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...DIED. Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian-born Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A Jewish former law student who fled Mussolini's regime in 1938, he was best known for his influential theories on the way people save money. Previously it was widely assumed that only the rich saved; he proposed that people at all income levels save money and spend...
...very essence of human nature because he understood its contradictions. He was both a fighter and a compassionate defender. A man of logic and passion. An artist and a critic. A visionary of the future with an understanding of tradition. He fought for Palestinian rights while understanding Jewish suffering, and did not see this posture as a paradox. We founded the West-East Divan as a forum where young Israeli and Arab musicians understood that before Beethoven we all stand as equals. I shall never forget his making a room full of young Arabs, Israelis and Germans understand that...
...interview this weekend, Finkelstein accused Dershowitz of “wholesale lifting of source material” from Joan Peters’ book, From Time Immemorial, in which she argues that Jewish settlements predated the arrival of Palestinians in what is now Israel...
...considerable risk to his own safety, Levy - who, like Pearl, is Jewish - spent more than a year investigating the murder in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and other locales. Levy doesn't buy the argument that Pearl, who was 38, was murdered simply because he was an American and a Jew - ?crimes? to which he confessed moments before he was decapitated. Rather, Levy suggests, Pearl?s killing was a ?state crime,? orchestrated by a syndicate of Jihadist groups with the backing of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), its CIA. Levy theorizes that Pearl was close to uncovering ties between ISI chiefs...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz and Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies Phyllis Chesler discuss their recent books. Dershowitz’s much-discussed The Case for Israel responds to the arguments leveled by the many opponents of the Jewish state and its policies. In The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It Chesler warns readers of what she perceives to be a recent rise in the popular acceptance of old-fashioned anti-Semitism. 7 p.m. Free. The Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett...