His parents fled the Nazis in 1937 — now he’s using his chutzpah to fight Donald Trump
Sen. Ron Wyden discusses his Jewish heritage and his fears of history repeating itself
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Fast Forward Judge To Dershowitz: You Wrote The Book On Chutzpah, And It Shows
A federal court judge rejected attorney Alan Dershowitz’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit against him, ruling on Wednesday that the case filed by a woman who accused him of molesting her can proceed. Virginia Roberts Giuffre claims that she was a “sex slave” of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and that Dershowitz was one…
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Opinion Lance Armstrong and the Meaning of Chutzpah
Two confessions: I am neither a speaker of Yiddish nor a fan of professional cycling. But as we hover in the halftime break of Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, I can’t help but wonder if the televised confession has implications for the meaning of chutzpah. Most of us are familiar with Leo Rosten’s classic…
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Culture Is ‘Halachic’ Going Mainstream?
Whatever we may think of advertising — a capitalist tool, an agent of manipulation, a bravura display of wit and verbal dexterity, the stuff of an irresistible television show such as “Mad Men” — it’s hard to conceive of modern life without it. In the absence of advertisements, whether print, electronic or digital, our newspapers,…
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The Schmooze Michelle Bachmann’s ‘Chutzpah’ Gaffe
Michele Bachmann needs to work on her “chutzpah.” The GOP presidential candidate attempted to use the word on Fox News Wednesday night — but while the Christian Midwesterner’s embrace of Yiddish is striking, her pronunciation would have caused confusion in the shtetl. The Minnesota congresswoman, on a tear in Iowa polls but as gaffe-prone as…
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