­lia­ment, the Knes­set, held an inquiry into why the country’s soc­cer team failed to qual­ify for the World Cup, and the Iran­ian soc­cer asso­ci­a­tion made a diplo­matic snafu by acci­den­tally send­ing New Year’s greet­ings to the Israeli […]

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Religious Competition

December 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Business, Christianity, Culture, Economics, Education, Islam, Judaism, Marketing, Politics, Religion, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/30/religious-competition/’,size:‘large’} The Pew Forum on Reli­gion and Pub­lic Life dis­cov­ers a trend that is not too sur­pris­ing in the Age of Glob­al­iza­tion:
When it comes to reli­gion, many Amer­i­cans like the mix-and-match, build-your-own approach.
Large num­bers attend ser­vices of tra­di­tions other than their own and blend Chris­tian­ity with East­ern and New Age […]

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Al-Qaeda Magazine

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Islam, Journalism, Marketing, Media, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/30/al-qaeda-magazine/’,size:‘large’} Did you know the ter­ror­ist group has an online pub­li­ca­tion? Nei­ther did I. Here is a Slate arti­cle on “Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Bat­tles).”
Ear­lier: I dis­cuss the best way to use tech­nol­ogy to fight Islamic extremism.

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Iranian Protests

December 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Civil Liberties, Iran, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/30/iranian-protests/’,size:‘large’} Aya­tol­lah Kadi­var, a critic of the Iran­ian regime, believes that the gov­ern­ment will col­lapse. Read the inter­est­ing inter­view here.

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