E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
WASHINGTON — Two months after the head of the Anti-Defamation League called for a united Jewish front against evangelical attempts to “Christianize” America, the ADL found itself pitted against a raft of other communal organizations in a controversy over guidelines for religious speech in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force released revised interim guidelines…
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News Boehner Draws Mixed Response
The Republican leadership scramble set off by the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal has led to the selection of a new House majority leader who is at odds with most Jewish groups on most key issues of religion and state. It also has halted — at least for now — the rise of the sole Jewish…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Cranston Contender: The Republican mayor of Cranston, R.I., Stephen Laffey, is hoping to attract pro-Israel money in his primary bid to unseat the state’s liberal GOP incumbent Senator Lincoln Chafee. Providence lawyer Norman Orodenker, a supporter of Laffey who described himself as “active in the Jewish community” and “a lifelong Democrat,” said that the campaign…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
The budget reconciliation package that was expected to pass the House of Representatives on Wednesday contains a measure that could spell disaster for Jewish community-run nursing homes, Jewish communal officials said. Under the Republican proposal, seniors who have transferred assets to relatives would be barred from Medicaid coverage of their nursing home bills for a…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Worries among Jewish groups that President Bush would use his State of the Union speech to unveil a new push for faith-based funding or any other efforts to lower the church-state wall proved unfounded. In his address Tuesday night, Bush pressed a laundry list of domestic initiatives that widely are being described as small in…
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News Agencies Weighing New Court Strategy
The expected confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito is prompting Jewish organizations to re-examine their strategy of bringing cases involving church-state separation and other civil rights matters to the Supreme Court. Officials at several Jewish agencies, including the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism,…
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Israel News ‘Clinton’s Rabbi’ Offers Prayer for N.J. Gov
Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of the Orthodox Union’s worldwide kosher division, knows something about human forgiveness. When his pal President Clinton erred in 1998 with young Monica Lewinsky, Genack beat back other rabbis’ calls for Clinton’s resignation, saying that the repentant president was “transforming anger into contrition.” This week, Genack, known as a Democratic mover…
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News Agencies Weighing New Court Strategy
The expected confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito is prompting Jewish organizations to re-examine their strategy of bringing cases involving church-state separation and other civil rights matters to the Supreme Court. Officials at several Jewish agencies, including the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism,…
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