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Letter from Israel: A Tale of Two Childhoods

January 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Britain, Business, Culture, Dating, Education, Europe, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sex, The Middle East

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 some­thing to drink, but these […]

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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

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 hosted such an […]

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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

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 up late work­ing on home­work for […]

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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

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 else in the world. […]

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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

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 Continue reading

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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

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. Continue reading

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