Archive for January 31st, 2008

Paul Haggis deal: do Scientologists believe in coincidence?

By at 31 January, 2008, 11:07 am

I suppose that to posit that a  person of the Jewish faith had made a deal with a studio run by another person of the Jewish faith, and imply that their both being Jewish had anything to do with the deal being made, would sound Anti-Semitic. So perhaps it would be wrong of me to […]

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Thursday website of the day : NEWSEUM

By at 31 January, 2008, 10:51 am

I’m not sure how Thursday came to be tech day, but the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other papers across the country have all designated Thursday tech/ gadget / website day. So in that spirit, I would like to direct you the the website of the Newseum which has a feature allowing […]

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Inside the LA Times Op-Ed

By at 31 January, 2008, 10:36 am

This week’s Jewish Journal has a good interview by Amy Klein with Nick Goldberg, editor of the LA Times Op-Ed page. The interview focuses, as the op-ed page does frequently, on coverage of the Middle East. Goldberg sees his role as hosting the airing of diverging opinions no matter how much they might anger one […]

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New York Post endorses OBAMA (sort of)

By at 31 January, 2008, 10:28 am

In what must surely be one of the strangest and most convoluted arguments made in this primary season, the New York Post endorses Obama because he is not Hillary and then goes on to trash Hillary and Bill Clinton, separately, together, and trash the Clinton presidency — and then say they don’t think so much […]

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