In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to … - Alan Dershowitz

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When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

Alan Dershowitz

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

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I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

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I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.

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If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.

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Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace. ' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax. '

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We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

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One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

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Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

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