E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News Jewish Representative Rises In House’s Republican Ranks
With the indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives, is climbing up the GOP leadership ladder. Cantor — who is chief deputy majority whip, the fourth-ranking House leadership post — is gaining added responsibilities as Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, the third-ranking…
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News Philly D.A. Feuds With Church Over Abuse
Philadelphia’s “tough cookie” Jewish district attorney is feuding with the Catholic Church over a report her office issued last week alleging five decades of child sexual abuse by priests in the local archdiocese. The district attorney, Lynne Abraham, released the 418-page grand jury report, the culmination of a 40-month investigation, at a September 21 press…
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News Bloomberg Blurs Party Lines in Bid for Jewish Votes
New York’s Republican mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is leaving nothing to chance in his bid to lock up the Jewish vote in November. In recent days, the mayor has launched a high-profile “Democrats for Bloomberg” group featuring several icons of New York Jewish liberalism. He hired Governor George Pataki’s Jewish outreach director and declared his opposition…
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News Controversial New York Pol Gets the Boot
The ousting this week of an unpopular ally, New York Independence Party leader Lenora Fulani, is expected to bring about some benefits for New York’s Republican mayor, Michael Bloomberg. Fulani, an erstwhile Marxist and perennial fringe candidate whom many New Yorkers consider antisemitic, was a leader of the Independence Party’s downstate faction. She and five…
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News Touring Mideast, Dean Praises Sharon
While traveling in the Middle East this week, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean offered President Bush some diplomatic advice. “If President Bush wants to accelerate the peace process, he has to watch out for the stability of Jordan,” Dean said during a telephone interview from Israel. “The Jordanians are under pressure because of rising…
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News Giuliani Endorsed Conservative Christian in Ohio
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani last week stood behind his endorsement of a Cincinnati Republican mayoral candidate who once wrote that “only born-again believers” should be elected to public office. Giuliani endorsed the candidate, Charles Winburn, during a September 7 visit to the southern Ohio city. A picture of Giuliani was displayed prominently on…
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News Professors Plan To Boycott Bush Speech
As President Bush’s popularity plunged this week in the post-Hurricane Katrina polls, several academics were planning to boycott his keynote speech Wednesday at a gala dinner in Washington. The event, to be held at the National Building Museum, was held in celebration of the 350th anniversary of Jews in America. The professors — including New…
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News Pols Split on Probe of Response to Storm
As the Senate this week began to investigate what went wrong with the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, Jewish elected officials on opposite sides of the aisle offered sharply different approaches to answering the question. Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, took the lead in demanding that the president appoint an independent panel along…
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