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who say, 'Arrest everybody and
Chertoff was the sole Republican
throw away the key'; on the other
U.S. attorney who Bill Clinton kept
you have those who say, 'Don't you
in place after assuming the presiden-
ever profile Arabs,'" Twersky said.
cy in 1993, on the recommendation
"The point is to find someone
of then-Sen. Bill Bradley of New
who reconciles these different imper-
Jersey, himself a liberal Democrat,
and largely on the basis of Chertoff's atives. Chertoff is precisely the guy
to pull this off."
success in pursuing mob figures.
Stuart Deutsch, the dean of
Chertoff also was the lead figure in
Rutgers Law School, said Chertoff
persuading Israel to send back to the
exhibited sensitivity to both sides of
United States "Crazy" Eddie Antar,
the issue when he delivered the
the discount electronics mogul who
school's 2003 lecture named for Paul
had sought refuge in the Jewish state
Miller, the AJCongress president
and was convicted of stock fraud.
who is also a
He went on to
Rutgers benefactor.
become a special
"The lecture was
counselor for the
a historical analysis
Whitewater corn-
"He's someone who
of how we have
mittee from 1994
swung back and
to 1996, and had a
understands the
forth between
reputation for
security and civil
toughness,
liberty situations,"
although he quit
balance we need
Deutsch said. "He
just before that
clearly felt that it
investigation of the
between protecting
was important to
Clintons turned
react to Sept. 11,
rancorous.
people on the one
2001; on the other
Still, Sen. Hilary
hand, he certainly
Clinton, D-N.Y.,
hand, and tools to
said we need to be
was the sole dis-
worried
about how
senter in his most
protect our safety
far we go to the
recent confirma-
extent that we go
tion, for appeals
— and also not
too far on the side
court judge.
of security."
But Chertoff is
to destroy our
It is also seen as
not partisan in his
a plus that
toughness: His
American values."
Chertoff, like
2001 investigation
Kerik, is from the
into charges that
region most imme-
New Jersey State
—AJ Congress President
diately affected by
Supreme Court
Paul Miller
the Sept. 11
Judge Peter
attacks, and also
Verniero had, as
the area with the
attorney general,
highest Jewish concentration.
suppressed evidence of racial profil-
Residents of the area say they have
ing led Verniero to resign. Verniero
been underfunded by the department.
had been a prince in the New Jersey
"Someone who comes from New
Republican establishment.
Jersey and from this region might
appreciate the issues facing us in
More Impressions
terms of the funding formula for
Homeland Security dollars," said
Chertoff is a classic Rockefeller
Lori Price Abrams, the director of
Republican, a moderate who knows
the community relations committee
how to talk to all sides, said David
for the MetroWest federation. "The
Twersky, who was an editor of the
allocations do under-award us."
New Jersey Jewish News in the 1990s
Jewish institutions must now corn-
when Chertoff was U.S. attorney in
pete for Homeland Security funds
the state.
funneled through the states. At the
That political positioning makes
same time, Congress has appropriat-
Chertoff the right choice for run-
ed but not yet authorized a $25 mil-
ning Homeland Security as the
lion fund for security for nonprofit
department has come under increas-
institutions.
ing criticism for heavy handedness,
The federal money would be
said Twersky, now the international
more immediately available to
affairs director for the American
Jewish groups than the state funds
Jewish Congress.
have been. ❑
"On the one hand, we have people