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 Group Forms To Defend Obama Against Attacks
Ruth Greenspan Bell’s brother kept sending Bell e-mails that suggested Barack Obama was a nefarious foe of the Jewish people, and Bell kept sending ripostes right back. Finally, in late February, she decided she had had enough. “Some of the things he’d gotten on the Internet were so stupid, like this claim that Louis Farrakhan…
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Life Obama and Israel: The Verdict From the Jewish Weeklies
The unease in some sectors of the Jewish community about how Barack Obama would handle U.S. policy toward Israel has been a hot story for Jewish newspapers, and this past week several of their editors weighed in on the ongoing communal jibber-jabber. The New Jersey Jewish News’s Andrew Silow-Carroll says that some pro-Israel voters want…
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News Barack Obama’s Jewish YouTube Campaign
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…
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Life Is Bloomberg’s Right-Hand Man Hinting His Boss Would Play a Good Second Fiddle?
Last week, my colleague Aram David posted about a Daily News opinion article that made the case for why Michael Bloomberg would make an ideal running mate for Barack Obama. The question, of course, is whether the billionaire mayor would want to be anyone’s second fiddle. Now, however, key Bloomberg aide (and longtime shadow presidential…
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Life Sly’s for Sderot
The stars came out to support for Sderot this week. The L.A. Jewish Journal’s Dikla Kadosh was at the “Live For Sderot” concert/fundraiser at the Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills. Also in attendance, she reported, were Sylvester Stallone, Mayim Bialik, Maria Conchita Alonzo, Valerie Harper and Hollywood’s No. 1 Judeophile, Jon Voight. (Ha’aretz has video…
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News McCain Absent From Jewish Debate
What was supposed to be a bipartisan debate among the three major presidential campaigns turned into a Democratic showdown, as the McCain campaign pulled out at the last minute from a scheduled debate of surrogates before a gathering of Jewish leaders. With the McCain camp absent, Jewish representatives of the Clinton and Obama campaigns vied…
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News Obama, Farrakhan, Russert and Us
I confess, as a Jew, I was left squirming in my seat as I watched Tim Russert grill Barack Obama last night about what one TV commentator later casually referred to as “the Jewish issue.” How did Jews wind up being a campaign “issue”? In part, it’s Russert’s fault. The “Meet the Press” host and…
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Life Obama on Iran, His Pastor, Brzezinski, What Being ‘Pro-Israel’ Means to Him and Other Issues That Give Some Jews the Willies
Barack Obama met with Jewish leaders in Cleveland and spoke at great length on a number of topics that have sparked Jewish anxieties about his candidacy. The JTA has the transcript.
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