On a rather stressful day, I really enjoyed reading this article on the benefits of walking a dog. Here is a snippet on how walking a dog helped people in an assisted living home: To the surprise of the researchers, the dog walkers showed a big improvement in fitness, while the human walkers began making […]
READ MOREEnglish Court and Israel
I’m honestly stunned by this. A court in Britain issued an arrest warrant against former foriegn minister Tzipi Livni? What jurisidiction do they have? How is this possible? I am totally stunned by this. Here is the link: Tzipi Livni Arrest Warrant
READ MOREIs China like Dubai?
Wow. Must read editorial by Edward Chancellor on the parallels between China and Dubai. Here is the best part: Dubai’s ambitions weren’t merely domestic. Dubai World and its subsidiaries, with their assumed government backing, went on a debt-fuelled global buying binge. Dubai’s economy expanded rapidly in the boom. But much of this growth came from […]
READ MOREThe Demographic Implications of China’s One Child Policy
“But social experiments always have unintended consequences. In the case of China’s One Child Policy, these consequences are now becoming evident, and are no less breathtaking in scale than the dreams entertained by the coercive visionaries in Beijing who set this scheme in motion. Inexorably—and by now inescapably—a host of new and unfamiliar demographic problems […]
READ MOREA Hebrew Speaking Dog, A Rabbi and Montana
There is a great story in the New York Times about a Montana policeman asking a rabbi for help with his Hebrew speaking police dog. Here is the link: Rabbi and Hebrew Speaking Dog
READ MORELiving the American Dream
Below is the link to a wonderful story about two friends of mine, Abe and Leon Presser. I’m honored to know them and to have learned by following their example. Story about Abe and Leon Presser
READ MOREAlice Schroeder Interview
Jeff Matthews just posted a lengthy, yet excellent interview with Alice Schroeder, who wrote the book Snowball about Warren Buffett. Jeff Matthews Interview
READ MOREBill Julian
I highly recommend you read Bill Julian’s latest letter. I really liked it. Here is a snippet from the letter. He compares wildfires to today’s economic (mis)management: The tools that Washington will use to try to control these burns really amounts to its own balance sheet together with a policy of extending, amending and pretending. […]
READ MOREMoishe House
I’m on the board of directors of a wonderful organization called Moishe House. This is the only organization I am on the board of and I feel very strongly about it. There is a real crisis in the Jewish world, in which young people are turning away from synagogues and organized religion and the way […]
READ MOREObama Responds to Cuban Blogger
While I just knocked the President for his shirking the moral high ground in China, I do commend him for responding to Cuban blogger, Yoani Sánchez. Ms. Sanchez has been highlighting how tough and bad life is in Cuba and she recently got beat up by Cuban security people for it. Good for the President, […]
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