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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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Majority of American Jews Opposed to Military Action Against Iran, AJC Poll Finds
The American Jewish Committee released its annual survey of American Jewish opinion yesterday. There are a number of interesting findings about Jewish views, on topics that range from Middle East peace, to foreign policy to antisemitism. One interesting tidbit: Thirty-eight percent of American Jews would support U.S. military action against Iran to prevent it from…
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Abramoff Gets A Desk at the FBI
from the US News & World Report Washington Whispers blog: Jack Abramoff, the lobbying scandal figure, has become such a chatty rat that probe insiders say he’s been given a desk to work at in the FBI. We’re told he spends up to four hours a day detailing his shady business to agents eager to…
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Dean and Pelosi: Carter’s Wrong on Israel
Democratic leaders are speaking out against former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial new book on Israel, titled “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” On Friday, DNC Chairman Howard Dean and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi both issued written statements, included below in their entirety. Dean: “While I have tremendous respect for former President Carter, I fundamentally disagree and…
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John Yarmuth: Paying the Minimum?
With Election Day around corner, the gloves are coming off in television ads across the country. In Indiana’s third congressional district, Republican Rep. Anne Northrup is accusing Democratic challenger John Yarmuth of paying minimum wage at his family’s restaurant chain, Sonny’s Barbeque. Yarmuth told Louisville’s Wave3 TV that he belives the minium wage – $5.15…
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Obama Considers 2008 Run
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has backed off of his previous statements, made after the 2004 elections, that he would serve out his full six-year Senate term. On Sunday morning, he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he is considering a 2008 run, but will not make up his mind until after the November 7…
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