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Marc Jampole: Wealth and Ethics

March 2, 2012

The news this week that a new study found that wealthier people were more likely to behave unethically set off a chicken-or-egg debate in my mind. In the study, Paul Piff, a graduate student at the University of California-Berkeley, led a team of researchers at UC-Berkeley and the University of Toronto in a variety of [...]

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Blood is Thicker than Water: A Different Sort of Racism

February 26, 2012

So last I was here, I left you with the promise that I’ll look more closely at anti-miscegenation stories like the ones on the Yad L’Achim website and the racist assumptions they make about Palestinians. But they’re not the racist assumptions you were probably expecting! Here’s what I was surprised to find. In any anti-miscegenationist [...]

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Ameridish

February 13, 2012

My father’s generation of Jewish immigrants was incredibly creative and practical in adding to our glorious Yiddish language. Share and Enjoy:

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Marc Jampole: Food Stamps and Racism

February 9, 2012

Newt Gingrich has persisted in calling President Obama the “food stamp” president, despite the fact that more people went on food stamps during Bush II’s presidency than during the Obama presidency. What I find interesting is how many people, both conservative and progressive, assume that the statement is inherently racist. And behind the assumption of [...]

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O My America: “Make Way for Tomorrow”

February 5, 2012

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” —Jewish proverb Every once in a while you order up a flick from Netflix and then forget why you ordered it, and then you watch it and sit there at the end, stunned and sniffling and astounded [...]

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Marc Jampole: The Three-Way Battle for Control of the Internet

January 25, 2012

The one-day protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) accomplished its objective: With three major sponsors running from the proposed legislation, SOPA and PIPA backers are scrambling to revise the law to make it more palatable to the Wikipedias and Googles of the world. The Stop SOPA/PIPA [...]

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Historical Learnin’ Part 3: Stealing Jewish Women

January 23, 2012

In my last two posts in this series, I’ve invited everyone to join me on my senior thesis adventure of discussing the role of individual bodies within Zionism, which sets up a way of understanding the current Israeli anti-miscegenation movement. In case you were thinking to yourself, after reading my last blog post, something along [...]

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O My America: Sheldon Adelson’s Scary Accomplishments

January 23, 2012

If Newt Gingrich becomes the Republican nominee for President, his victory will be paid for, in no small part, by Sheldon Adelson’s gambling profits. Adelson, the billionaire owner of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation (which owns the Venetian and the Pallazzo hotel-casinos), is one of the ten wealthiest people in America. He pitched in a [...]

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Gayle Saks-Rodriguez: Skirting the Holocaust

January 19, 2012

Gayle Saks-Rodriguez conducts the blog “My Life in the Middle Ages.” I follow a brilliant blog written by a man named Robert Bruce who is reading (shockingly quickly, I might add) what Time magazine chose as the top 100 English-Language Novels Since 1923. Recently there was a rather heated discussion at his blog  about Lolita [...]

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Lou Charloff: A Pair of Shoes

January 14, 2012

I was 11 years old, it was the depths of the Depression, and I was living at 888 Fox St.  That neighborhood was described a couple of decades later as the most crime-ridden neighborhood in the Bronx.  However, when I was a kid, the neighborhood was very respectable, although very poor. In the final days [...]

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