E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News GOP Ads Try To Tie Dean To Terrorism
A Jewish Republican group greeted Howard Dean’s election to chair the Democratic National Committee this week with an ad campaign seeking to depict him as a supporter of terrorism. The group, the Republican Jewish Coalition, placed full-page advertisements in the Washington newspaper Roll Call and in Jewish weeklies around the country, featuring a large picture…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Gannon Fire: The conservative Web site linked to the latest White House propaganda scandal was touched by an earlier controversy: In 2003 it frequently published a columnist accused by critics of trafficking in antisemitism. The Web site, GOPUSA, is the main outlet for Talon News Service, which until recently employed the disgraced White House reporter…
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News U.S. Pick of Envoy To Kiev Ceremony Ignites a Furor
Elation in Washington over Ukraine’s so-called Orange Revolution gave way to red faces this week after the White House was forced to distance itself from a controversial Ukrainian American polemicist who was part of the American delegation to the inauguration of Ukraine’s new president, Viktor Yushchenko. The disputed envoy, Myron Kuropas, a longtime GOP activist…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Hailing Howard: About 400 Democratic activists came out Sunday to hear former Vermont Governor Howard Dean in Manhattan at SEIU 1199’s union hall. Dean, who appeared to have sewed up the race to head the Democratic National Committee as the Forward went to press, seemed to have changed nothing from the standard red-meat stump speech…
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Culture Ancient Woes Resurfacing As Dean Eyes Top Dem Post
As the Democratic National Committee gets set to pick a new chairman, the party is experiencing déjà vu all over again. Like a replay of the Democrats’ 2004 presidential primary season, the early frontrunner in the DNC race is former Vermont governor Howard Dean. Then as now, a number of other candidates of varying attractiveness…
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News Billionaire Liberals Seek To Fund Idea Mills
A handful of ultra-wealthy Jewish liberals are resolving to do battle with conservatives by providing a big infusion of cash to progressive think tanks and idea mills. New York-based financier George Soros, Cleveland insurance king Peter Lewis and Oakland, Calif., banking magnates Herb and Marian Sandler made the pledge at a meeting in San Francisco…
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News Groups Sign on to Abortion Rights Effort
WASHINGTON — America’s two largest synagogue movements and several major national Jewish agencies are joining a campaign to oppose attempts to outlaw abortion, arguing that reproductive rights are a religious freedom. The campaign was launched this week by the National Council of Jewish Women on the 32nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Kerry Forth: Cameron Kerry, Senator John’s Jewish brother, has joined the executive committee of the National Jewish Democratic Council. The post carries hefty duties: Committee members must pledge or raise $25,000 a year for the group. Cameron Kerry told the Forward he signed on “to continue the involvement I had in the campaign in outreach…
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