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March 15, 2012
Opinion: Can’t buy me love
It feels like spring, but there\’s little love in the air for Mitt Romney. The GOP frontrunner expected to have his party\’s nomination sewn up by now so he could focus on sending Barack Obama back to Chicago. But too many Republicans just can\’t find it in their hearts to embrace the former Massachusetts governor and are still hoping someone will come along who can make them fall in love.
Shul Business
No one taught Rabbi Ahud Sela how to read a budget when he was in the seminary. Talmud and pastoral counseling took precedence over the basics of planned giving.
Ice cream entrepreneur taps into the ‘spiritual aspect’ of business
After Ben Cohen and business partner Jerry Greenfield completed a course on ice cream making, they established their first ice cream shop in 1978 and went on to build Ben & Jerry\’s Ice Cream – a $300 million empire and one of the largest ice cream businesses in America.
Young entrepreneurs earn gelt for the community good
\”We call these tchotchkes,\” Keith Wasserman says, examining a snow globe. The 27-year-old founder and president of Gelt Inc. talks into a video camera as he walks around the furnished unit in a Bakersfield apartment complex, which the company purchased in 2009.
Opinion: Iranian red line already has been crossed
Much has been said lately about red lines for Iran’s nuclear weapons program, but the most important of those lines in the sand already has been crossed. Iran now has the know-how and the means to build nuclear weapons, and aerial attacks by the United States or Israel would not erase that capability.
Is an annuity right for you?
Grandpa’s fixed pension, that sweet and steady stream of income that started on the day he retired, is nearing extinction. Most Americans today will retire not on company checks, but on personal savings and Social Security. With interest rates low, the stock market jumpy and Congress pinching pennies, it is no surprise that 87 percent of Americans, according to one recent survey, worry about running out of money.
Judea Pearl wins award for work in artificial intelligence
Judea Pearl, co-founder of the Daniel Pearl Foundation and an internationally renowned expert in computer science, will receive the Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” for his path-breaking innovations in artificial intelligence — the discipline probing the partnership between humans and robotic machines.
Opinion: The lessons of the Beren accommodation
On the morning of Feb. 28, 2012, Alyza Lewin of the law firm Lewin & Lewin invited me to participate in a conference call to discuss a burgeoning controversy involving the basketball team of the Robert M. Beren Academy, an Orthodox Jewish School in Houston, Texas.
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