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Book Review: “Inbound Marketing”

March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Business, Culture, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Technology, The Boston Globe, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/book-review-inbound-marketing/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — If you build it, they will come. And by “it,” the authors of “Inbound Mar­ket­ing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs” mean a qual­ity online-presence sup­ported by effec­tive Internet-marketing.
In the olden days of mar­ket­ing — say, before 2000 — most mar­keters and public-relations pro­fes­sion­als used […]

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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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Lonely Women

January 24th, 2010 · 33 Comments · Boston, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Israel, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sex

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/lonely-women/’,size:‘large’} BOSTON — Richard Whit­mire, author of “Why Boys Fail,” has an inter­est­ing arti­cle in the Wall Street Jour­nal based on find­ings of a recent Pew Research Cen­ter report on dat­ing:
Rachel Down­tain is a telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions project man­ager who says her friends would describe her as tall, slen­der, fit and active. […]

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Buying a Drink

January 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Culture, Dating, Feminism, Massachusetts, Personal, Sex

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/20/buying-a-drink/’,size:‘large’} HALIFAX, Canada — I flew to this Cana­dian town to attend a con­fer­ence of the North Amer­i­can Street News­pa­per Asso­ci­a­tion in 2006 while I was Editor-in-Chief of Spare Change News in Boston, and the great­est les­son at the sem­i­nar actu­ally came from a bar in the city.
While some of my […]

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Shomer Negiah Questions

January 9th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Boston, Culture, Dating, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Religion, Sex, Talmud, Torah

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/09/shomer-negiah-questions/’,size:‘large’} BOSTON — So, sev­eral years ago, I was on a date with a won­der­ful girl. The evening was amaz­ing — a tasty din­ner, a few drinks, and great con­ver­sa­tion. We were laugh­ing and jok­ing. Every­thing was going extremely well.
Then, after she vol­un­teered to give me a lift to my […]

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New Writer: Jeff Guevin

January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Administrative, Blogosphere, Boston, Massachusetts, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/06/new-writer-jeff-guevin/’,size:‘large’} Way back in Boston, I would always sit in dorm rooms or over pints in pubs and dis­cuss every­thing from pol­i­tics to reli­gion to phi­los­o­phy to busi­ness with my friend Jeff. Now, years later, it is my plea­sure to announce that he has joined Con­sid­er­a­tions as a co-writer. We […]

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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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Sunbelt to Snowbelt?

January 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Religion

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/01/sunbelt-to-snowbelt/’,size:‘large’} Many Amer­i­cans began mov­ing to the south­ern and west­ern parts of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s due, in part, to the inven­tion of cen­tral air-conditioning. It made life there bear­able in the sum­mer.
In ret­ro­spect, this caused a rev­o­lu­tion in U.S. pol­i­tics that would res­onate for decades. […]

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Book Review: “The Kuzari,” An Introduction

December 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Bible, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Christianity, Education, Europe, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Massachusetts, Palestine, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science, Talmud, The Middle East, Torah

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/26/book-review-the-kuzari-an-introduction/’,size:‘large’} First in a series
A Pref­ace
BOSTON — When I was Editor-in-Chief and Pub­lisher of Spare Change News, a non-profit news­pa­per that cov­ered social-justice issues includ­ing poverty and home­less­ness while pro­vid­ing jobs sell­ing the pub­li­ca­tion to home­less peo­ple, I attended a local, Passover seder in Cam­bridge for home­less peo­ple.
Local Jews had […]

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Being an Early-Riser

December 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Boston, Business, Education, Entertainment, Health, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Personal, Religion, Science, Sports

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/being-an-early-riser/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Ever since I can remem­ber, I have always wanted to stay up late and sleep in late. It was not out of a desire to slack-off and party (even in high school) — it was merely because I always had so much to do. I would stay […]

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Moving to Israel

December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Essays, Europe, Globalization, Health, Immigration, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Language, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/23/moving-to-israel-2/’,size:‘large’} Eighth in a series of essays
JERUSALEM — In an edi­to­r­ial, the Jerusalem Post cor­rectly points out the rea­son that more Amer­i­can Jews do not move to Israel:
THE OBSTACLE to Amer­i­can aliya [mov­ing to Israel] is not finan­cial. It is cul­tural. Amer­i­can Jews live their Jew­ish lives dif­fer­ently from anyone […]

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Red Sox vs. Yankees

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Baseball, Boston, Food, Israel, Massachusetts, Personal, Red Sox, Sports, The Middle East

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RISHON LEZION, Israel — The Boston Red Sox and the New York Yan­kees will play on Open­ing Day on April 4. I am eager for revenge because, after the World Series vic­tory by the Evil Empire, I owe a friend a steak din­ner at El Gau­cho in Israel.

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Muslim Veils

December 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Boston, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Fashion, Feminism, Islam, Massachusetts, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/14/muslim-veils/’,size:‘large’} Here is one Boston­ian woman’s expe­ri­ence — good and bad — with wear­ing a hijab in pub­lic.
Adden­dum: Many Jew­ish women would agree with her com­ments on the ben­e­fits of mod­est clothing.

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Chanukah 2009/5770

December 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Bible, Boston, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Israel, Judaism, Law, Liberal Pundits, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/11/chanukah-20095770/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — The Jew­ish hol­i­day of Chanukah begins at sun­down today. Here are two past writ­ings of mine on the topic: Is Chanukah a Right-Wing Hol­i­day? and Chanukah and Christo­pher Hitchens.
I also wanted to post another orig­i­nal writ­ing. This is a short paper I wrote while I was a […]

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On Sarah Palin

November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/11/25/on-sarah-palin/’,size:‘large’} BELLEVILLE, Illi­nois — I know more than a few con­ser­v­a­tive, hard-right women here in the mid­west­ern United States, and many of them dis­like the 2008 Repub­li­can vice-presidential can­di­date as much as your typ­i­cal Boston­ian lib­eral.
I never under­stood why. But then I read this reader’s com­ment to Andrew Sul­li­van on […]

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