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Congregation in Washington, where he
lives with his wife, poet/author Judith
Viorst, traces his interest in things Jewish
to his childhood.
He was born in 1930 in Paterson,
N.J. As a boy, he remembers attending
the Orthodox shuls of his Eastern
European grandparents on the High
Holidays to spend time with his moth-
er's and father's parents.
'All my grandparents were reasonably
devout," he writes, "but it never
occurred to either side to worship at the
other's shul."
His parents, moreover, belonged to a
Conservative synagogue, where he
became bar mitzvah.
After getting a bachelor's degree from
Rutgers, he studied French history as a
Fulbright scholar at the University of
Lyons and received a master's degree in
history from Harvard. He went on to
get another master's in journalism from
Columbia University before starting his
career at the Washington Post in 1957.
As a columnist for the Washington Star
in the 1960s, he began traveling to Israel
and was "fascinated" with what he saw.
He says he has always been interest-
ed in Israel ("My roots are all in
Judaism"), but these trips sparked his
professional interest.
His first trip to the Arab world was to
Egypt after the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Viorst has covered the Middle East for
30 years for the New Yorker and other
publications and has written about the
region for periodicals including the New
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His dozen books include Sands of
Sorrow: Israel's Journey From
Independence (1987) and In the Shadow
of the Prophet. The Struggle for the Soul of
Islam (2001).
Viorst sees himself as an analyst of the
problems in the Jewish world and in
Israel, not someone who necessarily has
the solutions.
But he points to Rabin's 1992 inaugu-
ral address, which he claims has been
largely overlooked, as containing the
seeds of hope.
"No longer are we a 'people that
dwells alone,' and no longer is it true
that 'the whole world's against us,'"
Rabin said in his speech. "We must
overcome the sense of isolation that has
held us in thrall. "We must join the
campaign of peace, reconciliation and
international cooperation that is now
engulfing the globe, lest we miss the
train and be left alone in the station." ❑
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