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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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Outdated Checks

December 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Britain, Business, Civil Liberties, Economics, Europe, Finance, Israel, Law, Personal, Privacy, Technology, The Middle East

JERUSALEM — Great Britain might phase-out checks in the next sev­eral years: The board of the UK Pay­ments Coun­cil, which over­sees pay­ments strat­egy, is meet­ing to dis­cuss whether the cheque clear­ing sys­tem could end by 2018. Cheques, first writ­ten 350 years ago, are widely regarded by experts as being in ter­mi­nal decline. How­ever, the fail­ure to […]

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Israel and Britain

December 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Britain, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War

JERUSALEM — Rela­tions between Eng­land and Israel might not be as warm as one might think: One of Britain’s most emi­nent his­to­ri­ans has assailed the country’s pol­icy towards Israel, ques­tion­ing why Queen Eliz­a­beth II has vis­ited a host of despotic regimes but has never made an offi­cial visit to the Holy Land. Speak­ing at the Anglo-Israel […]

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