E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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Breaking News Hackers Threaten To Wipe Israel off Cyberspace
Hackers threatened to remove all traces of Israel from the Internet and accused it of crimes against humanity on the same day that it crashed the Central Intelligence Agency’s website. The hacker group Anonymous released a video on YouTube Feb. 10 on which it said that “For too long we have tolerated your crimes against…
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News Author Mulls a Winning Strategy for Democrats
As Democratic lawmakers struggle in Congress over how to end America’s military involvement in Iraq, Democratic strategists have waged a behind-the-scenes battle over the best way to position the party on national security for the 2008 election. While there appears to be broad agreement that America ought to quit the war, a few Democratic strategists…
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News Hillary the Favorite in Race for Jewish Donations
New York’s junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to snare the lion’s share of the Jewish community’s substantial political donations in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Democratic activists and operatives said Clinton will pull in large quantities of cash among Jewish donors not only because of what they described as her…
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News Neocons Leery of Baker’s Return
As official Washington waited with bated breath this week for the report of the Iraq Study Group, neoconservatives were sounding alarms that the document boded ill for Israel. That was because the leader of the ISG was none other than James Addison Baker III. By now, it’s an immutable law of American politics and foreign…
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News Scandal Could Derail New York Comptroller
Few New Yorkers expected Alan Hevesi — the state comptroller and one of the most influential Jewish elected officials in the country — to face an uphill battle for re-election this year, when Democrats like him are winning big in the Empire State. But scandal may take him down. A former all-city basketball player, 6-foot-3…
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News ABC News Man Shares Notes on How To Win in 2008
Presidential politics in America today is only superficially about ideas or policies. At its most raw and elemental, it is about men and their drives: an animal slugfest fueled by desire and ambition. In recent years, fed by polarization, the rise of more overtly partisan media outlets and the explosion of blogs, politics at all…
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News Alleged Slur Casts Spotlight On Senator’s (Jewish?) Roots
When Senator George Allen of Virginia used a racial slur for dark-skinned North Africans, “macaca,” during a recent encounter with a young Indian American cameraman from his opponent’s campaign, many wondered where he had learned the word. Macaca means “monkey,” but Allen’s campaign insisted that the word was made up, an inside joke on the…
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News Liberal Assault on Joe Could Hurt Democrats in Other Senate Races
Some Democrats are nervous that if Senator Joseph Lieberman loses his primary to an antiwar challenger, thousands of hawkish Jewish Democrats who see the Connecticut lawmaker as their standard-bearer will either abandon the party or sit out the November election. That, say several political observers, could make the difference in some hard-fought Senate races —…
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