E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
-
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…
-
News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Democratic Dynamo? As top Democrats furiously jockey to be considered among the potential candidates for the post of chairman of the Democratic National Committee, one Jewish figure has surfaced among the lot. Rep. Martin Frost, who lost his seat as a result of Texas’s controversial redistricting plan in what was the most expensive and acrimonious…
-
News Senate Probe Of Lobbying Puts Heat On DeLay Ally
As congressional Republicans scrambled to shield House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from the fallout of a possible indictment, a Senate investigation zeroed in on the lobbying activities of one of his top allies in the Jewish community. Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a DeLay ally and a major philanthropic supporter of Orthodox causes in the Washington,…
-
News Senate Fight Highlights Evangelicals’ Rise in GOP
The movement to prevent Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the nation’s senior Republican Jewish lawmaker, from assuming the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee is highlighting the ascendance of evangelicals in the Republican Party — and the loss of power of moderate Northeasterners. Since Specter, a moderate pro-choice lawmaker, made post-election comments noting that anti-abortion…
-
News Conservatives Gun for Specter
Conservative Christian groups are stepping up their calls against Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the senior Jewish Republican lawmaker in Washington, whom they are trying to prevent from assuming the chairmanship of the influential Senate Judiciary Committee. Specter, a moderate who recently won a fifth term, was instrumental in torpedoing the 1980s Supreme Court nomination…
-
News Jewish Voters Flock to Kerry, But Polls Show Slight GOP Gain
Even as the country handed President Bush and the Republicans a strong mandate, Jewish voters appeared to rally to the side of John Kerry. Two national exit polls showed that Bush gained only slightly more than the 19% of the Jewish vote he scored in 2000: One, from The Associated Press, showed Kerry winning 77%-23%;…
-
News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — With polls showing that this most crucial of swing states could once again determine the presidency, both the Bush and Kerry campaigns are bombarding the region with high-profile emissaries in an effort to boost Jewish support. The frenzied push to harvest Jewish votes comes in a state in which Bush won by…
-
News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Off to the Races: How’s this for a feel-good horse-race story? Most Jewish candidates running for Congress this year will win. All of the 30 incumbent Jewish senators and congressmen running for re-election are favored to retain their seats, with the notable exception of one. That’s Rep. Martin Frost of Texas, who has gotten “hammered,”…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward ‘Rabbi rebellion’: 33 Orthodox rabbis endorse Harris
- 2
Opinion I was a Bernie supporter. This year, I’m voting Trump. Here’s why liberal Jews like me made the switch
- 3
Opinion Here’s why Orthodox Jews are loyal to Trump — even if they don’t love him
- 4
FIRST PERSON As a rabbi, he helped others mourn. So why wouldn’t his daughter say kaddish for him?
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Meet Josh Stein, North Carolina’s first Jewish governor-elect
-
Fast Forward Pro-Trump PACs back more misleading ads about Harris and Israel in final bid for swing-state voters
-
Fast Forward Thirsty Philly voters were in for a surprise: Paul Rudd and some handy hydration
-
Opinion Netanyahu’s firing of Gallant is a cynical betrayal of Israel’s security
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
