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GOP Staffer Threatens Tel Aviv U
According to this story in yesterday’s Chicago Sun-Times, Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, a three-term Illinois Republican, is facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from Democrat Dan Seals. In the Sun-Times, a staffer for Kirk sent a threatening email to a representative of Tel Aviv University with the goal of having the school’s president pressure a supporter…
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House Dems Holding Online Town Hall On Israel At Noon
Here’s the Info: WHO: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) Congressman Gene Green (D-TX) Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA) WHAT: Democratic Online Town Hall on Israel WHEN: Friday, October 27 at Noon EST WHERE: The Democratic Caucus Online Town Hall Web site http://demcaucus.townhall.house.gov/
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UPDATED: GOP Flier in Tennessee Draws Criticism
The Tennessee Republican Party has sent out a flier with the tag line “Vote early to preserve your way of life” across the top. Among the recipients of the flier was Rabbi Louis Zivic of Knoxville’s Heska Amuna Synagogue, who described the phrase as racially charged. “I think it’s a subtle message, but it’s well…
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Not All Jews Vote Like Puerto Ricans
We have a story this week on the American Jewish Committee’s 2006 survey on American Jewish opinion noting that the majority of Jewish voters identify as Democrats and liberals. The picture is more complex when denominational differences are taken into account. • 56% of Orthodox Jews support the United States taking military action against Iran…
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Bob Corker Takes Ford Jr. to Task Over Brother Jake’s Campaign
According to Nashville’s NewsChannel 5: “A spokesman for the Bob Corker senatorial campaign says Ford Junior hasn’t endorsed the Democratic candidate over his brother and that proves his “first loyalty is to the Ford political machine.” Those who have been following Tennessee politics know that Ford Jr. has not endorsed Steve Cohen, the Democrat nominee…
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Pelosi Works To Shore Up Image
When the news broke last week that former President Jimmy Carter is set to release a book highly critical of Israel, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi quickly issued a statement denouncing the views of her fellow Democrat. “With all due respect,” Pelosi declared in a written statement, “he does not speak for the Democratic Party…
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Matt Brooks to Ira Forman: Don’t Lie!
RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks had sharp words for NJDC’s Ira Forman, in response to Forman’s call for a November 2 debate between the two men. “He’s just being disingenuous, which is somewhat typical for the stuff he puts out,” Brooks told the Forward this afternoon. Brooks pointed out that the RJC and NJDC have…
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Argentina Issues Iran Indictment
In a long-awaited indictment, Argentinean prosecutors have accused the top Iranian leadership of masterminding the 1994 bombing of the Jewish communal center in Buenos Aires and asked the judge in charge of the case to issue arrest warrants against seven Iranian leaders, including former president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani. The indictment reprises most of the charges…
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Evangelicals Press for U.S. Action on Darfur
Evangelical Christians are stepping up pressure on the White House to take a more aggressive approach to stop the killing in the Darfur region of the Sudan. The evangelical campaign was launched last week with newspaper ads titled, “Without you, Mr. President, Darfur doesn’t have a prayer.” In a direct appeal to Bush, who has…
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Ira Forman to Matt Brooks: Debate Me!
It doesn’t look like the NJDC-RJC grudge match is ending anytime soon. As we reported in our pages last week, the two Jewish partisan groups have been arguing for weeks about which party is better on Israel. Now, Ira Forman, the executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, is challenging Republican Jewish Coalition executive…
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Clinton, Shays
Tonight, NORPAC holds a private, $2,100 minimum donation fundraiser with Sen. Hillary Clinton. Rep. Chris Shays appears with fomer White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer at foreign policy discussion hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition tomorrow evening in Stamford, Connecticut.
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