“It's hard to imagine that Jay Lefkowitz would be taking this job to be window dressing on a separate track. I'm confident that he is not going to be a potted palm no matter how many people at the State Department seek to stick sharp elbows in him.”
“Things shifted a half-century ago. The Jewish community's focus went from Torah to tikkun olam. We redefined our mission in essentially political, repair-the-world terms, rather than strictly religious. Fear of faith [in general] became the central premise of the American Jewish community.”
“[Judge John Roberts, President George W. Bush's choice for chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,] will put religion back where it belongs, ... He will drive a stake through that view of American jurisprudence that says that religion and God have no place in public life.”
