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 How Big Was Obama’s Jewish Win?
It is a time-honored post-Election Day Jewish tradition. As in years past, Republicans and Democrats dove into the numbers Wednesday in hopes finding data confirming that they won the elections — or at least put up a good fight. For Republicans, any number indicating a Jewish shift toward their party is magnified; Democrats, on the…
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Opinion Sarah and Sheldon and Mindy, Oh My!
Now that the serious stuff is out of the way, let’s list the best (or worst) Jewish viral videos of the 2012 election cycle. Silverman on Adelson Comedian Sarah Silverman offered sexual favors to billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson in this video from the group behind 2008’s Great Schlep. Silverman’s deal: Donate to Democrats instead…
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Life Election 2012’s ‘Revenge of the Ladyparts’
Around the 1992 election, like the political junkie-in-training I was, I walked around my grade-school wearing campaign buttons featuring the dynamic duo of Jewish female California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, plus new First Lady Hillary Clinton. It was the Year of the Woman, a historic moment for women in politics — and a…
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News Obama Rides Jewish Mandate to Second Term
President Barack Obama rode a renewed mandate from Jewish voters to win an historic second term in the White House. With a list of swing states painted blue as the vote count proceeded, Obama’s Democratic victory was clinched with narrow predicted victories in the battleground states of Florida and Ohio, both with significant Jewish populations….
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Life A Sisterhood Writer’s Election Diary
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 7.30 am: Nauseous. Proceed to voting area. Think about the subversive nature of my vote, and how we can’t let Obama take his base for granted. 9.30 am: Subway to office. Keep reminding myself that if the unthinkable happens, more people will be in the streets. The revolution is happening, and…
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Fast Forward Israelis Ponder Meaning of Four More Years
Most Israelis were asleep as the polls closed in America and voters waited for the results, but on one rooftop in central Tel Aviv a party with loud classic rock music and flashing lights was going strong. It was the pro-Obama election-watching party of Israel’s left-wing Meretz party. Deviating from a solidly anti-Obama consensus in…
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Fast Forward Arab World Yawns at Obama Win
A tweet from one of Saudi Arabia’s most influential clerics summed up the Middle East’s response to Barack Obama’s re-election: “Obama isn’t good,” tweeted Salman al-Oudah, “But he is the lesser evil.” After four years during which he largely kept Washington on the sidelines while the Arab Spring transformed the Middle East, Obama’s re-election was…
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Opinion Bad Night for the Jewish Echo Chamber
American liberals are deservingly jubilant. Our standard-bearer has been reelected, liberal heroes such as Tammy Baldwin and Elizabeth Warren have won their elections, and marriage equality triumphed in all four states where it was on the ballot. And while Congress remains divided much as it was in the previous term, important trend lines show the…
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