It is times like these that give new impetus to our prayers in which we ask that along with all the other blessings, G-d bless us with courage, or at least with courageous leaders.
Re "300 Rabbis in U.S. Group Say Jerusalem Is Shareable" (news article, Jan . 20: It is encouraging that there are at least 300 courageous Jewish leaders willing to express the previously inexpressible.
Yet they also embody a modern variation on Zionism's mandate that, as Mr. Gurock put it, "the role models for Jews had to be either the victorious Maccabees or at least the courageous Bar Kochba, who fought against the nations of the world".
If you can't, or won't, think outside boxes and beyond ethnicities, at least be courageous enough to face the uncomfortable implications of your color vision.
Although it is less comforting to believe in randomness, I take heart in the fact that it is at least kinder, more courageous, and true.
So in that respect, Reilly deserves a great deal of credit for being, if not a visionary, then at least a man courageous enough to speak truth to habit.
The new book (which comes garlanded with praise from just about every A-list author in America) turns out to be a remarkable collection, not least because of its courageous determination to push forward in the direction hinted at by that last story.
And Apple has behaved courageously before, at least within the limitations of how courageous a global corporation can be: I think it was courage (and self-interest) that made it fight the FBI the way it has.
He was one of the most gentle and unflappable politicians I have ever known, yet he was immensely courageous, too, not least when he spoke for the country against the invasion of Iraq".
By contrast, rather than nominate a modern-day radical -- say, an outspoken gay rights activist -- or even someone dramatically on the left side of the legal spectrum, Obama recently picked Elena Kagan, whose most significant qualification appears to have been that she successfully avoided doing anything the least bit controversial -- or courageous -- over the course of her long legal career.
