What Israel Means to Me : By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists

by Dershowitz, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780470169148
• ISBN10: 0470169141
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-17
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People "The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of the Israelis, the way politics is a matter of life and death there-all these things beguiled me." -Erica Jong, author "What does Israel mean to me? Courage. The Israelis have more courage in their pinky finger than I have in my whole life." -Tovah Feldshuh, actress "It is an unparalleled story of tenacity and determination, of courage and renewal. And it is ultimately a metaphor for the triumph and enduring hope over the temptation of despair." -David Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee "I have no desire to be like everyone else. Something in me wants the entry of the Jewish people into world politics to be judged by the highest conceivable measure. Indeed, that may be what is both so inspiring and confounding about the existence of Israel." -Rabbi Lawrence Kushner? "Israel isn't a symbol. Israel is the practical manifestation of hope, freedom, and self-determination." -Larry King, television host

Author Biography

Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, one of the country's foremost appellate lawyers, and a respected voice on Israel. His many books include the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah, the New York Times bestseller The Case for Israel, The Case for Peace, Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways, and Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Yosef I. Abramowitz

David Adler

Shulamit Aloni

Robert Alter

Christina Applegate and Nancy Priddy

David Arnow

William J. Bennett

Meron Benvenisti

Theodore Bikel

Edwin Black

Laura Blumenfeld

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Paul Buhle

Judy Feld Carr

Leon Charney

Norm Coleman

Richard Ben Cramer

Paul Eidelberg

Stuart Eizenatat

Marc H. Ellis

Amitai Etzioni

Avner Even-Zohar

Jane Falk

Tovah Feldshuh

Charles Fenyvesi

Barney Frank

Samuel Freedman

Leslie Gelb

Uri Geller

Judy Ginsburge

Nathan Glazer

J.J. Goldberg

Ari L. Goldman

Monty Hall

Joshua Hammer

David Harris

Mark Helprin

Susannah Heschel

Rabbi Marvin Hier

Arthur Hiller

Judd Hirsch

David Horovitz

Erica Jong

Max M. Kampelman

Jonathan Kellerman

Rabbi Naamah Kelman

Aviva Kempner

Larry King

Morton Klein

Edward Koch

Melvin Konner

Rabbi Harold Kushner

Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

Stan Lee

Rabbi Michael Lerner

Norman Liss

David Mamet

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Laraine Newman

Michael B. Oren

Norm Ornstein

Judea Pearl

Natalie Portman

David Raab

Pat Robertson

Anne Roiphe

Donna Rosenthal

Amnon Rubinstein

Douglas Rushkoff

Julie Salamon

Stephen Schwartz

Bernie Siegel

Ned L. Siegel

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Milton Viorst

Rabbi Noah Weinberg

Rabbi Sherwin Wine

Rabbi Eric Yoffie

Fred S. Zeidman

Stephen Zunes

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