Colouring between the lines of chazal

Colouring between the lines of chazal

Consumer behavior and the Orthodox Jewish Community

Consumer behavior and religious minorities
This can be examined through the lens  u of the Kosher food business or Orthodox consumer goods
There are three areas to examine
1 "mainstream" or " non-jewish" companies that have specific campaigns target the orthodox Jewish communities (can be segmented by subcommunties and region, especially Israel followed by a distance second with New York City)
2 companies that accidentally have become go to for the orthodox community, west clock crock pots, Stella Dora, Duncan Hines,
3 orthodox Jewish companies that target their company and Jewish product companies that target the orthodox sectors (manishivitz)

Extension to bane theory

Because there are so many communal causes, large donors are nor focused correctly. Instead of their $250 000 or $500,000 yearly donations going to the local day school, they share it with nine other causes and the day school must raise tuition.

Scientific Method vs Halacha vs Science vs Halacha

How does Halacha deal with the scientific method (lower-case). While dealing with science is nothing new, it seems that the scientific method still needs to be grappled with. For instance, we speak about how if something can't be seen with the naked eye it may not matter in halacha, bugs in food for instance. But what about bugs that you won't find without using the discipline of science. You may be able to see it in direct sun (or with a light-box), but perhaps you wouldn't have experimented with examining it , using the principles of evidence gathering and without the influence of the scientific method. Not to suggest that this should change anything, but it does seem like any interesting trend. Would have the copepods been an issue without the experimental methods used to understand/ discover them?

..says Wieseltier, head-to-toe in black and wearing aviators when he greets me in his corner office, which is almost comically stacked with books.

http://nymag.com/news/features/chris-hughes-2012-12/index4.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/how-the-mullahs-won/309170/?single_page=true

How the Mullahs Won

Salman Rushdie’s artistic decline

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By Isaac Chotiner

People wonder what was it about Christopher Hitchens that they loved. I think what was so special about him was that he was not afraid of thinking differently AND not afraid of saying it. So many people in the world of ideas- for wont of a better term- seem to emote the same as everyone else, and take their lack of independence of thought for enlightened opinion. Hitchens was different. Sometimes he followed the herd, sometime he didn't; he always did recognize that it was a herd. And when he disagreed, he had no problem saying it and saying it in such a enjoyable way.  He is missed.