Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Passage of Prop. 8 reveals rift between denominations
By Rachel Heller
Jewish voices had joined both sides of the bitter and costly Proposition 8 debate leading up to Election Day. Reform and Conservative leaders largely . . .
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Dear Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin: I apologize for the Jewish vote for Obama
By Dean Rotbart
For now, we must leave the Lost Tribes of Obama on their own. If their ears could not hear and their eyes could not see all the pre-election warnings . . .
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Post-election healing — kumbaya in class and at the beach
By Julie G Fax
Now that the election is over and campaign exaggerations can give way to reality, in schools, and everywhere else, people are making efforts to put . . .
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
It can’t happen here
By Rob Eshman
"People choose to remain gay, and people choose to remain Jewish," said an organizer. "Why should the majority of us be forced to honor that . . .
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The kids are all right
By Marty Kaplan
As I drove across Los Angeles on election night, I saw clusters of teens and kids in their 20s celebrating on random street corners, high-fiving . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Ari Emanuel, is a Hollywood superagent
By Danielle Berrin
" . . . In a business deal, he's going to try to kill for you, and its just going to be about putting as much money in your pocket as he can, until . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Jews looked past worries to embrace Obama
By Ron Kampeas
For months, polls showed Obama languishing at about 60 percent of the Jewish vote, a critical chunk short of the 75 percent or so Sen. John Kerry . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s pick for Chief of Staff, is tough, direct and wedded to his Jewish roots
President-elect Barack Obama’s pick of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) will put a tough, proven political operator at the center of a new . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
MUSIC VIDEO: Hannah Friedman: ‘Oh, Obama’
Writer (and singer) Hannah Friedman stayed up all night to bring us this . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Obama’s victory resonates with L.A. Jews
By Brad A. Greenberg
For months there was constant talk about Obama's Jewish problem, a lingering fear -- with plenty of empirical evidence -- that an unusually high . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Democrats won for the wrong reasons
By Arnold Steinberg
As an American, I never thought I would say that I find a new French leader, the pro-opportunity, pro-defense Mr. Sarkozy, closer to the American . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Hope breeds strength
By Raphael J. Sonenshein
The French now understand that Obama's election will set off a long overdue debate about the status of minority communities within their own nation. . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
A New Jewish Agenda
By Rob Eshman
the enormity of Obama's Jewish support disguises the depth and intensity of division within our community over this election. Vicious ads and viral . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Yes, I can
By David Suissa
I have a wish that our eloquent new president will have the audacity to tell the nation that, for most of us, 99 percent of our happiness is in our . . .
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Congressional Results: Two new Jews, but no rabbi
By Eric Fingerhut
The 111th U.S. Congress is slated to have 13 Jewish senators and 31 members of the House of Representatives, with with the two first-time victories . . .
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Voters speak—- how they voted and why
From Staff Reports
" . . . I'm glad it's over, and I hope the outlook is bright and that we have more fun than we have the past four years. Somebody said to me, 'If . . .
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Let bygones (not) be bygones
By Marty Kaplan
So John McCain -- while claiming that not he's not impugning Barack Obama's patriotism -- impugns Barack Obama's patriotism, but we're supposed to . . .
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Obama—who won 78% of Jewish vote—faces global disarray, Mideast challenges
By Ron Kampeas
Barack Obama's Jewish backers argue that he will boost effortss to pressure Iran and advance Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Detractors, on the . . .
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Race ends with GOP slamming Obama on Israel
By Eric Fingerhut
The latest attacks come on the heels of new polls showing that Obama significantly expanded his lead among Jewish voters since August and is now . . .
Monday, November 3, 2008
LAST LOOK: Where do McCain and Obama stand on the issues?
High roads, low roads, potatoes, potahtoes, change,real change,mavericks, you . . .
Monday, November 3, 2008
MUSIC VIDEO: Oy, McCainia! (to the tune of ‘Rumania Rumania’)
The classic Yiddish folk tune 'Rumania, Rumania' provides the inspiration for this pro-Obama music . . .
Monday, November 3, 2008
Two out of state rabbis offer two opinions on anti-gay-marriage Prop. 8
A Reform rabbi (No on 8) and an Orthodox rabbi (Yes on 8) offer their opinions on the controversial ballot . . .
Thursday, October 30, 2008
California Jewish Voters Guide: Views on state and local issues split on party lines
By Tom Tugend
The presidential race makes the headlines, but there's lots of emotion, energy and money left for the 12 statewide propositions on the California . . .
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Siege of Sacramento’s Castle Incumbent
By Steve Greenberg
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