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 identifies Israel’s “ten” worst errors of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Civil Liberties'
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
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Islamic Irony
January 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Civil Liberties, Europe, Humor, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, War on Terror
I was waiting for this to happen: The police foiled an attempt to kill an artist who drew a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad that sparked outrage in the Muslim world, the head of Denmark’s intelligence service said Saturday. And I cannot put it any better than the person who submitted this headline to the […]
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Economic Issues: Jobs, Women, and Scarcity
December 27th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Books, Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Feminism, Politics, Sex
Economics, as usually defined, is the study of how societies can allocate scarce resources as efficiently as possible. (The “scarcity” refers to the fact that no society has one-hundred percent of everything it needs, so societies must prioritize and decide what to do.) Here is an example from an old, economics textbook of mine: What […]
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Alleged Terrorism
December 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Islam, Journalism, Law, Media, Politics, War on Terror
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security improperly collected information on U.S. citizens and legal residents. Is anyone surprised? One important thing to watch: How does the federal government define “terrorism” and “terrorist”? It is a slippery slope. Can people who attach hateful bumper-stickers to SUVs be considered “eco-terrorists”? Can the bankers who almost brought down […]
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Civil and Jewish Law
December 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Bible, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Europe, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Talmud, The Middle East, Torah
JERUSALEM — The long-running issue of whether Israel should be a Jewish state based only on ethnicity or on religious law as well recently came to a head again: Justice Minister Yaacov Neeman came under fire Tuesday, after apparently expressing hope that the state’s current legal system will soon be dictated by the Torah… Another former […]
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Human Rights
December 24th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Economics, Europe, Health, Israel, Law, Palestine, Politics, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
JERUSALEM — Peter Tatchell believes that the world should have a human-rights index similar to the ones that measure economic performance and quality of life. I have one question: What is to stop so-called human-rights organizations from instilling their biases against Israel — as the founder of Human Rights Watch admits they have — in […]
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Christian Persecution
December 24th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Liberal Pundits, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
JERUSALEM — Evidently, ultra-Orthodox Jews in the city have been spitting on Christians for years. This is disgusting — in every sense of the word. Continue reading
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Japanese Culture
December 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Entertainment, Europe, Feminism, Health, Japan, Law, Media, Politics, Sex, Technology, War
RISHON LEZION, Israel — Roger Cohen makes some depressing observations on the land of the rising setting sun: …I’m not aware of any other nation where fantasy, escapism and the cyber world have fused with such intensity. Indeed, there’s a Japanese word, otaku, denoting a whole universe of monomaniacal geek-like obsession, whether with an electronic […]
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