By Phoebe Eaton 3/01/04 12:00am

Abe, Mel and the Christ

Abraham H. Foxman sat in his office suite with its expensive United Nations view, wondering when the WNBC camera crew would get there. The afternoon would soon be spent: It was Friday, and the national director of the Anti-Defamation League was ending phone calls with the words “Shabbat Shalom.” The next day he was jetting Read More

By Joe Conason 2/26/01 12:00am

Marc Rich’s Friends Are Suddenly Silent

The toxic atmosphere thrown up by a media frenzy tends to obscure the facts and choke off dissent. In the current uproar over the pardon of Marc Rich, the opinions of very prominent individuals-people who are regularly quoted in other circumstances because of their unquestioned rectitude and authority-are being ignored. Understandably, very few of those Read More