This is the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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News Republican Jewish Leader Claims Win in Obama Victory
UPDATED 8:21 A.M With exit polls showing that Democrat Barack Obama won an estimated 77 percent of the Jewish vote, you would think that all Republicans would be disappointed. Yet other than the fact that Obama won, Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, is declaring the election a success. “The reality is…
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News Palin Questions Obama’s Israel Support; Wasserman Schultz Says ‘Look Who’s Talking’
Hello pot, the kettle’s on Line 3. Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who doesn’t exactly have the strongest bona fides when it comes to Israel or any foreign policy, is questioning whether Democrat Barack Obama is really as staunch a supporter of Israel as he contends. CBS News reports that at a rally in…
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News Pa. Republicans Fire Strategist Over Obama ‘Smear’ E-Mail
The Pennsylvania Republican State Party has fired a strategist over an e-mail sent to Jewish voters that warns a vote for Barack Obama would be a “tragic mistake” with parallels to the “ignored warning signs of the 1930s and 1940s.” The e-mail, which a GOP spokesman says was sent without the party’s authorization, falsely warns…
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News National, Fla. Polls Show Obama Gaining Support Among Jewish Voters
It’s a little early for Barack Obama’s campaign to breath a sigh of relief and say a few Amens, but two new polls of Jewish voters offer some good news for the Democratic presidential nominee. An analysis by Gallup based on its daily tracking poll and interviews with more than 500 Jewish voters shows that…
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News Middle East Envoy Suffers Envy
Dennis Ross, the former Middle East envoy, has been spending a lot of time on the road and in synagogues these days. Since joining joining Barack Obama on a Middle East trip and then publicly coming out in support of the Democratic presidential nominee, Ross has been on a tour of the Jewish community in…
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News A Debate Detente Between Jewish Republicans and Democrats?
Representatives of the Republican Jewish Coalition and National Jewish Democratic Council usually spend much of their time trading charges, accusing each other of smears and other assorted provocations. So it was perhaps a little surprising, to say the least, to see the partisan groups come together for tonight’s final presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama…
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News ‘Independent’ Lieberman on the Synagogue Tour for McCain
Campaigning as a “Democrat who was re-elected as independent now here to support a Republican for president,” U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman told Jewish voters in southeastern Pennsylvania that he remains convinced that Republican John McCain is the best candidate to lead the country even as the focus of the election has shifted from national security…
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News McCain, Obama Allies Hope to Reassure Jewish Buckeyes
Ohio’s Jewish community is getting lots of love from presidential surrogates this Columbus Day weekend. U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the independent Connecticut Democrat and 2000 vice presidential nominee, is meeting with Jewish communal leaders over breakfast this morning outside of Cleveland to emphasize his belief that Republican John McCain is the bettered prepared candidate to…
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