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/ BARAK / 125 Chapter Twenty-Five I had hoped that in facing down the nuclear threat from Iran, I could nudge Bibi towards a reengagement with the Palestinians — not with great enthusiasm, but as an act of pure political pragmatism. There were only two ways we could stop the Ir...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 Being mentored by Elie Wiesel Since the beginning of my career, Elie Wiesel—the world’s most famous and influential Holocaust survivor—has served as a guide, mentor and friend. I have sought his advice on many issues, and he has sought mine. As a professor of...
strengthening some of the Jewish State's sworn enemies. The Gulf kingdom of Qatar has done more than simply buy into the Rawabi paradigm: It's also funding two-thirds of the project, to the tune of over $600 million. This is enough money to single-handedly finance the Fatah-domi...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 may be why Jews of my generation are so influenced in their attitudes and ideology by the Holocaust. There but for the grace of God, and the forethought of our grandparents, go we. (In 1999, I wrote a novel Just Revenge, which reflected my dear feelings about t...
entire airport. Though I didn’t say so, I had my doubts it would work. It was a bit like the initial option for the Rue Verdun raid Dado had rejected: a classic ground assault which, in addition to eliminating any chance of surprise, obviously ran the risk of igniting a small gro...
10 GQLDMAN he Jarvanka side of the White House increasingly felt that rumors leaked by Bannon | and his allies were undermining them. Jared and Ivanka, ever eager to enhance their status as the adults in the room, felt personally wounded by these backdoor attacks. Kushner, in f...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 which refused accept women for many years, or Jewish clubs, which limit their memberships to my own co-religionists. (More on this later.) Judge Bazelon played hard and worked even harder. For his law clerks it was all work, no play. We had to be in the office...
Listening to the concert program in my parents’ room was something I always looked forward to. It was my father who encouraged me, when I was eight, to begin learning to play the piano. I took lessons once a week all during my childhood along with several other of the kibbutz chi...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 Yale, this confrontational approach was generally admired. It had not been acceptable to the Rabbis, nor would it be to justices and judges. Even at Yale, my chutzpah was not welcome by all the professors. Professor Fritz Kessler, was an older European trained...
own, in which we could achieve the self-determination and security denied to us elsewhere. During the 1890s and the early years of the new century, more than a million Jews fled Eastern Europe, but mostly for America. It was only in the 1920s and 1930s that significant numbers a...
Chapter Nine The phone rang in our apartment in Palo Alto at 4:30 in the morning. We had been in the US for barely six weeks. It was the Sixth of October 1973: Yom Kippur, the holiest date on the Jewish calendar. I was still a bit groggy from the night before. We had been out at...