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Birth control fights return to campaigns, with Jews in key posts

By Ron Kampeas · February 6, 2012

Birth control is rapidly gaining steam as an election-year wedge issue, with Jewish advocates lobbying out front and behind the scenes in what's shaping up as dueling calls for individual freedom and religious liberty. Read more »

Ahead of March meetings, Israel and the U.S. close ranks on Iran

By Ron Kampeas · February 7, 2012

The Obama and Netanyahu governments appear to be coordinating more closely on Iran policy. Read more »

Obama assassination column raises question: Why do some Jews see Obama as so sinister?

By Uriel Heilman · January 24, 2012

While few Jewish critics of Barack Obama might go as far as the publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times did in a recent column that included a passage about assassinating the president, it doesn’t take much looking to find Jewish detractors of Obama who believe he has sinister motives when it comes to the Jews and Israel. Read more »

Republicans—and Democrats—pitch to Florida’s Jews

By Ron Kampeas · January 23, 2012

Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are going into Florida swinging, but Barack Obama's campaign is a factor on the ground in the run-up to next week's primary. Read more »

Photos and Videos

Jack Lew, center, helps light the "national menorah" organized by American Friends of Lubavitch, with the group's director, Rabbi Levi Shemtov, left, and his father, Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, the director of Agudas Chasidei Chabad, Dec. 20, 2011. (Baruch Ezagui, courtesy of American Friends of Lubavitch.) President Obama introducing Jack Lew as his choice for the new White House chief of staff, Jan. 9, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Rick Santorum, shown speaking to Iowa high-school students in West Des Moines on Jan. 3, 2012, is reaching out to pro-Israel donors to boost his campaign following his strong showing in the state's caucuses. (Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons) Rick Santorum speaks in Iowa on Jan. 2, the day before the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses, in which he finished in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney. (IowaPolitics.com) Christopher Hitchens, the noted journalist and polemicist, speaks in 2007. (ensceptico on Flickr/Creative Commons) The rise in the Republican presidential polls by Newt Gingrich, shown speaking at a GOP leadership conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 19, 2011, has refocused attention on his foreign policy statements. (Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons) Brad Schneider, a candidate for Congress in Illinois' 10th District, greeting voters at the North Chicago Community Days Parade, Aug. 6, 2011. (Courtesy Schneider for Congress) Ilya Sheyman, right, a candidate for Congress in Illinois' 10th District, campaigning at an annual parade in Zion, Ill., Sept. 5, 2011. (Courtesy Sheyman for Congress) Leo Bretholz, a Holocaust survivor, testifying at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on allowing lawsuits to go ahead against SNCF, the French national railroad, for its role in deporting Jews to death camps, Nov. 16, 2011. Bretholz fled from such a transport. (Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans) Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone testifying at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in Washington on allowing lawsuits to proceed against Holocaust-era insurance companies, Nov. 16, 2011. (Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans)

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  • Jack Lew, center, helps light the "national menorah" organized by American Friends of Lubavitch, with the group's director, Rabbi Levi Shemtov, left, and his father, Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, the director of Agudas Chasidei Chabad, Dec. 20, 2011.
  • President Obama introducing Jack Lew as his choice for the new White House chief of staff, Jan. 9, 2012.
  • Rick Santorum, shown speaking to Iowa high-school students in West Des Moines on Jan. 3, 2012, is reaching out to pro-Israel donors to boost his campaign following his strong showing in the state's caucuses.
  • Rick Santorum speaks in Iowa on Jan. 2, the day before the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses, in which he finished in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney.
  • Christopher Hitchens, the noted journalist and polemicist, speaks in 2007.
  • The rise in the Republican presidential polls by Newt Gingrich, shown speaking at a GOP leadership conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 19, 2011, has refocused attention on his foreign policy statements.
  • Brad Schneider, a candidate for Congress in Illinois' 10th District, greeting voters at the North Chicago Community Days Parade, Aug. 6, 2011.
  • Ilya Sheyman, right, a candidate for Congress in Illinois' 10th District, campaigning at an annual parade in Zion, Ill., Sept. 5, 2011.
  • Leo Bretholz, a Holocaust survivor, testifying at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on allowing lawsuits to go ahead against SNCF, the French national railroad, for its role in deporting Jews to death camps, Nov. 16, 2011. Bretholz fled from such a transport.
  • Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone testifying at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in Washington on allowing lawsuits to proceed against Holocaust-era insurance companies, Nov. 16, 2011.
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