Brian Blum
By Brian Blum
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Life What Killed One of Israel’s Highest Flying Hi-Tech Start-Ups?
When Better Place’s charismatic CEO Shai Agassi gave his viral TED talk in 2009, describing how his company’s innovative electric car technology could help stop climate change and free nations from the yoke of oil dependence, investors and business leaders worldwide took notice. Countries from Japan to Denmark to Australia signed on, and the privately-held…
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Life The Secret to Making My Mixed Marriage Work
“I know my husband uses the microwave on Shabbat,” a friend told me, after I shared my story of being in a mixed secular-religious marriage, “but he makes sure to do it while I’m out of the house at shul.” While this bifurcated approach may work in the short term, where the less observant partner…
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Life I’m In a Mixed Marriage — and It’s Not What You Think
I have a confession to make: I’m in a mixed marriage. But not the kind you usually think of when you hear the term, which conjures up images of countless Tevyes sitting shiva. These days – and in Israel, in particular – “mixed marriage” refers not so much to two people of different religions, but…
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