New York, October 17th, 2005
IT HAPPENED LAST WEEK WITH THE CALL of the shofar resounding through the five boroughs, the city marked the start of the year 5766 in the Jewish calendar. Reflections on righteousness occupied the thoughts of many New Yorkers, Jew and Gentile alike, as they strove to sort out complicated feelings about various public figures. What to think about newly liberated Times reporter Judith Miller, for example? Was she a martyr to freedom of the press, or did she, as some cynics suggested, deliberately prolong her stay in that "soulless" northern-Virginia jail to improve the commercial possibilities ...
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