high school

World AIDS Day: AIDS is a Niche Concern

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Wednesday 1 December 2010)

This post is in honor of World AIDS Day. According to Ynet, 382 people contracted HIV in Israel in 2009. On a side note, one of the eeriest things about moving from the United States to a tiny country with socialist medicine is that statistics like this can be announced with some authority and even [...]

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How to Cheat on a Test

כ״ד בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 6 July 2010)

If you came here looking for instructions on cheating, you won’t find them. I am a reformed cheater and think cheating is despicable, so please don’t do it. In my high school, virtually everybody cheated (I know of two students who didn’t), but in retrospect I would have been much better off if I’d not [...]

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Jews & the US Army

ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 24 November 2009)

My grandfather served in the US army’s occupation of Japan after the Second World War – I was led to believe that he was too young to have been in the army during the war – but he was born in 1926 and I’ve long wondered if he didn’t maneuver somehow to avoid having to [...]

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