ב׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Thursday 19 November 2009)

Raising Dogs and Children

ב׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Thursday 19 November 2009)

Very interesting response from Carolyn Hax: “In my experience, dog-rearing style is a deadly accurate predictor of child-rearing style.” That is kind of worrying to me, because I’m quite harsh and strict with my dog. I have actually made every decision with him and with his training based on the concept that he is not [...]

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100 Tips to Great Restaurant Service

א׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 18 November 2009)

I’d really like to join in the conversation myself, but the idea of reading through thousands of other people’s comments just to avoid saying something dumb and/or repeating what someone else said it not feasible, so I’ll write about it here. Bruce Buschel’s 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (1-50 and 51-100) is so [...]

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Libertarians and Jews

ל׳ במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 17 November 2009)

I was thinking about Half Sigma’s question Why are all the Jews libertarian? and actually came up with an interesting idea: Liberty (I hate the term “libertarianism”) is the Jewish version of conservatism in countries outside Israel. In other words, those Jews who are inclined to become conservatives, either because they’re simply disposed to it [...]

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Slate on Ayn Rand

כ״ט במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Monday 16 November 2009)

It’s been many years since I last considered Ayn Rand a major influence in my life (fortunately I had the wisdom even as a teenager not ever to want to be an “Objectivist”), but as a dedicated reader of Slate and as someone who was at least turned on to liberty and to a somewhat [...]

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Conversion to Judaism

כ״ח במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 15 November 2009)

For purposes of what I consider to be Jewish unity, even though I don’t accept Rabbinic authority to impose an interpretation of the Torah, to legislate or to enforce their interpretation or legislation, I have spent many years believing that all conversions must follow a strict “orthodox” approach: the prospective convert is (1) discouraged, then [...]

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Spies and the politicians who love them

כ״ז במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 14 November 2009)

Israel experiences spy scandals with some frequency, but it’s not common for a KGB agent to reach such a high level as Shimon Levinson. I was at first uninterested in his case, a few of the details of which have recently been made public. But when reading through the article about him, I was pretty [...]

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