Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Santorum Sinks, Turns to Jewish Allies
As he battles from behind in the polls, Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum is calling on his Jewish friends to help catapult him to a third term in the United States Senate. Next week, he will host a “Jewish Leadership Summit” in Washington for prominent Republican invitees, including White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, Senate…
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News Expected Stem-cell Vote Poses Dilemmas for Republican Hopefuls
The presidential elections are more than two years away, but some Beltway insiders are already dubbing the Senate’s impending consideration of embryonic stem-cell research “a 2008 vote.” The issue, which is slated for an up-or-down vote on July 18, is heating up a year after Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and likely…
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News Texas GOP: U.S. Is a Christian Nation
The Texas Republican Party issued its platform earlier this month, declaring America a “Christian nation” and describing the concept of separation of church and state as a “myth.” The 31-page platform, adopted by the party’s state convention, carries over language used in the Texas GOP platforms in 2002 and 2004. As in past years, state…
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News Race, Religion Emerge In Memphis Campaign
As a crowded race to represent a heavily black congressional district in Tennessee turns rough-and-tumble, one white candidate is saying he has been the target of anti-Jewish campaign tactics. Fourteen Democratic candidates — including Steve Cohen, a 24-year veteran of the state Senate — are vying to represent Tennessee’s ninth district. The area encompasses nearly…
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News Mexican Leftist’s Backers Run From Chavez Label
MEXICO CITY — With less than two weeks to go in Mexico’s highly polarized, too-close-to-call presidential contest, a top Jewish adviser to leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador insists that the contender would focus his attention on domestic policy while steering clear of contentious foreign policy matters. When López Obrador “gets to the presidency, he’s…
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News Pro-Israel Donors Rally For Joe, as Left Takes Aim
With Senator Joseph Lieberman facing an increasingly tight primary fight, pro-Israel interest groups are stepping up their support for the former vice presidential candidate. Lieberman will face Ned Lamont — a Greenwich, Conn., multimillionaire backed by party liberals unhappy with Lieberman’s support for the Iraq War and perceived coziness with Republicans — in Connecticut’s August…
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News Religious Conservatives Rush To Cheer Automaker’s Troubles
For Detroit’s executives and union leaders, plummeting auto sales and stock prices are foreboding harbingers of a faltering industry. But some Christian conservative activists are hailing the bad numbers as a victory. Three months after launching a boycott against Ford Motor Co. to protest the firm’s ties to gay and lesbian advocacy groups and publications,…
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News Dems Divided Over Reports of Stolen 2004 Election
An article by a scion of the Kennedy family charging that Republicans stole the 2004 election is dividing Democrats over the merits of turning the issue into a political rallying cry. Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s piece, “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?” appeared in Rolling Stone magazine June 1, liberals have disagreed not only about…
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