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Description of What Israel Means to Me

"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. "Israel is part of me, and I am part of Israel." - Jonathan Kellerman, psychologist, novelist. "Wholly apart from my feelings as a Jew, strong support for Israel is the logical consequence of my political principles." - Barney Frank, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. "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. "Israel is a free society. The rights of the minority, of the oppressed, indeed, of the criminally foolish are protected." - David Mamet, playwright. "Having the ability to shape our lives as Jews, to defend them and fulfill them, that is what Israel means to me." - Michael B. Oren, author.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780470169148

Pages:

368 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

241344

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:

29/08/2007

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About Alan M. Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School, is one of the country's foremost appellate lawyers and a distinguished defender of individual liberties. He appears frequently on television and writes numerous articles for the New York Times and other newspapers and magazines. His many books include the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah, the New York Times bestseller The Case for Israel (Wiley), The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved, also from Wiley and Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Contents of What Israel Means to Me

Introduction by Alan Dershowitz.

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.