When Justice Breyer Was Called to the Torah

Bill Clinton’s 1994 nomination of Stephen Breyer put a second Jew on the Supreme Court for the first time since 1932-1938, when Justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo had been on the court together. At the time I was president of the American section of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, an organization that had been founded by Justice Arthur Goldberg and Israeli Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohn.