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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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Types of Bosses

March 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/types-of-bosses/’,size:‘large’} As I wrote in a prior post, I have had extremely hor­ri­ble bosses in the United States, Europe, and Israel. Now that I own a con­sult­ing busi­ness and have to deal with Excel spread­sheets, pay­rolls, and finan­cial analy­ses, I can see the other side of the coin.
There are many articles […]

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Speak Hebrew, Not Yiddish

March 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Britain, Business, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Language, Personal, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/speak-hebrew-not-yiddish/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When­ever I hear Amer­i­can or Euro­pean Jews speak­ing Ashke­nazi Hebrew on the bus or in syn­a­gogue, I go nuts. And I shake my head at the grow­ing pop­u­lar­ity and revival of Yid­dish among some West­ern Jews:
Although no one knows exactly how many Yid­dish speak­ers there are […]

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Life in Israel

March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Israel, Judaism, Liberal Pundits, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/life-in-israel/’,size:‘large’} Peo­ple always ask me what it’s like in Israel. Since I don’t usu­ally have hours to respond with a nuanced, lengthy dis­cus­sion, I nor­mally boil it down to one sen­tence: “This coun­try is the per­fect com­bi­na­tion of heaven and hell.”
Bradley Burston, a local colum­nist, puts it another way: “Liv­ing in […]

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Marriage — Brain or Heart?

March 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Egypt, Feminism, India, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/marriage-brain-or-heart/’,size:‘large’} Ninth in an ongo­ing series of essays
BANGALORE, India — While I was trav­el­ing to the Sil­i­con Val­ley of the East in Decem­ber 2006 with my Suf­folk Uni­ver­sity M.B.A. class in Boston to study busi­ness there for a week, I popped into a local tourist trap to look at some […]

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New Economics Blog

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Israel, Personal, Politics, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/01/new-economics-blog/’,size:‘large’} I am now a co-blogger on Euro­pean and Mid­dle East eco­nom­ics at the web­site in sup­port of “The Return of the Great Depres­sion” by lib­er­tar­ian, Austrian-school econ­o­mist and polit­i­cal pun­dit Vox Day (blog, col­umn archive).
Of course, I have com­plete free­dom to write what I want, so I encour­age my […]

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Journalism is a Business

February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Humor, Journalism, Marketing, Media, Personal, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/28/journalism-is-a-business/’,size:‘large’} Media Mat­ters for Amer­ica, a lib­eral, media-watchdog orga­ni­za­tion, reflects on how Fox News cov­ered the one-year anniver­sary of the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act:
On the one-year anniver­sary of the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act, Fox & Friends pur­ported to ana­lyze the results of the bill […]

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Animal Rights Trump Human Rights

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Europe, Food, Law, Personal, Philosophy, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/26/animal-rights-trump-human-rights/’,size:‘large’} I love my dog.  I think farm ani­mals should be treated humanely and not spend their lives in fac­tory farms.  Still a new Swiss ani­mal rights law car­ries with it the specter of enforced Jain­ism.
Where does it end?  Will gov­ern­ment some day tell me I can’t eat meat or […]

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Globalization of Identity

February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Japan, Language, Law, Personal, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/globalized-identity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When I was a pre-teen and teenager, I took ten­nis lessons at Oak Hill Coun­try Club (now closed) in Belleville, Illi­nois, and was later on my high school’s team for two years before my new­found pas­sions for jour­nal­ism and the Model U.N. took more of my time.
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Israeli Stupidity

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Finance, Israel, Law, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/israeli-stupidity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — In prior posts, I dis­cussed the frus­tra­tions of deal­ing the bureau­cracy in Israeli cus­tomer-ser­vice. Now, Jonathan Degani, a for­mer MBA class­mate and col­league of mine, pro­vides some sim­i­lar — and, unfor­tu­nately, use­ful — infor­ma­tion:
If you worked more than one job in the past seven years then […]

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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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Big Trouble in Little China

February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/18/big-trouble-in-little-china/’,size:‘large’}
I can­not believe that I had never seen the film until this morn­ing! “Big Trou­ble in Lit­tle China” is def­i­nitely one of my favorites now. Two notes I did not know: The vil­lain seems to be the same actor that played the host in the Chinese-restaurant episode of “Seinfeld,” […]

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Women of the Wall

February 16th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/16/women-of-the-wall/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews ver­bally assaulted a group of women pray­ing at the West­ern Wall, called them “Nazis,” and blamed them for the Holo­caust.
It’s just another exam­ple of the insan­ity that per­vades extrem­ist groups in the Mid­dle East. The group, mem­bers of Women of the Wall […]

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Student-Loan Debt

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Business, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Education, Finance, Law, Liberal Pundits, Personal, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/16/student-loan-debt/’,size:‘large’} The Wall Street Jour­nal reports on a trend in pri­vate debt that will no doubt esca­late dur­ing the Great Reces­sion:
When Michelle Bisutti, a 41-year-old fam­ily prac­ti­tioner in Colum­bus, Ohio, fin­ished med­ical school in 2003, her student-loan debt amounted to roughly $250,000. Since then, it has bal­looned to […]

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