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David Axelrod has a clear memory of the roasted turkey leg he received in a care package at the White House. “It was the size of a war club,” he said. A friend had shipped it to Axelrod, then senior advisor to President Barack Obama. He figured Axelrod missed the Wednesday Turkey Leg special offered…
The University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics is a hive of activity. Students are testing out a theory in the lobby; another group is peppering a visiting fellow with questions, and upstairs, staffers are researching an upcoming guest. Presiding over it all is the institute’s founder and director, David Axelrod, senior adviser to Barack Obama…
David Axelrod laced into President Trump after the administration’s first televised cabinet meeting, blasting the event in which the president’s department secretaries praised in over-the-top terms as reminiscent of a totalitarian regime. “I think it was embarrassing,” Axelrod, the “brain” of former President Barack Obama, said on CNN. “I think the president would have burst…
It was the third game of the Giants-Cubs National League playoffs, going into extra innings. The winner of the best-of-seven series, which the Cubs led 2-1, would go on to the World Series. All of Chicago was watching on that Wednesday evening, October 10, praying for the Cubs’ first World Series appearance since 1945 —…
(JTA) — When David Axelrod, then a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, first learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly had referred to him and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as “self-hating Jews,” he remembers feeling stung. “For people to suggest that I would be anti-Israel or worse, anti-Semitic – it…
Glass Half Full: With the election 29 days away, Democrats are gaining hope as polls make them out to be more competitive than they seemed over the summer. Or at least talking heads are saying so: As Axelrod said last week in Google/Politico’s election preview, “You’re going to see Democrats winning in places that you…
Rahm Emanuel is leaving, David Axelrod might be on his way out, Larry Summers will be gone by the fall, and Peter Orszag has already moved on. Are there any Jews left in the White House? The latest wave of departures of senior White House advisers seems to have taken its toll on the Jewish…
-Philanthropist and liberal activist George Soros has been funding J Street, the Washington Times has revealed. Though J Street’s executive director, Jeremy Ben Ami, has denied any donations to the dovish group by Soros in the past, tax records reveal that Soros and his two children have contributed a total $245,000 to J Street from…
