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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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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

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 […]

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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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Jewish Charity

December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Dating, Education, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Marketing, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

JERUSALEM — So I was sit­ting at home when the door­bell rang. I opened the door, and there was a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) man with brochures and dona­tions forms. I knew what was com­ing, but he inter­jected a ques­tion that made me stop before I could shut the door: “Are you mar­ried?” (Did he hear some­how that […]

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Year One

December 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Bible, Christianity, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Israel, Judaism, Language, Personal, Religion, The Middle East, Torah

BELLEVILLE, Illi­nois — So while I was vis­it­ing my fam­ily over Thanks­giv­ing, we watched the movie “Year One” star­ring Jack Black. It was a comedic retelling of the bib­li­cal events from Cre­ation to the destruc­tion of Sodom and Gemorah from the point of view of non-Hebrew pro­tag­o­nists. For any­one who saw the movie and speaks […]

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Holiday Season

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Christianity, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Marketing, Media, Religion, Technology, War on Terror

Fans of the tele­vi­sion show “24” should like this par­ody involv­ing Santa Claus. I’m sure it’s a viral video for some­thing, but it sure is funny… Continue reading

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How to Fight Terror

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Culture, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Hizbollah, Immigration, Iran, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

JERUSALEM — For­eign Pol­icy looks at how Al-Qaeda recruits fol­low­ers: …al Qaeda suc­ceeds because, for more than two decades, the net­work has waged a suc­cess­ful infor­ma­tion cam­paign that pushes its mes­sage out to the world as effec­tively asym­met­ri­cal as its use of sui­cide bombers on the bat­tle­field. The most impor­tant point to under­stand is that […]

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