E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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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 GOPer Tries To Move Up As Scandal Mushrooms
As Rep. Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican, counted votes this week in his bid to become House majority whip, the conflicting perceptions of his own lobbyist ties suggested the depth of the challenge facing Republicans in the mushrooming Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. The leadership bid by Cantor, the sole Jewish Republican in the House, is…
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News Anti-immigration Bill Pits Jewish GOPers Against House Hard-liners
With the passage this week by the House of Representatives of tough new anti-immigration legislation, political observers are warning of a growing rift on the issue between moderate Republicans allied to the White House and party hard-liners in the House. The House passed the bill in a largely party-line vote, with 36 Democrats joining the…
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News Hillary Clinton’s Hawkish Stance Riling Critics on the Jewish Left
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is coming under fire from Jewish anti-war activists who say that her centrist position on Iraq could cost her the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. In the latest sign of the growing discontent among left-wing activists, Jonathan Tasini, a product of the Labor Zionist movement, launched a bid to unseat Clinton…
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News Texas Vote Flap Fuels Gerrymander Charge
The congressional district of a high-ranking Jewish Democrat is at the center of a dispute over whether a reapportionment plan pushed by Texas Republicans illegally diluted minority voting strength. The Dallas-Fort Worth district, which Rep. Martin Frost represented from 1978 to 2004, was eliminated in 2003 by Republicans working on behalf of then-House majority leader…
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News Divestment Declaration
The Democratic National Committee unanimously adopted a resolution at its national meeting in Phoenix on December 3 condemning divestment from Israel. Stating that “efforts to isolate Israel through boycotts or actions that include the possibility of divestment are counterproductive to the search for peace,” the resolution declares the DNC’s “opposition to efforts to boycott, divest…
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News Religion Spat In Air Force Becomes Issue In ’06 Election
In a sign that church-state separation debates could turn stormy next year, the controversy over religious coercion by evangelical Christian officers at the U.S. Air Force Academy is emerging as a 2006 campaign issue — for both sides. Nick Reid, a Republican congressional challenger in Wisconsin, is criticizing 36-year Democratic incumbent Rep. David Obey over…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Iraq Attack: A Florida Democratic congressman’s vote for a resolution calling for a quick American withdrawal from Iraq is reviving some of the heated rhetoric of the 2004 presidential campaign in the Sunshine State. One of three votes for the resolution was cast by Rep. Robert Wexler, who is Jewish. Republicans offered the resolution in…
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