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Palin on Israel visit to meet with Netanyahu

Jewish Journal March 21, 2011

Potential 2012 presidential contender Sarah Palin is scheduled to have dinner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on her second and last day in Israel. Palin will dine with Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, on Monday before returning to the United States. \”As the world confronts sweeping changes and new realities, I look forward to meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss the key issues facing his country, our ally Israel,\” Palin said in a statement on her official SarahPAC website.

Jewish candidate favored for PM, Dutch poll shows

Jewish Journal March 17, 2010

Opinion polls in Holland show that a majority of voters favor the Jewish former mayor of Amsterdam for prime minister.\n\nSome 52 percent of those polled last week would vote for Marius Job Cohen as prime minister in national elections scheduled for June, the European Jewish Press reported.\n

State Assembly hopeful is a political and personal bridge builder

Tom Tugend July 23, 2008

If elected, one of his top priorities will be California\’s \”quality of life,\” especially in upgrading the state\’s infrastructure. \”Every one dollar invested in infrastructure adds seven times that amount to the general economy,\” he said

Diversity lost

Gina Nahai May 2, 2008

Are we electing a candidate based on his or her ability to lead the country, or are we crowning a king who looks good in pictures and who is above criticism, examination and challenge?

Obama? Been there

Gina Nahai April 4, 2008

I don\’t think Obama is a bigot or malicious. I think he\’s someone who\’s risen too high too fast, on the merit of some exceptional oratorical skills and some natural charm and charisma, at a time when this nation is hard-pressed to find a person in whom it can put its faith. I think he hasn\’t even had a chance to examine his own loyalties and politics enough to know where he has stood up to now and how he can reconcile his \”base\” — the Louis Farrakhans and the Rev. Wrights of the world — with his new, much wider constituency.

Letter to Obama

David Suissa April 4, 2008

If anybody will ever earn the respect of the warring parties of the Middle East and of the rest of the world, it will be a black American president with a Muslim name, a sense of universal fairness, and the courage to speak the truth as he sees it. As someone who is deeply pained by how the world continues to malign the state of Israel, I have the audacity to hope that such a change will be good for the Jews.\n\n

20 questions with John McCain

Rob Eshman April 3, 2008

Interview with presidential candidate Senator John McCain and a transcript of remarks by the Senator to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.\n

Undressed up

Rob Eshman March 1, 2007

I sought out Vilsack because, of all the candidates so far, he had a detailed plan for achieving energy security — he had made it the cornerstone of his campaign.

Choice of Seminary Leader a Bold Move

Dr. Michael Berenbaum April 13, 2006

Arnold Eisen is a distinguished scholar of modern Jewish thought and an insightful student of the American Jewish community. His work, \”The Jew Within,\” written jointly with Steven Cohen, explores the identity of marginally affiliated contemporary Jews and illustrates the crisis that institutional liberal Judaism has in maintaining the allegiance of a new generation of American Jews.

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