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Archive for March, 2013
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VIDEO: Gunning for the Second Amendment: The debate over gun laws in America with Eugene Volokh and Adam Winkler
Posted on March 31, 2013GUNS IN AMERICA – Prof. Eugene Volokh Power Point Presentation below Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, criminal law, tortlaw, religious freedom law, and church-state relations law at UCLA School of... -
Statement of position of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors on the Second Amendment Debate
Posted on March 31, 2013Introduction to this event by Doris Wise Montrose, President and Founder, Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Welcome and thank you for coming tonight to our very timely and important discussion... -
So What Are We Going to Do About It? – Eugene Volokh, March 22, 2013
Posted on March 31, 2013After the Sandy Hook school shooting, as well as after other shootings, those of us who are skeptical about gun controls are often asked: So what are we suggesting should... -
The Secret History of Guns – Adam Winkler, September 2011
Posted on March 31, 2013The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no... -
Who’s Right on Second? – Eugene Volokh, December 6, 2002
Posted on March 31, 2013Living, breathing decisions. Someone asked me yesterday, after the Ninth Circuit’s latest decision about the Second Amendment: Shouldn’t courts read the Second Amendment as part of an evolving Constitution? Say... -
The Second Amendment Is All for Gun Control – Adam Winkler, Feb 17, 2013
Posted on March 31, 2013Gun-rights extremists champion it; gun-control advocates cower before it. But the most controversial amendment is in fact an established roadmap to greater gun regulation, writes Adam Winkler. After the president’s... -
Knives and the Second Amendment – David Kopel, March 25, 2013
Posted on March 31, 2013That’s the title of my forthcoming article in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. My co-authors are Clayton Cramer and Joe Olson. The abstract: This Article is the... -
Every generation they rise up to try to destroy us
Posted on March 29, 20131. Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors unequivocally stands by the survival of Israel as a Jewish state from the river to the sea, because history has shown that without a... -
Passover’s gift: The Promised and Undivided Land – Victor Sharpe
Posted on March 24, 2013Billions, of the world’s people do not know the meaning of the towering festival of freedom and liberty known as Passover; a festival of spring, recognizing an event that has... -
A DARK PASSOVER – Rita Kramer
Posted on March 24, 2013When families gather around the Seder table, many recall the dark Passover of 1943 and the climax of the months-long battle in which the small number of men and women... -
Roosevelt, Ibn Saud, and American Jews – Andrew Bostom
Posted on March 24, 2013This morning at AT, Professor Emeritus Edward Bernard Glick described his frank 1958 discussion with Eleanor Roosevelt regarding her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s decision not to bomb the railway... -
The Obama Visit and American Jewry – Isi Liebler
Posted on March 24, 2013Israelis will enthusiastically welcome President Obama in the course of his first visit to the Jewish state since being elected president. But they will also be apprehensively following his statements... -
Backing Palestinians: Obama’s High Noon switcheroo in Jerusalem – Jack Engelhard
Posted on March 24, 2013NEW YORK, March 22, 2013 – That could have been Theodor Herzl addressing those enthusiastic young Israelis this Thursday in Jerusalem, or perhaps Moses himself. Instead, the man who proclaimed... -
Did Israel `Apologize’ to Turkey? Well, No, Not Exactly – Barry Rubin
Posted on March 24, 2013Israel apologizes to Turkey, reads every headline. That simply isn’t true in the sense it is taken to imply. To understand what happened one must examine the long negotiations on... -
An open letter to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – Professor Steven Plaut
Posted on March 24, 2013Dear Mister Prime Minister: On behalf of all of the people of Israel, I would like to apologize to you for the cowardice and fathomless idiocy of the Prime Minister...
