Ami Eden
By Ami Eden
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News In Judicial Twist, Republicans Seen Stalling Bush Pick
After months of Republicans crying foul over Democratic efforts to filibuster conservative judicial nominees, Democrats are accusing GOP leaders of delaying a vote on one of President Bush’s most controversial picks. Democrats are ready to debate and vote on the district court nomination of James Leon Holmes, but Senate Republican leaders are stalling, said two…
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News Bush Promotes Whitewater Deputies
Despite President Bush’s campaign pledge to heal the country’s divisions over Clinton-era controversies, the administration has been doling out top legal posts to former deputies of Kenneth Starr and other conservative lawyers who helped fuel the Clinton impeachment effort. The president is reportedly set to offer a seat on the nation’s second most important court…
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News AJC Honored Indian Official Charged in Riot
Just days after being formally charged with inciting an anti-Muslim mob, the deputy prime minister of India was feted this month at a dinner organized by the American Jewish community’s oldest civil rights organization. On May 31, India’s Central Bureau of Investigation charged eight people, including Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, with helping to incite…
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News Policies Split Clergy, Secular Leaders
Tax cuts are not a Jewish issue. So says Stephen Hoffman, the president and CEO of United Jewish Communities, the central coordinating body of Jewish welfare federations across North America. “How Congress decides to assemble the revenue of the United States is not a Jewish issue,” Hoffman recently told the Forward. “The Jewish issue is…
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News Bush’s Maneuvers Bewilder Jerusalem and Activists
Shortly before leaving for his trip to Europe and the Middle East, President Bush met in Washington with members of the foreign press corps. One reporter questioned whether, with an election coming up next year, the president had the political ability to pressure Israel. “Can you really do that?” the reporter asked. “Of course I…
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News Wolfowitz Slammed on Turkey Comment
A veteran Democratic congressman is calling for the resignation of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, claiming the Pentagon official is “undermining” democracy in Turkey. Speaking from the floor of the House of Representatives on Monday, Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called on Wolfowitz to resign over remarks he made in an interview that aired on CNN…
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Film & TV (Orthodo)X-Men
In the long-running comic book series “The Uncanny X-Men,” a string of genetic mutations gives birth to a sub-species of humans endowed with super powers. The mutants strike fear in political and military leaders, who worry that this new breed will supplant its genetic predecessors. This alternate reality forms the basis for two movies, “X-Men”…
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News IN OTHER WORDS…
Now It’s Trotsky’s Fault? Conspiracy theories about a clique of Jewish neoconservatives hijacking U.S. foreign policy got bumped up a notch or two this month, when the celebrated Washington policy wonk Michael Lind published his version in the British journal New Statesman. Writing in the April 7 issue of the fabled Fabian sheet, Lind claimed…
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