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January 28, 2009
Hardening Hearts, Protecting Our Freedoms
To the contemporary reader, the story of the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt is every bit as compelling as it was to readers centuries ago.
A Question for My Friend Alan Dershowitz
Harvard Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz is that rare individual who is both a highly respected academic and well known to the general population.
My Answer to Prager: Why I Refuse to Join
My old friend Dennis Prager can’t understand why I don’t leave the left to join him on the right.
A Time for Action
Karen Bass, speaker of the California Assembly, looked remarkably calm, considering that she’d just arrived to speak at The Jewish Federation in mid-Wilshire following a freeway trip from the airport. At the Capitol, she had just taken part in another fruitless budget meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other legislative leaders, an experience as difficult as riding the freeways.
Seder With Beach Limbo?
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not as if I don’t enjoy things like beach volleyball, windsurfing, kayaking and moonlight salsa dancing.
Jews Without Money
Last week, a couple of days after President Barack Obama took the oath of office and set about trying to straighten out the country, I was in a meeting room at the elegant Brandeis House on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with a small group trying to do the same for the Jews.
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