Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has a laugh at his own expense during his meeting today withIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rubio caught flak last week for his dry as a bone response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech. Via Twitter.
I wrote yesterday about Jewish organizations lining up behind new legislation that would extend federal post-Sandy assistance to houses of worship. The law shook up some traditional alliances, particularly in the Jewish organizational community. Of the groups with a pronounced record on church-state separation, the American Jewish Committee backed such aid; the Reform movement was […]
Sami Rahamim, one of four Jews out of 20 victims of gun violence present at the State of the Union address, just posted his story at BarackObama.com. He finishes with the “deserve a vote” pitch that was the most noticed part of Obama’s speech. Below the jump is Rahamim’s email, distribiuted by the president’s campaign: […]
