E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
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…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
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…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
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…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
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….
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
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….
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
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…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
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,…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Among the cherished family memorabilia in the home of Inez Tenenbaum, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina, is a signed letter to her father-in-law from Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. “It’s written on this tiny little piece of notebook paper,” Tenenbaum told the Forward in a telephone interview. The note hints…
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