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Two Years of Writing for The American Spectator

Dov Fischer
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R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. speaks at The American Spectator’s annual gala (Amile Wilson)

If Hyphen Cortez is correct, you will never read this because the world will have ended before the annual American Spectator gala. Either the glaciers of Greenland will have melted and ruined the reams of pulp on which this essay is to be printed or the impact of cows from Australia to Argentina farting their very last will have proven too overwhelming for the printing presses to operate. Yet I invest the time to write this because I believe the world will not have ended, but that, au contraire, Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff still will be investigating President Trump’s Russian collusion, Rep. Al Green still will be pushing for impeachment, and Joe Biden still will be gaffing (if he still appears to be conscious). This article was originally published in the American Spectator print magazine. Click here for online access! It now is some two years since I began writing regularly for The American Spectator. It has been a joyride for me, coming to encounter so many fun and enthusiastic readers and, yes, fans — as well as one or two anti-Semites and one or two Jewish self- haters who love to write comments like this one: “I just read Dov’s super-long article, and what a waste of my time! I can’t believe I wasted half my day!” (And the thing is, that guy writes the same thing after every article, like he’s dealing with an addiction. Like, if you hated a writer that much, would you read him every day for two years? And what does it say about an intellect that needs half a day to read 1,500 or so words?)

My relationship with The American Spectator goes back to the 1970s. I was a young conservative back then, attending Columbia University undergrad. All my professors were leftist Marxists. All my enemies were leftist Marxists. The thing is, all my best friends also were leftist Marxists — because that was pretty much all they had for me to choose from. Since Jeffrey Epstein has shown us what two days in solitary confinement can do to a person (all the more so if th...

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Rabbi Dov Fischer, Esq., is Vice President of the Coalition for Jewish Values (comprising over 2,000 Orthodox rabbis), was adjunct professor of law at two prominent Southern California law schools for nearly 20 years, and is Rabbi of Young Israel of Orange County, California. He was Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and clerked for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit before practicing complex civil litigation for a decade at three of America’s most prominent law firms: Jones Day, Akin Gump, and Baker & Hostetler. He likewise has held leadership roles in several national Jewish organizations, including Zionist Organization of America, Rabbinical Council of America, and regional boards of the American Jewish Committee and B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation. His writings have appeared in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Federalist, National Review, the Jerusalem Post, and Israel Hayom. A winner of an American Jurisprudence Award in Professional Legal Ethics, Rabbi Fischer also is the author of two books, including General Sharon’s War Against Time Magazine, which covered the Israeli General’s 1980s landmark libel suit. Other writings are collected at www.rabbidov.com.
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