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Props to the Pops: “On Education” column on digg!

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Aaron
on August 3, 2007
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Somehow, my dad, who is, in every possible way, “technologically inept,” managed to get on the front page of super-modern-Web-2.0 social news site digg (His story, from his most recent education column about a teacher who was forced to pass a failing student, has 2041 diggs and counting). Yet somehow, me, with all of the tech blogging and podcasting I do, never once got any of my work on digg. So why is is that my father did. Could it be his 30+ years of journalistic experience, the recognition of his publisher, or just the fact that he’s an amazing writer? Nah, I don’t think so.

But seriously, the column was very well written, in addition to the fact that I actually read it (I admittedly do not read most of my father’s many columns). So, you guys should definitely check out the column, and digg it up! Now, if only it could get on Diggnation…

Props to the Pops: “In the Diaspora”

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Aaron
on April 20, 2007
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sf_205.jpgThis is the first post in my new series “Props to the Pops,” which links to some of the many articles that my father (see right)writes which I actually read find particularly interesting. This article, “In the Diaspora: Hallowing helplessness,” from The Jerusalem Post, talks about the Yom HaShoah speaker at my school (who also spoke that nights to parents), and how he conveys the Israeli idea of Yom HaShoah instead of the American one. Here’s how it begins:

When Michael Weinstein introduced his father, Edi, as the speaker for a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at a Manhattan day school, he used an unexpected adjective. The word was “optimistic,” and it is a quality of character one hardly associates with a Holocaust survivor.