Obama raises $32 million, besting Clinton’s $27 million.
OPRAH RECALLS AUSCHWITZ VISIT AT WIESEL FOUNDATION DINNER “When Moses spoke in the desert there were 600,000. When Oprah [Winfrey] speaks, millions listen,” said a visibly awed Elie Wiesel at the May 20 Elie Wiesel Foundation Humanitarian Award dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. Winfrey was honored at the dinner. Emceed by Barbara Walters, the event was…
With the June 30 filing deadline for second quarter fundraising fast approaching, the Clinton campaign is once again telling supporters know it expects to be outraised by Team Obama. “We expect to bring in about what we did in the First Quarter, or slightly more, which should put us in the range of $27 million,”…
As the June 30 campaign filing deadlline approaches, Democrats are sure to renew their calls for scrutiny of Tom Loeffler, campaign co-chair for John McCain. Loeffler’s lobbying firm, the Loeffler Group, has represented Saudi Arabia in its campaign to win admission to the World Trade Organization, something that McCain has gone on record opposing. According…
Washington – Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli prime minister and the front-runner for that position once again, barnstormed Washington this week in what looked like a pre-emptive victory lap. In the wake of a recent visit by embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud party, met with New York Senator Hillary Clinton,…
In the summer of 2002, Simcha Felder, an Orthodox Jew and Democratic state assemblyman representing the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park, arranged a 500-person community breakfast between his constituents and Michael Bloomberg. As Felder tells it, people in the neighborhood were livid about the new mayor’s hike on real estate taxes — so…
As far as Peruvian Rabbi Elias Szczytnicki could tell, Ira Rennert seemed like a guy with whom he could develop a rapport. Rennert, a controversial Orthodox billionaire, has served as chairman of the tony Fifth Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan and has been described by Elie Wiesel as “a deeply, deeply religious man.” But while on…
San Francisco – Clang, clang, clang went the trolley, ding, ding, ding, went the rabbi….” Or, maybe, “I left my mitzvah… in San Franciscah….” Sing it however you’d like, as long as you sing it with good intentions. That, at least, seems to be the philosophy behind the new Chabad Cable Car here. Operated by…
At Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, Jewish campers wake up every morning at 7:30 and daven the morning prayers. After some swimming or maybe a Frisbee game, the older kids can, if they want, daven again in the afternoon. And at the end of a day that includes a 45-minute Judaic learning session, well, they…
Boston – At a June 20 meeting at a synagogue in the Boston suburbs, a pro-Israel group quickened the drum beat against a local Muslim group accused of receiving funding from Saudi Arabia. Charles Jacobs, president of The David Project, received a standing ovation from a crowd at Kehillath Israel Synagogue in Brookline after he…
Challenger Wins at EJC In a watershed election, Russian tycoon Moshe Kantor won the presidency of the European Jewish Congress, marking the first time that an Eastern European has taken the reins of an international Jewish organization. In the secret-ballot election, Kantor won 55 votes. The incumbent, Pierre Besnainou, won 30 votes in the bitterly…
