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Monthly Archives: December 2017
Improving Intercultural Understanding
My friend Yael Luttwak, a film maker, undertook a brilliant project in Palestine (now comprising Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) in 2007 to improve relations between Jewish Israeli and Palestinian women. In her own words she “filmed … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Palestine
Tagged black power, Gaza, integration, Israel, Israeli women, Palestine, Palestinian women, race relations, University of Tennessee, West Bank
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American Exceptionalism—where has it gone?
Americans are among the most generous people in the world. World Giving Index – published by the Charities Aid foundation – averages the percent of the population giving money to charities, the percent who have volunteered time for an organization in the past month, … Continue reading
Posted in Palestine, War
Tagged bully, Israel, Jerusalem, Netanyahu, Nikki Haley, Palestine, Paul Pillar, Phillip Weiss, Trump, UN, Uri Avnery, West Bank
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The Wedding Cake
Americans harbor many conflicting views on many subjects. Our right to freely express them is guaranteed in the American Constitution’s First Amendment. It is precisely this right that has enabled the LGBT community to convince an ever-growing number of our … Continue reading
We will always have terrorists
The cancer of ISIS is metastasizing. As it losses its caliphate in the Levant, it is being reborn here and there across the globe. We will always have it or its successors or something like it, in the same way … Continue reading
Posted in News and politics, War
Tagged freedom, gangs, ISIS, mafia, risks, security, terrorists
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General Michael Flynn
We all deserve to know whether Donald Trump colluded or cooperated with Putin and Russia in any way to illegally help his presidential campaign. I have full confidence that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will provide us with the truth … Continue reading
Posted in Government, News and politics, Ukraine
Tagged Flynn, Logan Act, Mueller, Putin, Russia, Sergey Kislyak, Trump
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What is SALT really about?
Here is the proper way to understand the SALT issue—whether State and Local Taxes should be deducted from taxable income on which federal taxes are levied. Assume that taxpayer 1 (Jack) in state A and taxpayer 2 (Mary) in state … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, taxes
Tagged Federal Income tax, income taxes, local taxes, SALT, SALT deduction, state taxes, tax reform
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