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The End of the Music Album and David Bowie Lyrics

September 2nd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Business, Culture, Entertainment, Marketing, Music, Personal, Politics

For sev­eral decades, there was a trend in pop­u­lar music named the “con­cept album.” Sadly, how­ever, the trend seems to be dying: For decades, the music indus­try has been look­ing to the album charts to estab­lish what made a hit. In the past 10 years, though, album sales have… Continue reading

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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

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 […]

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Improving Journalism Worldwide Despite Political Bias

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Culture, Education, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, The Boston Globe

BOSTON — When I was an edi­to­r­ial assis­tant at the Boston Globe while in col­lege in the sum­mer and fall of 2000, the news­pa­per went through a major redesign. The “Metro” sec­tion was renamed “City & Region” (to improve brand­ing in sub­ur­ban areas). The newsprint, font, and type size were changed (to make the print […]

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Sarit Hadad Lyrics and Israeli-Music Culture

August 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Civil Liberties, Culture, Entertainment, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Language, Music, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

JERUSALEM — From Brit­ney Spears in the United States to Sarit Hadad in Israel to the Ben­daly Fam­ily in Lebanon, every­one seems to like cheesy, pop music. It might be the only thing that these three coun­tries have in com­mon. In a recent episode of the Israeli ver­sion of “Amer­i­can Idol,” pop singer Sarit Hadad […]

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Can Game Dating Help Men to Pick-Up Girls?

August 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East

Roissy in D.C., now Cit­i­zen Rene­gade, usu­ally writes about the “Game” tac­tic of dat­ing for men and how fem­i­nism is pur­port­edly destroy­ing West­ern soci­ety. In a recent post, he rat­tles off dat­ing tips for men. Some of his tips, with my com­men­tary, are below. I have left out many that are vul­gar. Mar­riage coun­selors could […]

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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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