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supposed to be Jewish,” Groucho said, “but | was seeing the most beautiful visions of Gothic cathedrals. Do you think Bach knew he was doing that?” “| don't know. | was seeing beehives and honeycombs myself.” Later, we were listening to the score of a musical comedy, Fanny. The...

…tional aspirations, the main impulse was my belief that such a compromise was profoundly in the interest of Israel: the Jewish state whose birth I witnessed, whose existence I had spent decades defending on the battlefield and which I was ultimately elected to lead. Zionism, the...

…e Palestinians. Republicans do not suggest that they can soon break the Democratic Party’s long hold on the loyalty of Jewish-American voters; Mr. Obama got nearly 8 of 10 such voters in 2008. But what Republicans do see is the potential in 2012 to diminish the millions of dolla...

…n goal of the rejectionists today is to lock Israel into the West Bank — so the world would denounce it as some kind of Jewish apartheid state, with a Jewish minority permanently ruling a Palestinian majority, when you combine Israel’s Arabs and the West Bank Arabs. With a more d...

…d the Achille Lauro en route from Egypt to Israel. They murdered one of the passengers, a wheelchair-bound, 69-year-old Jewish American named Leon Klinghoffer, and dumped his body overboard. 217 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011688

…e has so often done.” In the famous Skokie case, in which I supported the right of neo-Nazis to march through a heavily Jewish Chicago suburb, one of the judges argued that allowing Nazis to march through a city where a large number of Holocaust survivors live ‘just might fall in...

… on the right. It was the idea of two people: Shlomo Lahat, a Likud mayor of Tel Aviv who now backed Oslo, and a French Jewish businessman named Jean Frydman, a friend of Shimon Peres whom I had got to know and like. But in several of the early planning discussions in which I was...

…-did you meet Ace Greenberg through his children at Dalton? -Did he say that given your reputation for intelligence and Jewish heritage, you should be working at Bear Stearns? Was this in the late 70s? -Did you soon move to a penthouse at 66th St. and 2nd Avenue? -During this tim...

…ife. The Best Defense dealt with my earliest cases during the first decade of my professional life. Chutzpah covered my Jewish causes and cases. Reversal of Fortune and Reasonable Doubts each dealt with one specific case (Von Bulow and O.J. Simpson). I will try not to repeat what...

…his dangerous phenomenon. I decided therefore to prioritize my legal and human rights work in defense of Israel and the Jewish community as long as this threat persisted. I had wanted to write a book called 7he Case For Peace, in which I criticized both sides of the Arab-Israeli...

…-did you meet Ace Greenberg through his children at Dalton? -Did he say that given your reputation for intelligence and Jewish heritage, you should be working at Bear Stearns? Was this in the late 70s? -Did you soon move to a penthouse at 66th St. and 2nd Avenue? -During this tim...

…e. The Best Defense dealt with my earliest cases during the first decade of my professional life. Chutzpah covered my Jewish causes and cases. Reversal of Fortune and Reasonable Doubts each dealt with one specific case (Von Bulow and O.J. Simpson). I will try not to repeat wh...

you attach the Jewish community to your action…I now find it hard to understand how you can mount a passionate defense for a convicted rapist.

… began to devote considerable time and energy to the defense of Israel against efforts to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state. As I entered my seventh decade and looked back on my life’s work

… a sex offender, nor a threat of jail time. 40. In 2007, Mr. Epstein argued that he was being persecuted because he was Jewish. Lawyers for Mr. Epstein said that he was being unjustly targeted because of his wealth. 41. In the fall of 2007, Mr. Epstein's legal team negotiated a n...