Me and the guys went to eat at Bob\u2019s bagel shop. I met this gentleman, Ron Teler, who\u2019s a Jewish American (he didn\u2019t actually say he\u2019s Jewish but I pretty sure he is). He\u2019s been in Taiwan for 7 years, and eats at the bagel shop every day, he grew up in New-york, and he even thought of making an \u201cAliya\u201d to Israel at 86. He couldn\u2019t find a job in Israel, and also couldn\u2019t get into a Kibutz because he was too old for that. The ironic thing is that if he\u2019d try to do it in 96 instead he\u2019d probably be a happy, successful, Israeli, because he had a Software company in the states that delt with medical insurance, and at the time, there wasn\u2019t any market for that in Israel, and he had nothing to do with his expertise in Israel, so it didn\u2019t work out, and now he\u2019s living here in Taiwan, trying to learn to speak and read Chinese. He talked to me about food, (Humos mainly) and we moved to politics for a few minutes. I usually don\u2019t talk politics with anyone, but he had some different views from what I usually get from people I talk to, and they fit very similarly with the views of non Israeli Jewish people. Orson Scott Card has almost the same views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Me and the guys went to eat at Bob\u2019s bagel shop. I met this gentleman, Ron Teler, who\u2019s a Jewish American (he didn\u2019t actually say he\u2019s Jewish but I pretty sure he is). He\u2019s been in Taiwan for 7 years, … Continue reading