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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Figures released last week from the Congressional Budget Office show a record $422 billion U.S. budget deficit this year — and a projected 10-year deficit of $4.5 trillion if President Bush succeeds in getting Congress to make his tax cuts permanent. Democrats, including presidential nominee Senator John Kerry, were quick to seize on the statistics…
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Bush Ripped Over Influx Of Hezbollah Into America
The Bush administration has failed to act against a major Hezbollah infiltration of the United States, Senator Bob Graham told the Forward. In an exclusive interview, Graham, a Florida Democrat and former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite militant organization, has more trained operatives in America than Al…
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YOM KIPPUR
One day, more than two decades ago, I walked into a Jerusalem bookstore — and stepped into a mystery. At the store, I met a man who was shopping named Reb Moshe Ashbel, an elderly, white-bearded Russian immigrant. As we got to know each other, Ashbel told me that he was a Lubavitch Hasid, a…
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Syrian Offer of Talks Throws A Wrench Into Sharon’s Plans
TEL AVIV — As if he didn’t have enough problems, what with mounting right-wing opposition to his disengagement plan, Palestinian terrorism stirring anew and his governing coalition in turmoil, Prime Minister Sharon now has trouble on his northern front. Syria, Israel’s most intractable foe, is offering to make peace. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made the…
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New Editor Appointed at Jerusalem Post (correction)
In “New Editor Appointed at Jerusalem Post” (September 10), the newly appointed editor’s name was misspelled. It is David Horovitz. In addition, Bret Stephens’s previous job at the Wall Street Journal was misidentified; he was previously an editorial writer, and will now be on the paper’s editorial board.
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Newsdesk September 17, 2004
WJC Set for Showdown The controversy at the World Jewish Congress heated up this week, with one official claiming the organization’s chairman obtained e-mails and memos from his personal computer and leaked them to the media. In a memo issued this week to WJC leaders, the organization’s senior vice president, Isi Leibler, said that he…
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Zell Miller’s Speech Marks Political Parties’ Evolution
Zell Miller, The Senator From Georgia, might have made history at the Republican Convention on several scores with his volley of vicious vituperation directed against his former party and its candidate for president. First, the simple nastiness of tone and content must earn him a place in the annals of those in prominent political life…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Sunshine State Scuttlebutt: The chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, Bush friend Fred Zeidman, has joined the Bush-Cheney campaign in Florida to help get out the president’s Jewish vote there. Zeidman said he is helping Florida Jewish outreach coordinator Diane Sembler, having resigned from the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition in order to…
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In Hot Pursuit of the Sexy Swingers
Call them the “Sexy 16.” Every four years, some of the most prominent guys in America set out in hot pursuit of these elusive creatures. This year, they are being chased heatedly by two mucho macho hombres by the name of George Bush and John Kerry. Apparently, what makes these 16 so desirable is their…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Corsi Conciliation: Jerome Corsi, the co-author of the anti-John Kerry book “Unfit for Command” — who recently apologized publicly for some coarse comments about Muslims, Catholics and Jews that he posted on a right-wing Web site, freerepublic.com — called the Forward on Tuesday to attest to his pro-Jewish bona fides. “I have created two mutual…
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Boundaries Blur for Communal Leaders, Israeli Officials
WASHINGTON — A handful of Jewish communal officials were summoned about one year ago to the Israeli Embassy in Washington for a briefing on Iran. The meeting featured a computerized presentation from Israeli diplomats pointing to Iran as the party responsible for the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, which killed 86…
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