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Treppenwitz: Is this 2013 or 1947? Last night when I got home from work, my older son was sitting on the couch watching one of the cable sports talk shows... so I joined him in order to share a little father-son time.
The topic of the moment was the news that Jason Collins, an NBA basketb...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 1:15am -07:00T (422 words)
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Treppenwitz: Does John Kerry speak for the Obama administration? I ask because in a question and answer session held while he was visiting Turkey this week, Mr. Kerry was asked a pointed question regarding reapproachment between Turkey and Israel (in the wake of the Gaza Flotilla raid).
In his response, the Amemrican ...
Dateline: 2013-04-23 4:00am -07:00T (207 words)
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Treppenwitz: Fear the Primitive Weapons Made by Primitive People As a former New Englander now living in Israel, I have been following the news quite closely since hearing of the horrible attack on the crowd at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. And several things about the media coverage have me genuinely concer...
Dateline: 2013-04-17 5:45am -07:00T (665 words)
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Treppenwitz: New (to me) Hebrew slang I'm always stumbling over new Hebrew words, slang and espressions in my day-to-day life. Not being a native speaker of the language, I suppose this is to be expected.
Most new (to me) words I can figure out from context. But occassionally I have to ...
Dateline: 2013-04-14 4:30am -07:00T (184 words)
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