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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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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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Game theory and the shidduch crisis

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

Shomer Shekalim has a great post about the shidduch crisis and game theory on which I commented, but thought I’d continue writing here. He asks: “To be honest though, if we could figure out what really is behind the shiduch crisis, it probably would save people thousands of dollars in what is currently spent in [...]

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Femininity

י״ב במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Friday 30 October 2009)

I had one of these great conversations yesterday that stays in my head, turning around and around so I can analyze and re-analyze it for a long time. A fellow in my office, about my age but born in Israel and lived here his whole life, asked me about my Aliyah – am I Jewish, [...]

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