Jul 15, 2009
Immigration Officers at New York.. not representative of USA
Where do they get them from? Arrived at the EWR international airport after a swift and smooth flight from Paris. There were only two people in front of me at…
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Apr 15, 2009
Pesach in Paris Jour 2
Claude Berger is certainly an interesting man.. Born and raised in Marais, the jewish district, this writer, philospher, marxist, and a dentist to boost and a lover of jewish culture…
Mar 15, 2009
Thinking about Mamma Loshen.. Yiddisch
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 one of the few advantages of driving through large swathes of plain countryside in the USA, in a rented car, is the ability to listen to BBC
Mar 15, 2009
Bernard Lewis and the future of Arab Freedom..
Historian Bernard Lewis breathes a fresh perspective into the cultural conflict between the Arab and Islamic world and the west. Even as early as 1950, he had thought that the…
Mar 15, 2009
Purim Pictures from Israel
My Brother Itzhak is in Israel with his wife and son, Shmulik. He sent me these lovely photos of the Purim celebrations in Jerusalem.
May 15, 2008
Meet the Top 100
Meet the Top 100 The May/June issue of Foreign Policy, a global magazine about Politics, Economics and Ideas, named its list of top 100 public intellectuals. I was drawn initially…