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Welcome to the online archive for the Jews for Obama weekly e-Newsletter. The newsletter highlights the most compelling text and multimedia commentaries in support of Senator Barack Obama from a Jewish perspective.
It will serve to unite the various burgeoning online grassroots Jews for Obama groups, offering a new, more effective way for Jewish Obama supporters to reach out to the broader American Jewish community on the real issues at stake in this presidential contest.
Jews for Obama is a grassroots American Jewish initiative and not affiliated with the Obama Campaign.
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- Jews for Obama e-Newsletter Archive
- How the Bush-McCain Surge Harms Israel: Jews for Obama Inaugural Issue (4/16/2008)
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In this special first issue, we bring you a surprising interview with former Secretary of State Colin Powell in which the former general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains why he is confident that Obama will make a superb commander-in-chief. He further explains why McCain's positions on both Iraq and Iran are not realistic. If you read about this interview in the New York Times, you missed half the story. We show how to talk to Mideast hawks on the issues of Iran and Iraq.
We provide excerpts from an essay by a leading Mideast expert on how the Bush-McCain strategy in Iraq makes the Middle East, including Israel, less secure. On the home front, we place Obama's plan to provide healthcare insurance for all who need it within the moral context of the Passover Haggadah.
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- Hillary's Militant Mideast Policy is Reckless, Former Reagan Aide (4/22/2008)
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While Senator Hillary Clinton threatened Iran with "massive retaliation" by the US in response to an attack on any US ally in the Middle East, Senator Barack Obama sounded downright presidential with his more measured but strong response.
We provide text and audio of a revealing exchange between Obama and the Philadelphia Jewish leadership, along with passionate yet thoughtful endorsements from Jewish Pennsylvania legislators and Members of Congress, as well as Clinton's former Labor Secretary Robert Reich to Pennsylvania Jewish Democrats like David Broida.
Los Angeles Jewish leader Glenn Gottlieb delivers a striking critique of the demagoguery and character assassination that passes for politics in our country far too much of the time. Obama criticizes both George Bush and Bill Clinton for waiting to start serious Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy until the end of their terms.
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- Sign the Open Letter to Sen. McCain-Time for Straight Talk on Jewish Issues (5/5/2008)
- In this issue we launch an open letter to Senator McCain calling on him to keep his promise to conduct a civil, truthful campaign, free from lies and smears; to renounce the endorsement of extremists like Pastor Hagee, repudiate his hateful anti-Jewish remarks, and dismiss anti-Semites like Fred Malek from his campaign.
We break the news--exclusive to the JFO Newsletter--that former senior US Mideast Advisor Aaron Miller endorses Obama, calling him "better than Clinton or McCain for negotiating Israeli-Arab peace."
Dylan Loewe explains "Why Being Pro-McCain is Anti-Israel."
In a JFO editorial, we explain why the alarming and rising threats to food, environment, energy, and health security--not preacher sound bites--should be center stage for all people of faith this election season.
We rebut the latest smears against Obama's pro-Israel credentials, include a humoruos but trenchant web video adventure called "The Empire Strikes Barack," provide a web clip of Obama's charge that McCain and Clinton's proposed Gas Tax Holiday is a gimmick which will cause more harm than good, and will fail to address the real problems causing our spiralling gas prices.
We conclude with Obama's statement on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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