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Samuel J. Scott, a former Boston newspaper editor and founder of the Considerations blog who moved to Israel in 2008, has published “Letters from Israel: An American journalist’s adventures in the Holy Land.”

JERUSALEM – Samuel J. Scott, a former Boston newspaper editor and founder of the Considerations blog who moved to Israel in 2008, has published “Letters from Israel: An American journalist’s adventures in the Holy Land.”

“Letters from Israel” is an expansion of a series of e-mailed essays and personal stories that Scott sent to his friends and family after moving to Israel on pol­i­tics, cul­ture, and reli­gion in the Mid­dle East as well as the com­plex­i­ties and para­doxes of life in the Holy Land — both the good and the bad.

The book is available at http://www.samueljscott.com/. Review copies are available for journalists, bloggers, and writers. The Considerations blog is at http://www.samueljscott.com/blog/.

The Mid­dle East is the per­fect com­bi­na­tion of heaven and hell, and the book explains why through twenty chap­ters encom­pass­ing 112 pages. From the Israeli-Palestinian con­flict to Mid­dle East­ern reli­gion to local sports to dat­ing, “Letters from Israel” tells the truth about life in Israel beyond the head­lines.

The twenty chapters are:
What is Israel, Any­way? — The Spec­ta­cle of Euro­vi­sion — The Israeli-Palestinian Con­flict — The Pol­i­tics of Lan­guage — Me and the Israeli Arab — The Bright Side of Life — Sto­ries from the Desert I — Liv­ing in a Chaotic Tribe — No Way Out (or, Stuck in the 1970s) — The Opti­mistic Future   — Sto­ries from the Desert II — Sex and Fem­i­nism — In the West Bank — Sto­ries from the Desert III — Find­ing Israel’s Cen­ter — Sex and the Sin­gle Israeli — The Gaza Con­flict — All About the Pales­tini­ans — The Great Reli­gious Divide — The Ultra-Orthodox (Haredim) — Con­clu­sion: The Mean­ing of Israel

Scott, 29, is a former editor-in-chief and executive editor of Spare Change News, a non-profit, alternative newspaper in Boston. He had also written for newspapers including the Boston Courant and the Patriot Ledger (Mass.) as well as worked as an editorial assistant for the Boston Globe and an intern at TNT magazine in London while in college.

Scott has a B.S. in journalism from Boston University, and he is originally from Belleville, Illinois. Scott is currently working from Israel as a consultant in online marketing while finishing his M.B.A. at Bar-Ilan University. He is a part-owner of the website Law School Reference at http://www.lawschoolreference.com

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