Cheers turn to jeers at GOP event

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on November 7, 2012

Amid life-sized cutouts of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Republicans gathered in a backroom at the Daily Grill in Santa Monica on Tuesday night to watch Fox News election returns on two large screens. The mood was festive as the evening kicked off with drinks and appetizers and the waiters set down oversized plates of pasta and chicken on tables decorated with red, white and blue tinsel centerpieces.

Young Persian Jews cool, not cold, on Obama

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 7, 2012

When the networks projected President Barack Obama’s re-election victory Tuesday night, most of the young, partying crowd at The Parlor bar in West Hollywood erupted in raucous cheers. Except for one section.

Union workers celebrate at Dodger Stadium

By Ryan Torok
Published on November 7, 2012

LAX workers were the first to begin the cheers. “Obama! Obama! Obama!” It didn’t take long for others to follow when the news broke out at Dodger Stadium on election night that Barack Obama had been re-elected president.

Election day in Los Angeles

By Jay Firestone
Published on November 6, 2012

Election day snapshots

Published on November 6, 2012

Nettie Price voted for Obama in 2008, and in the past the registered independent has voted mostly a straight Democratic ticket. But not this year. Standing outside her polling place at Castle Heights Elementary School in Beverlywood, Price said this time she voted a straight Republican ticket, based on one issue: economics.

Pics and quotes from Sinai Temple

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on November 6, 2012

A response to a stiff-necked playwright

Published on November 5, 2012

David Mamet recently asked the following questions of “Jews planning to vote for Obama.” Herewith, my responses.

So, who are you voting for?

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on November 1, 2012

For Miriam, an outspoken woman in her 80s who wouldn’t give her last name, there isn’t the slightest possibility she will vote against President Barack Obama on Election Day.

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

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on 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").

3 Views on the GOP Hammering Obama on Israel

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on 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".

Israel Factor: Where’s the Romney lead?‎

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on June 17, 2012

With Berman, Sherman, and other Dems facing off, Republicans may hold the key

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on June 13, 2012

Jesus makes another bid for president?

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on May 16, 2012

Obama returning money from alleged Ponzi schemer

Published on April 26, 2012

The Obama campaign is returning the donation of a hedge fund manager who is accused of defrauding members of his Persian-Jewish community in Los Angeles.

‘Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on March 26, 2012

Santorum, the presidency and the campaign politics of religion

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 28, 2012

Not of One Cloth

By Rav Yosef Kanefsky
Published on February 22, 2012

A rundown of Tuesday night’s Berman v. Sherman v. Reed debate [VIDEO]

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on February 22, 2012

Taking the pro-Israel pulse of GOP candidates

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on December 22, 2011

The race for the “Who Loves Israel Most” title has been one of the most interesting developments in the Republican presidential election. It’s skewed the contest in a way that turns every vote for a candidate into a vote for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party.

Romney: My first visit as president would be to Israel

Published on November 23, 2011

Mitt Romney said his first foreign trip as president would be to Israel.

No Israel question during GOP presidential debate

Published on June 14, 2011

Israel was nowhere to be found as a topic during the first Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire.