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  Ed Koch Weighs In for Obama

  With the presidential election only days away, it is time for both campaigns to pull out their strongest arguments and best presenters in order to make that final push just a little bit more effective. For Jewish Democrats, this means getting out Ed Koch, former mayor of New York, for a warm endorsement of President…

  By Nathan Guttman

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  Is Bibi Obsessed With Iran?

  Everyone said that here in Israel we’d see an election that is all a about Iran, and today the largest opposition party started to set that agenda. “Netanyahu is entangling us,” Kadima’s newly-revealed election slogan claims. The Hebrew word “entangling” has the strong connotation of endangerment. Kadima’s claim is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head…

  By Nathan Jeffay Nov 2, 2012 | 2 min read
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  Call Your Zeyde

  It’s The Great Schlep redux. Taking a page from its 2008 video urging young people to do whatever it takes to get their grandparents to vote for President Barack Obama, the Jewish Council for Education and Research has put out “Call Your Zeyde” with a week to go before the election. This time, it’s not…

  By Renee Ghert-Zand Nov 1, 2012 | < 1 min read

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  Sandy’s Lessons

  The city that never sleeps was uncharacteristically quiet as Hurricane Sandy swept through on Monday, October 29: Mass transit shut down, residents scattered to their homes, commerce halted, the usual frenetic energy on streets and byways dialed back to zero. It was as if the entire metropolitan area were taking one big Shabbat nap. But…

  Nov 1, 2012 | 4 min read
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  A Message to Forward Readers

  Dear Reader: Everyone on the East Coast has a story about experiencing Hurricane Sandy. You’ve already seen some of these stories on our website, forward.com, describing the storm’s impact on hard-hit Jewish communities and individuals. All this has been reported, edited and published despite devastation across the region and unprecedented flooding that has made our…

  By Samuel Norich Nov 1, 2012 | < 1 min read
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  Norm Coleman Says Mitt Won’t Reverse ‘Roe’

  Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman has been making the rounds for the Republican Jewish Committee, joining former Bush White House spokesman Ari Flesicher and RJC director Matt Brooks in shuttling through swing states speaking to Jewish voters. The trio has visited Ohio, Florida, Nevada and, well, Florida once again, speaking mainly on issues relating to…

  By Nathan Guttman Oct 31, 2012 | 2 min read
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  Memo to GOP: It’s the Economy

  One of the fatal mistakes of the Republican Party and its supporters is their relentless effort to get Jews to vote for the GOP by hammering the issue of Israel. The mistake here is that Israel is the most important election issue to only 6% to 7% of Jewish voters, according to multiple polls. So…

  By Yossi Gestetner Oct 30, 2012 | 3 min read
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  Sandy’s Biblical Threat

  Hurricane Sandy won’t last 40 days and 40 nights, but it still seems pretty Biblical to some. Flooding has already been reported in parts of Manhattan and Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for the evacuation of residents in low-lying Zone A. Despite power and heat set to be shut off in public housing complexes in the…

  By Ari Paul Oct 29, 2012 | < 1 min read
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  Sympathy for the Undecided

  We are days away from the end of this election cycle, which also means it’s open season on that much ridiculed, mystifying yet rare species: the undecided voter. A mock commercial on “Saturday Night Live” captured the general disdain toward the folks we are repeatedly told will tip this election. In it, a series of…

  By Gal Beckerman Oct 29, 2012 | 4 min read
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  31 Jews in Congress

  As the election enters its final stretch, the Forward is making some final projections for our congressional scorecard based on the latest polling results. We now predict at least 31 Jews — 10 in the Senate and 21 in the House of Representatives — will serve in the next Congress, a slight rise from the…

  By Nathan Guttman Oct 29, 2012 | 2 min read
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  Sandy: Climate Change You Can Believe In

  Climate change didn’t come up in any of the three debates, though Candy Crowley did mention it in passing, if only to note that it wasn’t going to be discussed. In fact, it’s hardly been mentioned in the entire campaign, even though, as I wrote last week, it is one of the most important issues…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 29, 2012 | 3 min read