
The Long Hangover of the Roaring Eighties
By TOM DEIGNAN
|This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.

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If you want to understand the moral collapse of the left in America these days, consider the shame of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg. He is a distinguished scholar and historian, a longtime spiritual leader of a suburban conservative synagogue, who has served Jewish organizational life as president of the American Jewish Congress and a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, years during which he emerged as one of the most articulate doves on the world scene.

By TOM DEIGNAN
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By JEFFREY WELLS
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By JOSEPH CURL
|If you want to understand the moral collapse of the left in America these days, consider the shame of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg. He is a distinguished scholar and historian, a longtime spiritual leader of a suburban conservative synagogue, who has served Jewish organizational life as president of the American Jewish Congress and a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, years during which he emerged as one of the most articulate doves on the world scene.
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