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‘Israelis on Obama’ video: President ‘a mensch’ on Israel [UPDATE]

Jonah Lowenfeld October 18, 2012

“President Obama is doing, in regards to our security, more than anything I can remember, ” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says at the start of a new video created by The Jewish Council for Education & Research (JCER), a pro-Obama Super PAC. Barak’s comment is taken from a July 2012 CNN interview, and is just one of many interviews with Israelis in JCER’s new two-minute Web video aimed at garnering the pro-Israel vote (\”Israelis on Obama\”).

A debate party turned sober

Ryan Torok October 10, 2012

“It’s nerve-wracking for me to watch this debate,” said Julie Moss, 26, while watching the first of three U.S. presidential debates, on Oct. 3, on a flat-screen TV above a cocktail bar at Lola’s Restaurant.

Rosner’s ‘Voter’s Guide’ offers an insider’s view

Jonathan Kirsch October 8, 2012

Every four years, the same question is asked in America: Which candidate will win the Jewish vote? With the 2012 presidential election teetering on a razor’s edge, however, the question takes on new importance and even a certain poignancy. That’s exactly why it caught the attention of political reporter and analyst Shmuel Rosner in “The Jewish Vote: Obama vs. Romney: A Voter’s Guide” (Jewish Journal Books: $9.99 paperback, $8 Kindle edition). After all, as Rosner sees it, as many as 5 million Jewish voters may go to the polls next month, and that could be enough to make a difference in an election as close as this one.

First presidential debate spotlights economy, health care

Jewish Journal October 4, 2012

President Obama and Mitt Romney focused on revenue and spending, with an emphasis on health care, in their first presidential debate.

In battleground state Ohio, Jewish voters favoring Obama handily, AJC poll shows

Jewish Journal October 3, 2012

An American Jewish Committee survey of Jewish voters in Ohio, a battleground state, has the community favoring President Obama in similar numbers to polls elsewhere.

3 Views on the GOP Hammering Obama on Israel

Shmuel Rosner September 5, 2012

President Obama came under attack yesterday for his many sins –as interpreted by ‎GOP candidates – among them the mistreatment of Israel. Senator John McCain, the ‎GOP 2008 candidate, said that the US \”can\’t afford to cause our friends and allies, ‎from Latin America to Europe to Asia to the Middle East and especially in Israel, a ‎nation under existential threat, to doubt America\’s leadership\”.