2008 Presidential Elections

2008 Presidential Elections

Obama wins: ‘Change has come’

Shana Goldberg -
After a long and sometimes bitter struggle, Obama has emerged the clear victor in his campaign against John McCain for president of the United States. For his supporters, over 70,000 of whom packed Chicago's Grant Park to celebrate,...
2008 Presidential Elections

UPDATED: Jewish vote: Obama 78%-22%

Eric Fingerhut, JTA -
WASHINGTON – For some Jewish voters, the strangeness of Barack Obama was like a recurring dream: unsettling and then settling in, and then, suddenly, revelatory. Ari Wallach described breaking through to elderly Jews in Florida who had resisted voting...
2008 Presidential Elections

Where do the candidates stand on the issues? A complete guide

JTA -
From the Middle East to domestic affairs, a look at where Senator Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stand on issues of Jewish concern. DOMESTIC POLICY ABORTION Abortion is an area of sharp disagreement between the two candidates. Obama said during...
2008 Presidential Elections

Naming the advisers: Who has the ear of McCain?

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON — When the question of recognizing Israel landed on President Harry Truman’s desk in May, 1948, he had to balance the advice of his old friend, Clark Clifford, against the general he deeply admired, George Marshall. In the...
2008 Presidential Elections

Campaign summary: Obama

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — A major Republican tack against Barack Obama has a simple theme: By his friends you shall know him. For the McCain campaign, in recent weeks, this has meant repeatedly linking the Democratic presidential nominee to William...
2008 Presidential Elections

Campaign summary: McCain

JTA -
By Ami Eden, JTA NEW YORK —— When John McCain stopped in New York one Tuesday in October to make his pre-primaries pitch to a room full of Jewish bigwigs, he spent virtually all his time discussing foreign policy —...
2008 Presidential Elections

Naming the advisers: Who has the ear of Obama?

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON — When the question of recognizing Israel landed on President Harry Truman’s desk in May, 1948, he had to balance the advice of his old friend, Clark Clifford, against the general he deeply admired, George Marshall. In the...
2008 Presidential Elections

Did Jesse Jackson say that Obama rejects Zionists?

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON — Two prominent political bugbears whose very mention drives the “other side” into foaming denunciations — Rev. Jesse Jackson and Amir Taheri — collided last week. Jackson was quoted by Taheri as saying that “Zionists” would lose their...
2008 Presidential Elections

A ‘schlep’ to Obama

Ben Harris, JTA -
BOCA RATON — Fred Wolff is pretty explicit in laying out the reason why he won’t support Barack Obama on Nov. 4. A survivor of the Dachau concentration camp who came to the US as a teenager, Wolff told...
2008 Presidential Elections

Biden, Palin vow to pursue Middle East Peace

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON — Israeli-Palestinian peace talks would be a priority of a McCain administration, Sarah Palin said. “A two-state solution is the solution,” Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said in the Oct. 2 debate with her Democratic counterpart, US Sen....
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Professionally Speaking: Eliav Bock, Ramah of the Rockies

It is lunchtime at Ramah in the Rockies, which is considered a sacred time for its camp director. Only a phone call from the supplier of a commercial vacuum cleaner can tear Rabbi Eliav Bock away from his campers. “We just got it, and it’s not the right thing,” says Bock.