Epstein Secrets

I worked closely with him on a number of such issues, meeting with him regularly in New York. In 1967, following Israel’s victory in the Six Day War, Goldberg asked me to consult with him on the drafting of Security Council Resolution 242 which sought to provide a framework for peace in that troubled part o

4.2.12 WC: 191694 I also knew that our Constitution said some things about religion. In our Yeshiva we learned mostly about the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of religion. But I started to read a little more about the Constitution and quick

nd would always be “a 75 student.” (I didn’t quite live up to his expectations, graduating with an average below 75). Moreover, my high school was a Yeshiva—a “parochial school” and I am not a parochial person. I did not respect most of my teachers, and the feeling was obviously mutual. Creativity was fro

n Brooklyn We 15,669 Pages 27 Chapter 2: My Secular Education—Brooklyn and Yale We 3811 Pages 6 Chapter 3: My Clerkships: Judge Bazelon and Justice Goldberg We 13969 Pages 24 Chapter 4: Beginning my life as an academic—and its changes over time We 7530 Pages 12 Part Il; The changing sound and look of fr

r father’s deteriorating economic situation. She went to work as a bookkeeper, earning $12 a week. My father, who was not a good student, attended a Yeshiva high school in Williamsberg. It was called Torah V’Daas—ttranslated as Bible and Knowledge. He began to work during high school and never attended co

real victims, however, too often in such cases is the innocent man...” Even as late as the 1960s, the Supreme Court of Georgia, in rejecting Justice Goldberg’s view that the death penalty might be unconstitutional for rape, provided the following male-centered justification for why rapists must be executed

sanction [and] to persecution no assistance.” These powerful words written by the father of our country were displayed on the bulletin board of our Yeshiva as if they constituted the Magna Carta for American Jews.* Yet we saw bigotry all around us. We knew that no Jew had ever been elected president. No