Heinze 's opinion pieces rarely focus on politics , but in 2002 on the History News Network , he faulted George W. Bush for giving " a businessman 's response " to questions about corporate greed . He suggested that Theodore Roosevelt ( one of his favorite historical figures ) would have spoken differently . " Theodore Roosevelt , " Heinze said , " never thought or spoke like a businessman . On the contrary , " he pointed out , " he placed military men , statesmen and even scholars &ndash; but not businessmen &ndash; at the top of his hierarchy of values ... Selfishness , especially materialistic selfishness , offended him as a profound moral dereliction . " Heinze has often written about antisemitism , but his concerns have usually focused on countries other than the United States . " One of the reasons Jews have traditionally viewed America as a promised land is the comparative absence of violence against them , " he said . In 1999 , however , Buford Furrow and the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting got his attention , and he wrote an opinion piece about it for the '' San Francisco Examiner '' . " Standing at the end of the decade , the century and the millennium , " he wrote , " I think we must agree with Buford Furrow about one thing . The attack on a Jewish day care center in Los Angeles is a wake-up call . " Heinze has written a number of opinion pieces that have focused on the relations between Catholics and Jews . It was logical that he would be interested in the subject because he was a Jew who worked in a Catholic university , he was faculty advisor for the school 's Jewish Student Union , and he was director of the school 's Jewish Studies program . There was another , more personal , reason for his interest , however ; in 1997 he had met Jan Karski , the courageous Polish Catholic who was recognized in 1982 as Righteous Among the Nations for his efforts to help the Jews in World War II . ( Karski had said in 1981 , " just as my wife ’s entire family was wiped out in the ghettos of Poland , in its concentration camps and crematoria — so have all the Jews who were slaughtered become my family . But I am a Christian Jew ... I am a practicing Catholic ... My faith tells me the second original sin has been committed by humanity . This sin will haunt humanity to the end of time . And I want it to be so . ” ) After Karski delivered the keynote address at the first Swig function Heinze had presided over , he had spent some personal time with Heinze and his family ; Heinze never forgot Karski 's gentle warmth , his integrity and his courage
Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
Andrew R. Heinze