Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Pundit Ripped for Telling Rep To Keep Quran Out of Congress
A conservative pundit popular on the Jewish dinner circuit has aroused a nationwide controversy by rejecting the right of a newly elected Muslim congressman to be sworn in using a Quran. In a November 28 column published on the Web site Townhall.com, radio talkshow host and syndicated columnist Dennis Prager wrote that using Islam’s sacred…
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News Koch Calls for Pundit’s Ouster from Shoah Council
Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch has called for Dennis Prager to resign or be removed from United States Holocaust Memorial Council, in response to the pundit’s recent insistence that a Muslim congressman should not be sworn in using a Quran. “There is no question that Dennis Prager is a bigot who ought to…
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News Florida Democrat’s Star Rising
Newly re-elected to a second term in the U.S. House of Representatives, a Jewish lawmaker from Florida is vying for a seat on one of the most powerful committees in Congress and is a candidate for a high-profile Democratic campaign post. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a good government liberal who is commonly viewed as a Democratic…
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News Intel Post Fuels New Dem Fight In Congress
A California lawmaker’s campaign to become chair of a key congressional committee over the objections of House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi is dividing Jewish lawmakers and failing to attract public support from Jewish groups. For months, speculation has bubbled in Washington over Pelosi’s alleged desire to keep the reins of the House Intelligence Committee out of…
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News GOP Poll Screened Out Unaffiliated Jews
Unaffiliated Jews — or nearly half of the country’s Jewish population — were excluded from the recent election [poll][1] commissioned by the Republican Jewish Coalition. The telephone survey, by conducted by GOP pollster Arthur Finkelstein and based on Election Day interviews with 1,000 Jewish voters in New Jersey, Florida and Pennsylvania, bypassed Jews who never…
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News Surprise Setback on Vietnam Bill Could Signal Major Democratic Fight Over Trade
Opponents of free trade scored a surprise victory in Congress this week, heralding what some activists and observers predict will be an increasingly tough fight about globalization in the years ahead. Days before President Bush was slated to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Hanoi, the administration suffered an embarrassing setback when the House…
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News Carter Discusses New Book on Israel and the Middle East
President Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” (Simon & Schuster), hits the shelves this week. In an interview Wednesday with the Forward, the former president discussed the work and his views on the Middle East. Q: In your book, you often take care to mention that the Palestinians include both Muslims and Christians….
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News Pelosi Faces Possible Fights Over Top Posts
As triumphant Democrats begin a season of post-election jockeying, congressional insiders are speculating that Rep. Tom Lantos could face a challenge for the chairmanship of the House International Relations Committee. Lantos, a prominent foreign policy hawk and initially an outspoken supporter of the war in Iraq, has long raised the ire of more liberal Democrats,…
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