How Einstein Divided America's Jews - The Atlantic
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Albert Einstein’s first trip to America (1921) triggered a kind of mass hysteria. But as newly published documents show, it also tore a sharp rift between European Zionists and some American Jews -- men like Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, who felt that the best way for Jews to get ahead was to assimilate, not agitate for a Jewish homeland.
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Rep Edwards Out Front to Stop Corp Dominance of Elections
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Maryland Rep Donna Edwards turned to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis for guidance in framing the Constitutional amendment she proposed Tuesday as the right and necessary response to the decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and a high court majority to abandon law and precedent with the purpose of permitting corporations to dominate...
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A Lawyer's Duty
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During the spring of 1905, reformer and future Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis received an invitation from the Harvard Ethical Society. Mr. Brandeis choose as his topic "The Opportunity in the Law." In his speech, Mr. Brandeis spoke on the failure of lawyers to press for to consider the needs of all when they advanced their careers:
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:40:11 AM
How Einstein Divided America's Jews - The Atlantic (December
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In 1921, Albert Einstein's first trip to America triggered the kind of mass hysteria that would greet the Beatles four decades later. But as newly published documents show, it also tore a sharp rift between European Zionists and some of their fellow Jews across the Atlantic, men like Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, who felt that the best w
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Are concealed carry laws part of the gun control formula?
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"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Justice Louis Brandeis
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"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
This Day In History
Lend-Lease Act: was signed into law by FDR, providing aid in the form of equipment, food and weapons to the Allies during WWII (1941)
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