The Magnes Zionist

Just got an email from an Israeli American friend telling me that he voted, much to my surprise, for Obama. It seems that my friend, an old...

I just received this email from a friend who is an associate of Obama. It's a small, but very powerful story, and I plan to share it wi...

At the moment of this writing I believe that Obama will win by a landslide four weeks from today. Anybody following developments in the las...

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Progressive Jewish bloggers like Phil Weiss and Robert Dreyfuss in the Nation have found the silver-lining in Obama's predictable and...

For the last five minutes I have been on the verge of tears. I simply cannot get over the latest news alerts I am reading on the web. Before...

Over the past few months I have had some interesting discussions with a 94-year old Jewish supporter of Barack Obama. The supporter, a prom...

Jeffrey ("You-Can-Dump-On-Israel-As-Long-As-You-Are-A-Liberal-Zionist-Like-Me") Goldberg has an interview with Obama in Atlantic....

Several months ago, when I knew very little about Barack Obama I became friends with one of his major fundraisers, a Jewish lawyer living ...

The New York Times ran an article yesterday about Barack Obama and the Jews. I have started reading the "disclaimers" of the Ob...

Because of all the brouhaha over Barack Obama's Middle East advisors, Haaretz correspondant Shmuel Rosner went to interview Samantha Po...

I have no illusion that Barack Obama will be any better (i.e., worse) for Israel than Hillary or any of the Republican contenders for the n...