Daniel Lubetzky

Brad Stone wrote an interesting article that speaks to societal differentiation between success from building something and risking your own skin to achieve it, vs. enrichment from financial engineering risking other peoples’ money. September 28, 2008 How We Value the Super-Rich By BRAD STONE San Francisco — Americans, as unfolding economic events remind us, are [...]

When Sir Paul McCartney performed a historic concert in Israel earlier this week, he wore the OneVoice symbol on his lapel – as did every member of his band. How did this come about? When we learned that McCartney was headed to the Holy Land, our team in OneVoice Europe, led by Sayyeda Salam, took [...]

Seeing Alaska Gov. (and McCain Vice-Presidential nominee) Sarah Palin be interviewed by Katy Couric gave me a strange sense of deja vu.  Where had I heard this before?  Then it came to me… Here is the CBS News interview – discussing her foreign policy experience: And here is what I had heard before: Miss Teen [...]

Following the trend where comedians (Stewart, Colbert) tend to be the best at undoing all the spin and exposing the raw political reality, David Letterman’s reaction to McCain’s cancellation of his visit to the show provided the best analysis of the situation. The Christian Science Monitor provided a good recap here – quite funny actually. [...]

When the movie Life is Beautiful came out back in 1997, I felt a gnawing guilt at enjoying the movie so much, when the protagonist, as a concentration camp prisoner, found a way to laugh and make others laugh, amidst dehumanizing circumstances.  Could a sense of humor have a place in such a dark episode [...]

From a lunch meeting with my friend Frederic Brenner, the photographer, philosopher and social anthropologist, he shared this powerful quote: Nous sommes tous de lopins et d une texture si informe et diverse, que chaque pièce, chaque moment fait son jeu. Et se trouve autant de différence de nous a nous mêmes que de nous [...]

For a newspaper with editorials as sophisticated and generally on target at least as free markets economics is concerned, it was surprising to read an editorial about "speculators" with such fallacies in logic as the one here.  Amidst all the finger pointing against speculators, the Wall Street Journal regularly asserts that speculators do not have [...]

Hollywood has for many years taken for granted people who speak languages other than English.  It is the most annoying thing to listen to actors break their teeth as they pretend to speak in "Spanish" – or French, or Hebrew, or Russian – and I gather any other foreign language.  It is bad enough that [...]

Interesting WSJ article about "guerrilla marketing." LIFE & STYLE SEPTEMBER 12, 2008 The New Pranksters By ELLEN GAMERMAN Across the country, young people are joining campaigns that are drawing thousands of followers inspired by a common purpose. They’re not handing out leaflets at rallies for Barack Obama or John McCain. Instead, they’re posing like statues [...]

If you do nothing else today, make sure you view this – The Story of A Sign – La Historia De Un Letrero – it is well worth it. http://en.zappinternet.com/video/nilSqaMboM/HISTORIA-DE-UN-LETRERO (and it happens to be shot in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, a town my Mom is from)