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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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Deflation

ז׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 21 February 2010)

Recently one of my favorite bloggers, Israeli Water Engineer, wrote about fears of deflation in the United States: “This is bad. The only solution to world indebtness is controlled inflation….” I commented that deflation is a pretty good thing; he replied and I replied back (go read it). Though this discussion is about deflation, I [...]

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JFS and Racial Discrimination

ב׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 19 December 2009)

As a university student in America, I once read an article posing the question: When did the modern era in Jewish history begin? The author’s answer was to point out that the answer depends on who answers the question. A Zionist might say, for example, that modern Jewish history began in 1789 with the rise [...]

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Public Education

א׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Friday 18 December 2009)

Suppose private education were banned tomorrow. What would happen next? That question is not entirely academic. Progressives hate private education with all their might and they would absolutely move to crush it if they had the resources. Here in Israel, there is essentially no system of private education. At the primary and secondary level, there [...]

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