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Date: September 30, 2007 9:04:42 PM PDT
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz
The son of a Jewish immigrant from the Central European region of
Galicia, NORMAN PODHORETZ was born and raised in Brownsville,
Brooklyn. Podhoretz's family was leftist, with his elder sister
joining a socialist youth movement.
Podhoretz received bachelor's degrees from both Columbia University
— where he studied under Lionel Trilling — and the Jewish
Theological Seminary. He later received a BA with first-class
honors and an MA from Cambridge University.
Career
Podhoretz served as Commentary magazine's editor-in-chief from 1960
(when he replaced Elliot E. Cohen) until his retirement in 1995.
Podhoretz remains Commentary's editor-at-large.
From 1981 to 1987, Podhoretz was an adviser to the U.S. Information
Agency. From 1995 to 2003, he was a senior fellow at the Hudson
Institute. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In
2004, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest
honor the U.S. president can bestow on a civilian.
Podhoretz is married to author Midge Decter**, and is the
stepfather of Rachel Decter (Elliott Abrams' wife) and father of
syndicated [neocon] columnist John Podhoretz.
Podhoretz received the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan
University on May 24, 2007.
He currently serves as a senior foreign policy advisor to Rudy
Giuliani in his presidential campaign
Midge Decter (born July 25, 1927 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an
American neoconservative journalist and author of various books,
including:
Always Right: Selected Writings of Midge Decter
Rumsfeld : A Personal Portrait
With Donald Rumsfeld, Decter is the former co-chair of the
Committee for the Free World and one of the original drivers of the
neo-conservative movement with her spouse, Norman Podhoretz. She is
also a founder of the Independent Women's Forum, and was founding
treasurer for the Northcote Parkinson Fund, founded and chaired by
John Train.
Ms. Decter started her career in journalism as the secretary to the
then-editor of Commentary, Robert Warshow. She resigned during her
first pregnancy.
Among other positions, she was the executive editor of Harper's
under Willie Morris, leaving the magazine in 1971. Her first job in
publishing came as an editor at Basic Books.
She is one of the signatories to Statement of Principles for the
Project for the New American Century
She is the mother of the conservative syndicated columnist John
Podhoretz, the youngest of her four children, and the second by
Norman Podhoretz.
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"godfather of the neo-con movement"
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Norman_Podhoretz
The following comes from (and was adapted from) the March 9, 2003,
Jim Lobe article "Family ties connect US right, Zionists":
"As godfather of the [neo-con] movement, Irving Kristol played
mentor to Norman Podhoretz, the long-time but now-retired editor of
Commentary, the influential monthly publication of the American
Jewish Committee (AJC). Originally identified with the anti-war
left in the mid-1960s, Podhoretz converted to neo-conservatism late
in the decade and transformed the magazine into a main source of
neo-conservative writing, despite the overwhelming majority of the
Jewish community itself rejecting those positions.
"Podhoretz and his spouse, Midge Decter, a polemical powerhouse in
her own right, created a formidable political team in the 1970s as
they deserted the Democratic Party, and then, as leaders of the
Committee on the Present Danger -- like (Project for the New
American Century) PNAC a coalition of mainly Jewish, neo-
conservatives and more traditional right-wing hawks like Defence
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld - helped lay the foreign-policy
foundation for the rise of Ronald Reagan. After Reagan's victory,
Decter and Rumsfeld co-chaired the international offshoot of the
committee, called the Coalition for the Free World.
"Podhoretz is the father of John Podhoretz, a columnist for the
Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post, who also acts as a ubiquitous
booster of the hawks. And his son-in-law, Elliott Abrams, who held
a number of controversial posts in Reagan's State Department and
was eventually convicted in the Iran-Contra scandal for lying to
Congress, now serves in George Walker Bush's National Security
Council as his top Middle East adviser.
"At Commentary, Podhoretz offered considerable space to such rising
lights of the neo-conservative movement as future United Nations
(UN) ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (whose late husband Evron
Kirkpatrick was a long-time collaborator of Irving Kristol);
Richard Pipes, a Harvard University Soviet specialist and top
Reagan adviser; Pipes' son, Daniel Pipes, a staunch Likud supporter
who has long argued that Washington has been too complacent about
the threat of Islamist radicalism both overseas and at home; and
all of the Kristols and Kagans*."
*The Kagan reference is to Robert Kagan, Donald Kagan, and
Frederick Kagan.
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