Barack Obama’s Jewish YouTube Campaign

By Daniel Treiman March 4, 2008

Barack Obama’s campaign is taking its Jewish outreach strategy to YouTube with a pair of videos of him talking about Israel.

The first video is a recorded message to the people of Sderot, which was shown at the recent “Live for Sderot” fund-raiser in Los Angeles:

The second features excerpts of his recent remarks to Jewish leaders in Cleveland:

Hat tip: The L.A. Jewish Journal’s Brad Greenberg and Dikla Kodesh

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