2012 Presidential Elections

2012 Presidential Elections

GOP in ‘frank conversations’

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON —— The Republican Party as a whole is having the morning-afters, reconsidering how it might have done better in an election that saw the party fail to win the White House and suffer modest losses in Congress, and Jewish...
2012 Presidential Elections

Americans in Israel vote heavily for Romney

Ben Sales, JTA -
TEL AVIV — Most Israelis were asleep as the polls closed in America and voters waited for the results, but on one rooftop in central Tel Aviv a party with loud classic rock music and flashing lights was going...
2012 Presidential Elections

How the Jewish vote went: About 70/30

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s Jewish numbers are down, but by how much and why? Expect four more years of tussling between Jewish Republicans and Democrats about the meaning of Obama’s dip from 78% Jewish support cited in 2008 exit polls...
2012 Presidential Elections

Obama’s second term: More of the same, at least until Iran flares

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON — The day after the election looks a lot like the day before for President Obama, particularly in areas that have attracted the attention of Jewish voters: Tussling with Republicans domestically on the economy and health care,...
2012 Presidential Elections

Election 2012: Obama and the Jews

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON — — The moment in the final presidential debate when President Obama described his visit to Israel’'s national Holocaust museum and to the rocket-battered town of Sderot seemed to be aimed right for the kishkes. The “kishkes question” ——...
2012 Presidential Elections

Election 2012: Romney and the Jews

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s record as a moderate Republican governor would seem to have made him ideally suited to peel off Jewish votes from President Obama. The problem is that he spent much of the past half decade running...
2012 Presidential Elections

Israel in presidential debate 29 times

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
  WASHINGTON — Israel, a heated issue throughout the campaign, finally took center stage at the final presidential debate. It was mentioned a total of 29 times by President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney at the Monday, Oct. 22,...
2012 Presidential Elections

Romney’s peace pessimism

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s pessimistic take on Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects drew some media attention but not much noise from centrist Jewish groups. Only groups on the right and the left ends of the communal spectrum issued statements in response...
2012 Presidential Elections

Convention focuses on Jewish swing votes

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
CHARLOTTE — Jewish swing voters could make or break President Obama’s bid for reelection. At least that’s the case that Democratic Party leaders made in a training session that packed one of the larger halls at the convention center...
2012 Presidential Elections

Romney’s moment; convention covers Jewish bases

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
TAMPA — On Sunday night, Aug. 26, at the opening bash of the Republican National Convention at Tropicana Field, the home of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg, the winds roiled the waters that lap...
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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.