Hi-Lo
Rob Eshman
June 19, 2008
What you get instead is a God\’s eye view of the Holy Land: close enough to see day-to-day life, far enough not to get involved — just like God.
Category
geography
From Mulholland, to the freeway, to the ocean, white with foam — God bless the Valley Hills
Tom Tugend
January 11, 2007
Which section of Greater Los Angeles has the densest concentration of Jewish residents? The urban core, including Fairfax and Pico-Robertson? Maybe Beverly Hills and the Westside? Try the Valley.
Priorities
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
September 28, 2006
We love to play Jewish Geography. Whenever we meet a fellow Jew for the first time, we try to find mutual people or places we might have in common.
Never the Same
Jane Ulman
March 7, 2002
Danny, 10, can recite the Five Pillars of Islam: faith, prayer, charity, fasting and pilgrimage.
Jeremy, 12, understands the difference between Predator armed drones and Global Hawk surveillance drones; between 500-pound \”dumb\” gravity bombs and 2,000-pound \”smart\” precision-guided bombs.
Gabe, 14, knows that Pastun and Dari are the spoken languages of Afghanistan while Pastuns, Uzbeks and Tajiks make up the main ethnic groups.
Zack, 18, can locate most of the \”stans\” — Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
Since Sept. 11, on a practical and comprehensible level, my sons have learned about the religion of Islam, the military capability of the United States, the ethnicity of Afghanistan and the geography of Central Asia.
New Vistas
Jewish Journal
November 29, 1999
\”The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape,\” by Joel Kotkin. (Random House, $22.95)\n\nJoel Kotkin, a senior fellow at both Pepperdine University Institute for Public Policy and Milken Institute and a research fellow at the libertarian Reason Public Policy Institute, for 20 years has been researching and writing about what he terms \”intangible\” inputs into economic life.
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