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Political Tidbits: Biden vs. Begin, Lieberman and Cantor buzz, new pro-Obama Jewish effort

Commentary editor John Podhoretz has two posts up (here and here) about Joe Biden’s testy 1982 exchange in the Senate with Menachem Begin and the young senator’s reported threat to cut off aid to Israel over settlements (of course, you don’t even have to go that far back to find Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with […]

Jewish pro-Obama site tries to turn negative into positive

Politico reports on jewsvote.org, a new political action committee that is trying to use the same kinds of social networks which originally spread false rumors about Barack Obama to disseminate a positive message about the candidate in the Jewish community. The Jewish Council for Educational Research was co-founded by Mik Moore, who took a leave […]

NJ Jews at Dem convention want unity

The little Jewish corner of the New Jersey delegation was hardly united in designation: two were delegates for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), two were for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and one was an unpledged “superdelegate.” They were united in opinion, however: The time had come to unify the party and back the presumptive nominee. I […]

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Political Tidbits: Biden vs. Begin, Lieberman and Cantor buzz, new pro-Obama Jewish effort

Jewish pro-Obama site tries to turn negative into positive

NJ Jews at Dem convention want unity

Ed Rendell and Rahm Emanuel speak

Can Barack bolster black-Jewish ties?

Wexler: No senior problems in Fla. for Obama

Political Tidbits: Obama has Joe, shouldn’t McCain get one too?

JTA VIDEO: Condo vote hard to crack

Obama takes on Agri

Obama: Can’t let Israel feel like it’s back is up against a wall on Iran

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