E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News El Al Moves To Avoid Tiff With Big Labor
El Al Israel Airlines is reportedly moving to extricate itself from a contract with a New York hotel involved in a labor dispute, after several American unions warned that the airline’s patronage of the hotel “might jeopardize some of the U.S. trade union movement’s historic support for Israel” and “impact the rather significant investment of…
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News Gen. Clark’s Next War: Conquer the Democrats?
As President Bush beats the drums for war with Iraq and the Democratic presidential candidates scramble to articulate their own foreign policy visions, one figure on the national political scene is bringing military credentials earned more recently than the Vietnam War era to bear on the debate. That figure is General Wesley Clark, the supreme…
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News States Put Up Fight, Dollars To Defeat Divestment Push
New York is the latest state to adopt measures to counter the movement to force governments and universities to withdraw their investments in Israel. The state’s second highest-ranking official, Comptroller Alan Hevesi, told the Forward that he intends to increase the investments of the state’s $105 billion pension in Israel, and has spoken to entrepreneurs…
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Culture Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Bets on Education Start-up
aura Lauder has a thing for start-ups. In the 1990s, the now 42-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur staked her professional career on one of the Holy Grails of the digital boom — interactive cable television, a platform that allows two-way, multimedia communication between television and the Internet. The company she worked for, ICTV, sells a groovy…
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News Republican Jews: We’ll Take Manhattan
The Republican Jewish Coalition is planning to open an office in New York, in support of the GOP’s anticipated invasion of the Democratic — and Jewish — heartland when it mounts its 2004 national convention in Gotham. Republican strategists have been eyeing a plan to peel off Jewish support for the eventual Democratic nominee by…
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News Sharpton Will Seek Jewish Dollars, Says an Aide
Reverend Al Sharpton is seeking campaign contributions from the Jewish community like any other presidential candidate, according to his political adviser. Former Bronx Democratic Party chairman Roberto Ramirez told the Forward that Sharpton’s “progressive, populist and clear message” would attract Jewish campaign dollars despite his often dicey relations with the community. The civil rights firebrand…
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News Orthodox, Hawks Blasting Joe For Remarks on Mideast Trip
As the 2004 presidential race gets under way, Senator Joseph Lieberman appears to have damaged his support among hawkish and Orthodox Jews with statements he made during a recent trip to the Middle East. At news conferences during the trip, the Connecticut lawmaker expressed support for a Palestinian state, deplored poor humanitarian conditions in the…
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News Sunshine State Oddsmakers See Battle in Lieberman vs. Graham
Call it early-bird politics. The possible entrance of Florida Senator Bob Graham into the race for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination already is prompting speculation that he would split the vote and funds of the Sunshine State’s Jewish community, complicating the expected presidential bid of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman. Neither man has declared his candidacy,…
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