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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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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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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 Wednesday 10th of March 2010 03:34:24 PM
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Posted by admin! / Under Louis Brandeis
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
Published on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 03:34:24 PM
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