Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Bill To Expand Religious Freedom at Work Worries Liberals, Splits Jewish Groups
As gay rights activists and liberal interest groups gear up for a fight against a broad-based religious alliance over a bill to expand rights in the workplace, Jewish organizations are struggling to determine which side to line up on. At issue is a proposed bill, the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, aimed at strengthening a federal…
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News Aipac Prosecutor Caught Up in Justice Department Scandal
The escalating controversy over the Bush administration’s dismissal of eight federal prosecutors has ensnared the high-ranking Justice Department official who brought charges against two pro-Israel advocates for allegedly leaking classified information. In recent weeks, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty has faced intense scrutiny for his role in the firing eight U.S. attorneys last year. Among…
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News Presidential Hopeful Slams Bush for Stance on Syria
Delaware’s Joseph Biden, a senior Democratic senator and presidential candidate, said in an interview this week that the Bush administration has wrongfully kept Israel from opening negotiations with Syria and has missed key opportunities to improve political realities in the Middle East. “It is a mistake not to let Israel, if it wishes to, if…
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News Aipac Conference: Pastor Hailed, Bibi Dissed, Pollard Rejected, While Politicians Preen
Washington – Perhaps the most enthusiastically received speaker at this year’s annual Aipac conference was the fiery evangelical leader Pastor John Hagee. During his speech Sunday night to the 6,000 delegates, he drew no fewer than seven standing ovations, including one that came after he bellowed, “It is 1938, Iran is Germany and Amadinejad is…
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News Barack Obama Steps Up Bid for Jewish Backing
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama stepped up his outreach to potential Jewish backers this week, with an address to pro-Israel supporters in Chicago and the announcement of a fundraising push in South Florida. Speaking at a policy forum held by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Chicago on March 2, the Illinois senator delivered…
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News GOPers Seek To Derail Reform Shuls’ Iraq Pullout Resolution
Jewish Republicans are mounting a campaign to derail a resolution, proposed by leaders of the country’s largest synagogue movement, opposing President Bush’s troop surge in Iraq and calling for a timetable for an American withdrawal. The Reform movement’s 80-person executive committee has slated the resolution for consideration at its March 12 meeting. Last week, in…
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News Speech by Attorney General Sparks Church-State Furor
The Bush administration is being accused of politicizing civil rights enforcement after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used a major address in front of Christian allies to unveil the Justice Department’s stepped-up plan for defending religious liberties. Gonzales presented the new initiative, dubbed the First Freedoms Project, in a February 20 speech in Nashville, Tenn., to…
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News Lieberman Backers Stay Firm, Despite GOP Buzz
As Washington buzzed last week over the possibility that Senator Joseph Lieberman could throw his support to the GOP, several of the independent lawmaker’s most loyal Democratic backers continued to voice support for him. Lieberman — who lost in Connecticut’s Democratic primary last year to businessman Ned Lamont, but won as an independent in the…
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