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Christian Israel

February 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Christianity, Culture, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/27/christian-israel/’,size:‘large’} The Jerusalem Post has unveiled a revamped web­site with a Chris­t­ian sec­tion that con­tains this inter­est­ing arti­cle: “Will Israel Obey God or Man?”

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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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Unemployed Men

February 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Feminism, Israel, Media, Palestine, Personal, Politics, The Middle East, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/19/unemployed-men-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — The Atlantic Monthly looks at the polit­i­cal and cul­tural con­se­quences of the reces­sion that per­vades the West­ern world, and here is an enlight­en­ing excerpt:
In her clas­sic soci­ol­ogy of the Depres­sion, The Unem­ployed Man and His Fam­ily, Mirra Komarovsky vividly describes how job­less­ness strained—and in […]

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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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In the West Bank

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Bible, Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Israel, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/03/in-the-west-bank/’,size:‘large’} MA’ALE ADUMIM, the West Bank — So I was dri­ving with a friend from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv a few months ago, and we came to a secu­rity check­point after twenty min­utes. It was then that I real­ized that we were tak­ing a path dif­fer­ent from the one used […]

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What a Crazy Country

January 14th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Business, Culture, Finance, Humor, Israel, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Personal, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/14/what-a-crazy-country/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — So I went to the bank this morn­ing to open a new account since I had moved back to the Holy City and had become dis­en­chanted with the bank that I had been using (too many ser­vice fees). The whole process took four hours, but I guess […]

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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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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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Airport Security

December 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Israel, Law, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Technology, The Middle East, Traveling, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/31/airport-security/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — The Toronto Star won­ders whether North Amer­i­can air­ports should be “Israeli­fied” to make it eas­ier for pas­sen­gers:
“It is mind­bog­gling for us Israelis to look at what hap­pens in North Amer­ica, because we went through this 50 years ago,” said Rafi Sela, the pres­i­dent of AR Chal­lenges, a […]

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Me and the Palestinian

December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Egypt, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Language, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/29/me-and-the-palestinian/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — So I was stand­ing in front of the McDonald’s just on the out­skirts of the city, wait­ing for a bus back into town. I asked the guy next to me when it would arrive, and then we started talk­ing.
As it turned out, he was a thir­tysome­thing Palestinian […]

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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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Jewish Charity

December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Dating, Education, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Marketing, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/25/jewish-charity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — So I was sit­ting at home when the door­bell rang. I opened the door, and there was a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) man with brochures and dona­tions forms. I knew what was com­ing, but he inter­jected a ques­tion that made me stop before I could shut the door:
“Are you married?” […]

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Another Terrorist Attack

December 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/25/another-terrorist-attack/’,size:‘large’} See here.

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