E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News ‘Dear Judge’: Religion-tinged Letters Praise Good Deeds of Felon Lobbyist
When disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff showed up for court in a black fedora, critics attacked him for hiding behind his Orthodox Judaism. In the end, however, religion may have proved to be his best defense. Abramoff, who pleaded guilty recently to felony charges in Washington and in Florida, received the lightest sentence possible in the…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Texas Two-step: A Jewish woman lawyer is poised to win a Democratic primary runoff and take on incumbent Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Barbara Ann Radnofsky was in New York City last week for campaign events, including a Women’s Campaign Fund cocktail party, a meet-the-candidate night at the Park Avenue home of Diane Chernoff…
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News Embattled Bush Team Gets Boost At Aipac Parley
WASHINGTON — Even as President Bush’s popularity dropped to record lows, his administration was embraced warmly this week by the thousands of delegates at the most influential annual gathering of American Jewish activists. In recent weeks Bush has seen his approval ratings drop to around 35%, leading some analysts to the conclusion that his poll…
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News Dems Tie Israel, Ports
WASHINGTON — Forty-one Democratic members of Congress wrote President Bush March 2 to express their alarm at the Dubai World Ports deal, on the grounds that allowing the United Arab Emirates-owned company could damage Israel’s security. “We write to express our deep concerns regarding your Administration’s decision to allow Dubai Ports World (DP World), a…
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News Democrats Raising Bush Ties To Arabs in Battle Over Ports
As President Bush faces a bipartisan furor from the deal to hand over control of operations at six American ports to a Dubai firm, Democrats are using the controversy to underscore the ties of the administration and its allies to Arab nations. In particular, Democrats are pointing to links between administration cronies and Dubai World…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Abortion Antagonism: The National Jewish Democratic Council’s plan to host a reception for Pennsylvania’s Democratic senatorial candidate next week at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference is drawing criticism from a Jewish Republican. The executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Matt Brooks, says the Jewish Democrats are violating their principles by…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff may have played a key role in setting up a 2002 meeting between President Bush and an Asian leader known for his anti-Jewish speeches, according to a recent report in the Los Angeles Times. The Times reported last week that the Malaysian government paid Abramoff $1.2 million for work in…
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News Stem-cell Issue Viewed as Pitfall for Republicans
WASHINGTON — Democrats are seeking to make embryonic stem-cell research a key issue in the 2006 midterm elections, in a move that is underscoring the party’s closeness with the Jewish community on so-called values questions. This week, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released a strategy memo arguing that “stem-cell research could define ’06 races.” The…
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