Washington – President-elect Barack Obama will name Julius Genachowski to head the Federal Communications Commission, according to one source close to the transition team and two sources close to key lawmakers.
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Obama’s transition team declined to confirm Genachowski’s nomination.
Genachowski, 46, is a veteran of technology policy having served as chief counsel for former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. He also has business experience as an executive at Internet firms IAC/InterActive and currently as a venture capitalist in Washington.
Obama’s pick for the nation’s head telecommunications regulator has served as the president-elect’s chief technology counsel and was classmates with Obama at Harvard Law School. Genachowski is credited for spearheading Obama’s online campaign strategy, which used social networking and other tools to spread Obama’s campaign message and raise record campaign contributions.
Mr. Genachowsk, attended yeshiva through high school and studied in yeshiva in Israel before going to Columbia and then Harvard, where he met Obama. Julius later clerked for Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Obama and Julius bonded in part because both were outsiders—one a former yeshiva boy and son of immigrants, the other an African American with international roots.
Mr. Genachowski, is the father of three children and is married to Rachel Goslins, a documentary filmmaker. His parents are immigrants who survived the Holocaust. His children attend Gan HaYeled, the preschool at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington
another YID!!!!
Another yid to bolster the minyan at Khal Adas Obama!
SO when obama fails to save the world it is because of the jews?
Unbelievable. This new president isn’t putting together a cabinet and agency heads. He’s putting together an executive branch minyan.
BE”H he’ll enforce moral standards on the media. hatzlocho rabo!
Now You Should All Be Ashamed of Criticizing Obama That He Is An Antisemit As Far As You Can See He Is Hiring More jews to the cabinet which Means He Is A True jew Lover
Who is Obama hiring to give the Daf?!!!
perhaps he will get the chazzan Ms. Jenna Greenberg to chant at his swearing in
These kinds of Jews are Liberals first and Jews, second.
So what does “former” Yeshiva student mean??? Is he FRUM or is he “formerly” Frum?
Maybe this guy can stop all the anti-Jewish/Israel bias in the media & the anti-semitism that floods the airwaves. On the other hand, he’ll probably bend over backwards to protect free speech of those who hate us.
Mincha Minyan at the Oval Office is at 1:15 PM Sunday to Thursday.
Did he nominate Jim Carrey?
For all the conspiracy theorists out there who see something nefarious behind the appointment of so many Jews — wake up. Yidden happen to disproportionately populate the ranks of policy experts and the like. At least the last two administrations — Bush and Clinton — were *loaded* with Jews. It says more about our brainpower as a people and the value our parents put on education than about anything else. So let’s just wish klal yisroel a big yasher koiach and the president-elect hatzlocho rabboh!
When are you vilifying Obama haters going to admit that just maybe you have misjudged the man?
and once again I will ask, “Why is this supposed to make me happy??”
Because the executive branch and both houses are democrats, there was talk of a democratic defeat in 2010, when they mess up with noboby to blame. Obama is taking care of that. All the blame will be placed with the jews…
#31 is correct… hello fairness doctrine.
Has he completed YU’s new course of instruction “BUISNESS ETHICS”? Only in America. Men spend all day studying Talmud, Torah, and the YU is Noted for its many accomplishments, yet finds it needs a program of ETHICS! Sounds like they need better teachers for TALMUD and then STUDY of TORAH!