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E.J. Kessler

By E.J. Kessler

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John-John Ticket: In Senator John Edwards, Senator John Kerry has chosen a running mate who shadowed him to the right on Arab-Israel matters during the Democratic primaries. Edwards scored high marks among pro-Israel Democrats for his forceful anti-terror language in the Iowa debates. The North Carolinian, who enjoyed the staunch backing of members of the…

By E.J. Kessler Jul 9, 2004 | 4 min read
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President Bush’s re-election campaign is refusing to withdraw an ad containing Nazi imagery from its Web site, despite severe criticism from Jewish organizations and from the Republican chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. The ad uses pictures and audio of a shouting Adolf Hitler, juxtaposing them with images of heated rhetoric from former Vice…

By E.J. Kessler Jul 2, 2004 | 5 min read
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Bill’s Bigs: “The American-Jewish community has been very good to me,” former President Clinton writes on Page 947 of his new memoir, “My Life.” You know it, baby. Without American Jews, Clinton couldn’t have funded his campaigns or run his administration. But what’s more, he genuinely has an affinity for Jews, as many of his…

By E.J. Kessler Jun 25, 2004 | 6 min read
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The church-state issue is erupting in the presidential race, with a top White House aide speaking of a religious-secular “culture war” and the Bush re-election team launching a nationwide program to recruit religious congregations to distribute campaign material to voters. Republican members of Congress, meanwhile, have introduced legislation to allow sectarian organizations to endorse candidates….

By E.J. Kessler Jun 11, 2004 | 4 min read
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In one of the most expensive House races in the country, the lone Jew in Texas’s congressional delegation is lashing out at his opponent by linking him to an anti-immigration group producing racially charged ads, and to conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, who has compared the estate tax to the Holocaust. The goal for Rep….

By E.J. Kessler May 21, 2004 | 4 min read
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Clap, Clap (Grumble, Grumble): President Bush got more than 20 standing ovations during his speech this week at the annual policy conference of Aipac, the pro-Israel lobbying powerhouse. At one point he was interrupted by a lengthy chant of “four more years,” prompting Aipac president Amy Friedkin, a Democrat, to joke to Bush that she…

By E.J. Kessler May 21, 2004 | 4 min read
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Kerry Critique: The campaign of John Kerry is missing an opportunity to criticize President Bush’s lack of adroitness in selling Prime Minister Sharon’s disengagement plan internationally, some Democrats are saying. Others feel that Kerry should be attacking the president for immediately backtracking on his promises to Sharon. In other words, hit him from the left,…

By E.J. Kessler May 14, 2004 | 4 min read
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Charming Kerry: Seeking to show an important Jewish communal group how his experiences visiting Israel had affected him personally, John Kerry told a number of stories during a speech Monday at the annual conference in Washington of the Anti-Defamation League. Before a crowd of more than 500, Kerry spoke about his trips to Israel and…

By E.J. Kessler May 7, 2004 | 3 min read

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