Jerusalem – A prominent Jewish organization on Wednesday awarded U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg its first lifetime achievement award.
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The Genesis Prize Foundation noted Ginsburg’s “groundbreaking legal work in the field of civil liberties and women’s rights” in its announcement.
The foundation sponsors the annual Genesis Prize — an award that is informally known as the Jewish Nobel.
It said the five winners of the Genesis Prize — former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actor Michael Douglas, violinist Itzhak Perlman, sculptor Anish Kapoor and this year’s recipient, actress Natalie Portman — had selected Ginsburg.
“We honor Justice Ginsburg as an outstanding daughter of the Jewish people who made an enduring contribution to human civilization, who is an example of talent and achievement and who is committed to bettering the world,” the five said in a joint statement. “She is a source of inspiration not just for Jews but for people of all faiths and ethnicities around the world.”
Ginsburg, 84, has served on the Supreme Court since 1993. She is just the second female justice and often cites her Jewish heritage as a source for her love of learning and sensitivity to the plight of oppressed minorities.
The former president of Israel’s Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, is scheduled to present the award to Ginsburg at a ceremony in Tel Aviv in July 2018.
The Genesis Prize was inaugurated in 2014 and is run in a partnership between the Israeli prime minister’s office, the private Genesis Prize Foundation and the chairman’s office of the Jewish Agency, a nonprofit group with close ties to the Israeli government. It is funded by a $100 million endowment established by the foundation.
Now time to step aside.
She is responsible for the fact that Pollard spent so much time in prison. She was a Judge of the Court of Appeals in Washington and voted to uphold his sentence despite the fact that the Judge relied on secret documents which Pollard’s lawyer did not see and the Government violated its promise not to recommend a life sentence. The vote to uphold his sentence was 2-1. She was one of the 2. If she had done what was right, Pollard would have spent a lot less time in jail.
Liberal self hating Jew, should step aside due to her failing health and let our patriot president appoint a patriot.
A great public servant.