By Kim Velsey 9/25/12 4:20pm

Manhattan Transfers

The living room is nice and all, but we'd bet the legal contract to buy it is truly stunning.

Alan Dershowitz Exercises Constitutional Property Rights, Buys Sutton Place Pad

Alan Dershowitz may be from Williamsburg, but the famed legal mind steered clear of the hippest of hoods when it came time to buy a pied-a-terre in the city of his birth. Instead, Mr. Dershowitz headed straight for that stronghold of old money, purchasing a three bedroom, 2.5-bath co-op at 45  Sutton Place.

And after all, Cambridge, where the longtime Harvard law professor has a sprawling six-bedroom house, is also known for being rather tradition-bound, so we’re sure he’ll feel right at home enjoying all his civil liberties in the new apartment. Besides, what could be more perfect for Mr. Dershowitz than a dwelling overlooking the new Four Freedoms Park? Read More

By Matt Chaban 8/03/11 12:01am

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Co-Op Grocer Model Proves Wildly Successful For Brooklyn Food Co-Op

Soy Vey! Could a Hummus Fight Kill the Co-op?

Israel and the Park Slope Food Co-op have a lot in common. Both were founded in part by Jewish socialists. Both are governed by a raucous democracy with laws and rituals to rival the Talmud. Both have a soft spot for hummus and couscous.

And now both are plagued by the Palestinian question. Read More

By Matt Chaban 8/03/11 12:00am

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First They Came for the Penises: Dershowitz Fears BroBos’ Circumcision Boycott

In this week’s issue, The Observer talked to Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor and maybe the staunchest defender of Israel on the planet, about a proposal for a boycott of Israeli goods at the Park Slope Food Co-op. In his typically brazen style, Mr. Dershowitz compared pro-boycott co-op members to bear-baiting-hating Puritans and vowed to shut the BroBo institution down if a boycott went through. “You have to fight fire with fire,” he said. Soy veyzmeir, but these were some of his tamer declarations. Read More

By Staff 3:15am

At Brandeis, Alan Dershowitz Snaps His Towel at Tony Judt

The other day at Brandeis, Alan Dershowitz, responding to Jimmy Carter, took a shot at NYU’s Tony Judt because of Judt’s famous call (in the New York Review of Books) to give up on the idea of a Jewish state.

“Tony Judt is in favor of the complete dissolution of the state of Israel… the Read More

By Staff 5/11/06 4:23pm

Universities: The Last Refuge for the Left

When Brandeis shut down an exhibit of Palestinian art last week, the organizer promptly found a new home for it across town at MIT. Then this week a group of Brandeis faculty started a petition drive to have the exhibit brought back to Brandeis. They have gotten 90 signatures, including many Jews. I’ve posted it Read More

By Staff 4/03/06 2:51pm

Dershowitz the vigilante

Alan Dershowitz continues to play a shameful role, vigilante of the pro-Israel lobby, by telling the Washington Post that two leading scholars have “destroyed their professional reputations” by questioning the power of the Israel lobby over American policy-making. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/02/AR2006040201039.html?referrer=emailarticle
Dershowitz’s comments are shameful because they seek to smear and intimidate anyone Read More