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… were religious Zionists (“Misrachi Zionists”). We had a blue and white Jewish National Fund “pushka” (charity box) in our homes

in which I frequently participated - - more often as victim than victor - - but the Borough Park section of Brooklyn was a safe neighborhood. [I guess that’s why my family was so mystified when my brother failed to return home from a shopping errand immediately after the end of...

… as kids). We told jokes so old you could give them numbers (itself one of the oldest jokes). And we wondered about why our lost adolescence exerted such magnetic attraction.

but they prided themselves on having seen through the external faults that had relegated us to C lists. ''You don't need to buy the 50's in a store

the clerks would prepare bound volumes of all the opinions we worked on during our clerkship. One was given to the judge and the others to us

…ent at age 24.” It quotes me as making the heretical statement that: “there’s no such thing as The Law….Law is one of our many processes for ordering society. You can’t view this process as a neatly compartmentalized entity. It must be viewed in its full perspective as an ong...

the law student is going to have to know his ‘law’ as his preliminary basis for the experience to cope with existing institutions and do a lawyer’s job. One cannot deny the credentials of Professor Dershowitz’s genius

… because I was teaching criminal law. I had a lot of freedom since no one really cared about criminal law at Harvard. Our students were unlikely to become criminal lawyers in those days. In fact

…e continuing to press me hard on its implications. At one point Judge Aldrich asked me what I would do if the Supreme Court ruled against my theory. “Will that be the end of the road…?”

hundreds of readers came forward and volunteered their assistance. It also generated numerous other stories—presenting our side of the case.

such as the executive or the military. Our experience in delegating decision-making authority to these institutions in times of crisis is discouraging.

who was lead counsel for the Times in the Pentagon Papers case. Our cases shared a common constitutional approach and so we exchanged ideas and drafts.

…get calls and emails demanding that I sue them for defaming the Jewish people or committing a “blood libel.” But under our First Amendment only an individual can be defamed. There is no such thing as group libel. In other words you can say all you want about “the Jews

…r exercising my own freedom of speech to criticize a judge for an opinion she wrote. This certainly made me appreciate our First Amendment. Here is the story:

the French philosopher Voltaire articulated the fundamental premise underlying true support for freedom of speech: “I disapprove of what you say