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Inside The Mortgage Meltdown
Check out the book on Amazon.com. Edmund L. Andrews writes that nobody duped him. He duped himself. He had covered all sorts of financial meltdowns as an economics reporter for the New York Times, but when he bought a home … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, free markets, home mortgages, mortgage meltdown, New York Times, tom sowell
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The Housing Boom
Check out the book on Amazon.com. Economist Thomas Sowell appeared on Dennis Prager’s radio show May 27: Tom: If the results weren’t so serious, all this would make a great Gilbert & Sullivan musical, with all the mutually contradictory statements … Continue reading
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Naomi Ragen Update
Here’s some background on the charges of plagiarism. Novelist Michal Tal emails me: I find that the Jewish world in America, notably Haddash, Wizo, and magazines, are in ignorance of what is happening here, in Israel and continue to praise … Continue reading
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I Get Three Pages In ‘Internet Babylon: Secrets, Scandals, and Shocks on the Information Superhighway’ (Paperback)
About once a year, I like to put my name into the Amazon.com search engine and see if any new books have mentioned me. I just found this 2004 book which gives me three pages. You can search through the … Continue reading
‘Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California’
Here is the Amazon.com page for the book and here is the website for the author Frances Dinkelspiel. We did this interview a couple of weeks ago via email. I told Frances to only answer the questions she found interesting. … Continue reading
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Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters
Marc B. Shapiro has a new book out: "Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters" Included in the book is a short "Note on Maimonides and Muhammad" following censorship that occurred in his "Islam and the Halakhah," Judaism 42:3 (Summer … Continue reading
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From Porn to Bibles to Puppies
Brad Stone writes for the New York Times: TRIBUTES on the Web site of Richard J. Gordon‘s company strike all of the uplifting chords one would expect of a digital maverick. He is described as a “trailblazing businessman” who is … Continue reading
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‘Sacred Secrets: The Sanctity of Sex in Jewish Law’ by Gershon Winkler
Nobody has ever translated Rabbi Jacob Emden‘s memoir into English because it is so raunchy. It’s time somebody breaks this boundary. A reader posts to Amazon.com: This mischevious little book gathers excerpts from all over the Jewish legal codes on … Continue reading
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