Michael Horowitz
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"Michael D. Horowitz" is an American author and archivist in West Vancouver, British Columbia.

His father, Sol Horowitz, and paternal grandparents were Jews from Russia. Horowitz's American-born mother, Ethel (Married and maiden names/née Frankel), and his maternal side of the family were Romanian Jews. Some of his relatives died during the Holocaust. He is the husband of author Cynthia Palmer, and the father of Winona Ryder and Uri Horowitz.

A former close associate of Timothy Leary, he is responsible with his wife for the creation of the world's largest library of medication/drug literature, the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. He currently is the owner of Flashback Books, a mail-order bookselling operation, specializing in rare, scarce and out-of-print books, periodicals and related printed materials on the history, literature and science of psychoactive drugs.

Horowitz and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are planning a biopic about Leary to be written by Craig Lucas.

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Things shifted a half-century ago. The Jewish community's focus went from Torah to tikkun olam. We redefined our mission in essentially political, repair-the-world terms, rather than strictly religious. Fear of faith [in general] became the central premise of the American Jewish community.

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The government is seriously overreaching in this case and Mr. Ritchie looks forward to being vindicated at trial.

[Judge John Roberts, President George W. Bush's choice for chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,] will put religion back where it belongs, ... He will drive a stake through that view of American jurisprudence that says that religion and God have no place in public life.