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25 May 2012 | 4 Sivan 5772

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Ron Kampeas

 

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Rahm Emanuel: Attack dog, policy wonk, committed Jew

WorldPublished: 14 November 2008

WASHINGTON – Political insight, killer in a fight, Yiddishkeit — it’s an inseparable package when it comes to Rahm Emanuel, say those who know president-elect Barack Obama’s pick to be the next White House chief of staff.

 

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Jews looked past worries to embrace Obama

Cover StoryPublished: 07 November 2008

For some Jewish voters, the strangeness of Barack Obama was like a recurring dream: unsettling and then settling in, and then, suddenly, revelatory.

Ari Wallach described breaking through to elderly Jews in Florida who had resisted voting for the son of the man from Kenya, the tall black man with the middle name “Hussein.”

 

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Obama faces global disarray, Mideast challenges

Cover StoryPublished: 07 November 2008

Barack Obama emerges from a maelstrom into a vacuum.

The U.S. senator from Illinois has survived the longest and roughest election season in memory to assume control of a free world in free fall: A collapsing economy, a resurgent Iran, an obstreperous Russia.

“He’s going to have his hands full with a recession, a housing crisis, Wall Street, domestic legislation, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran,” said David Makovsky, a senior analyst with the Washington Center for Near East Policy.

 

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The advisers: Who has the ear of the presidential candidates?

WorldPublished: 31 October 2008

WASHINGTON – When the question of recognizing Israel landed on President Harry Truman’s desk in May 1948, he had to balance the advice of his old friend, Clark Clifford, against the general he deeply admired, George Marshall.

In the end Truman went with his friend, recognizing the new Jewish state.

It may be easy to read too much into who a candidate’s advisers are during an election campaign, but it’s also risky to avoid the tea leaves.

Obama’s advisers

 

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Obama labors to gain Jewish trust of his friends and his policies

WorldPublished: 31 October 2008

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A major Republican tack against Barack Obama has a simple theme: By his friends you shall know him.

For the McCain campaign, in recent weeks this has meant repeatedly linking the Democratic presidential nominee to William Ayers, the former member of the Weather Underground. But Jewish Republicans had been employing the strategy for many months in the run-up to the Nov. 4 vote, with the goal of portraying Obama as soft and unreliable in his support for Israel.

 

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Jackson denies report

WorldPublished: 24 October 2008

WASHINGTON – Was it an October surprise that surprised the surpriser?

Two prominent political bugbears whose very mention drives the “other side” into foaming denunciations — the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose 1984 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination stumbled on an anti-Semitic epithet, and Amir Taheri, a conservative whose writings about the Middle East have a habit of coming undone — collided this week, and sparks were flying.

 

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How Rosh HaShanah played a role in the bailout vote

Palin joins Dems in vowing to make peace process a priority

2008 Elections

WASHINGTON – Israeli-Palestinian peace talks would be a priority of a McCain administration, Sarah Palin said.

“A two-state solution is the solution,” Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said in the Oct. 2 debate with her Democratic counterpart, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.). “And Secretary Rice, having recently met with leaders on one side or the other there also, still in these waning days of the Bush administration is trying to forge that peace. And that needs to be done, and that will be a top-of-an-agenda item also under a McCain-Palin administration.”

For second time in a month, GOP thwarts Iran sanctions

WASHINGTON – Republicans in the U.S. Senate have sunk anti-Iran sanctions for the second time in less than a month, drawing allegations that they are putting politics ahead of the need to confront Tehran’s nuclear program.

Senate Democrats made one final bid last week to pass legislation that would tighten sanctions aimed at getting Iran to stand down from its suspected nuclear weapons program. Among other things, the stalled measure would facilitate efforts to divest from the Islamic Republic.

Politicizing Iran: Obama sanctions bill, Palin’s rally gig fall prey

Democrats countered that it was the Republicans that seeded the partisanship by offering a candidate and not another lawmaker. Presidents Conference officials said they had tried to get Republican lawmakers to come to the rally but had been rebuffed.

Ann Lewis, a close adviser to Clinton who was a key figure in her Jewish outreach operation during the Democratic primaries, told JTA that “the way to keep it nonpartisan, in our mind, is you invite both candidates.”