E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News Bush Fails To Renominate Pipes to Institute of Peace
In an apparent victory for radical Muslims and the left wing of the American foreign policy establishment, President Bush has failed to take any action to renominate Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace. Bush appointed Pipes, a conservative Middle East analyst and syndicated columnist who has…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Three’s a Crowd?: After Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois was tapped this week to head the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, some observers were joking nervously that the Dems were stacking their leadership with too many big-city Jews. After all, Senator Charles Schumer of New York recently was named head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Food Fight: A fund raising letter signed by Rabbi David Saperstein, head of the Religious Action Center, the Washington-based policy arm of Reform Judaism, is raising the hackles of some Orthodox officials. “Thanks in large part to the aggressive tactics and ‘take no prisoners’ approach of the reactionary right, reasoned political debate in America has…
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News Congressman Uses Reports To Help Keep GOP Honest
Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist, a physician, was getting an on-camera grilling from ABC News talk show host George Stephanopoulos. “Do you believe that tears and sweat can transmit HIV?” Stephanopoulos asked. “I don’t know. I can tell you….” stammered Frist, a Tennessee Republican. “You don’t know?” Stephanopoulos pressed. The majority leader, a heart transplant…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Jon Corzine, Ladies’ Man: If acting Governor Richard Codey of New Jersey is finding that his campaign for the 2005 Democratic gubernatorial nomination might depend on improving his relations with the state’s old boy-dominated county machines, his rival Senator Jon Corzine appears to be reaching out to another potent constituency: female voters. At least, that’s…
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News Holiday Invite List Showcases White House’s Ties to Orthodox
The White House’s budding relationship with the Orthodox Jewish community was on display last week at three public events that some participants said signaled who’s in and who’s out of favor with the administration as President Bush heads for a second term. An intimate December 9 meeting between the president and 15 communal leaders featured…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Kerry and Kofi: Senator John Kerry is adding his voice to those in support of embattled United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose resignation is being demanded by a growing chorus of American lawmakers enraged by the U.N.’s oil-for-food scandal that allowed Iraq to evade international sanctions. “John Kerry does not believe there’s evidence that Kofi…
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News GOP Activist Calls for Halt To Federation Donations
A Jewish GOP leader is calling on his fellow Republicans to withdraw their financial support from Jewish charitable institutions — especially federations — that express “hostility toward Republicans” or pursue “a differing political agenda.” Bruce Bialosky, former president of the Southern California region of the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Bush-Cheney ’04 Jewish outreach chair…
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