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Fighting over every percentile: Arguing about the Jewish vote and exit polls

Jewish Journal November 7, 2012

President Obama’s Jewish numbers are down, but by how much and why?

Five challenges facing the American pro-Israel community in the next four years

Jewish Journal November 1, 2012

The American pro-Israel community has a lot of work to do. While many pro-Israel organizations in the United States, including AIPAC, Christians United for Israel, Stand with US and Hasbara have been extremely effective in defending the Jewish State, there is always more we can do. Here is a list of the five greatest challenges facing the American pro-Israel community in the next four years.

For Obama campaign, trying to put to rest persistent questions about ‘kishkes’

Jewish Journal October 26, 2012

The moment in the final presidential debate when President Obama described his visit to Israel’s national Holocaust museum and to the rocket-battered town of Sderot seemed to be aimed right for the kishkes.

Down to the wire, Romney resurrects moderate posture that attracted Jewish support

Jewish Journal October 26, 2012

Mitt Romney’s record as a moderate Republican governor would seem to have made him ideally suited to peel off Jewish votes from President Obama. The problem is that he spent much of the past half decade running from that past.

Netanyahu-Barak spat stokes early Israel vote talk

Jewish Journal October 3, 2012

Friction between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak over relations with the United States fuelled talk on Wednesday of an early Israeli election.

Netanyahu: ‘It’s not about elections in America, but centrifuges in Iran’

Jewish Journal September 19, 2012

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dedicates much of his time to thinking about how to handle the Iranian nuclear issue, considering it a rapidly approaching existential threat. Not surprisingly, it was also the main topic of a wide-ranging interview he gave with Israel Hayom before Rosh Hashanah. Here is what the Israeli leader had to say: