By Limor Shiponi Update, April 15th 2013 For now, the teacher is placed on leave. If it’s a temporary step that will help everybody cool down and start thinking, that’s ok. If she is on her way out and by that people think ‘matter solved’ – it’s the wrong thought. I don’t think severe actions …
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By Limor Shiponi Last night on the news, they talked about rape in Syria. Item after item we were watching the terrible state of women and men there, being raped because they are Sunnite, Alawite, Shiite, non-Islamic, whatever, women tempted into sexual Jihad, marriage Jihad, eventually ending up as sex slaves or sold to slavery …
By Limor Shiponi The generating event of this story happened today, while searching for an idea. Seeking advice from people that might have phrased the issue better, I found myself searching through TED talks and eventually landed on a rather rare piece about the performing arts. A lot of the talks are about tech, science, …
By Limor Shiponi This post is about politics and a different G story than what stable readers of this blog have been accustomed to lately. If you’re not interested, skip. If you’re not sure, try, it might elicit some thoughts. Current events, turmoil of public opinion, twitter feeds screaming anti-Semitism, pictures of destruction. At the …
By Limor Shiponi “…and bring forth the old because of the new.” (Leviticus 26:10) Am I the only one who feels the ‘modern world’ is enforcing this idea, originally related to harvest, on everything? most probably not. The story in ‘Skyfall’ deals quite a lot with this issue. For large chunks of the movie, people …