Daniel Gross is the author of four books including, most recently, Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great for the Economy published by HarperCollins (2007). He writes regularly about business for Newsweek and for Slate.
Friday-night dinner with the machers in Switzerland
| 7:00 AM Feb 5, 2010
Shabbat observance is something I prefer to do at home, with my family and friends. While traveling, I don’t seek a Chabad house for a Shabbat dinner, or blast out an email to see if a friend of a third cousin is in Beijing, or Tokyo, and wants to play host to a wandering Jew. ...
From the archives: A year into the financial meltdown, the calendar keeps turning, and so does the economic cycle
| 7:00 AM Sep 16, 2009
Judaism is a religion of cycles. Most congregations read the entirety of the Torah over the course of a year, though some stretch it into three years. There’s the Daf Yomi, a cycle in which the learned plow through the Babylonian Talmud in a 7.5 year cycle. Its primary and secondary texts describe cycles in ...
Matt Beynon Rees creates a new kind of sleuth
| 12:11 PM Mar 13, 2007
Matt Beynon Rees in Bethlehem
Born in Wales and educated at Oxford University, Matt Beynon Rees cut his teeth as a journalist in New York City. In 1996 he moved to Jerusalem, where he worked as a correspondent for Newsweek, Time, and other publications, and wrote Cain’s Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East ...
