E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News Zionist Election Has High Stakes, Strange Pairings
Although America’s midterm congressional elections are a year away, balloting is underway right now for another congress with high stakes and some very strange political bedfellows. The election will choose the 145 American delegates to the World Zionist Congress, a quadrennial event scheduled to convene in Jerusalem in June 2006. While the voting has drawn…
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News Fed Nominee Bernanke Was Molded By Upbringing in Small-town South
When Ben Shalom Bernanke, President Bush’s nominee to be the new Federal Reserve chairman, was a teenager in the small town of Dillon, S.C., in the 1960s, he helped lead services and roll the Torah scrolls in the town’s synagogue. Judaism remains a part of Bernanke’s life, but the Princeton University economist does not wear…
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News Blasts Campaign To ‘Christianize’ American Life
Warning of a growing campaign to “Christianize America,” the national director of the Anti-Defamation League is calling on Jewish organizations to join him in coordinating a communal strategy for confronting the political and cultural initiatives of religious conservative groups. In a speech last week at the ADL’s national conference in New York, Abraham Foxman blasted…
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News Supreme Court Pick Presenting Test for Leading GOP Moderate
The confirmation battle over President Bush’s conservative Supreme Court nominee, Judge Samuel Alito, is likely to pose a daunting political test for the GOP chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter. Bush chose Alito, 55, a federal judge on the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals, to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, following…
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News Hot Seat Expected for New Chair of Corporation for Public Broadcasting
As Republican fund raiser and pro-Israel activist Cheryl Halpern assumes the chairmanship of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, she is taking on what has become one of the most politically charged jobs in Washington — and activists on all sides are waiting to see whether she revives some of the controversial practices of her conservative…
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News Union, Jewish Groups Unite To Help Low-wage Workers
An ad hoc coalition of liberal Jewish organizations is teaming up with a national labor union in order to promote social justice for low-wage workers in eight cities, after the success of a similar partnership in Los Angeles. The coalition — comprising groups in New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and…
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News In Defending Court Pick, Backers Cite Miers’s Faith
As the Bush administration scrambles to counter conservative opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, White House allies are citing her membership in an evangelical Christian church as a key credential. Many conservatives have attacked the selection of Miers, currently White House counsel, as Supreme Court nominee, saying she lacks experience in constitutional…
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News Houston Jews Feeling Mixed On Indictment Of Tom DeLay
As national Democrats express glee at the troubles of Rep. Tom DeLay, Texas Jews are greeting his problems with mixed emotions. DeLay, the Republican from Sugar Land, Texas, who was forced to step down as House majority leader last week because of an indictment on a campaign finance charge, counts both staunch friends and foes…
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