This morning, I spoke to a (white) friend who immigrated to the US from South Africa.  He tells me that he’s having trouble deciding which meant more to him, his vote for Barack Obama or the one he cast  in 1994 for Nelson Mandela.

The Pennsylvania Republican Party is now trying to distance itself from an official party email sent to 75,000 Jewish voters. The email says: Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008. Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s and made a tragic mistake. Let’s not make a similar...

Over the weekend, I posted an Israelis for Obama video. Here’s a longer one by a different group (but featuring some of the same people): Retired Generals of the Israeli Defense Forces and high-ranking Mossad officials praise Barack Obama… from www.JCER.info on Vimeo.   This one comes with a little controversy: several of the current officials...

I’ve written previously about why Barack Obama will be better for the American Jewish community and the US-Israel relationship than John McCain and Sarah Palin. But Israelis for Obama has said it with a lot more style and with sabras in bikinis: ...

Or maybe it’s a quest for mediocrity. Either way, we’re ahead. Some thoughts on Sarah Palin: Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League. No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been...

In another clip from her fingernails-on-a-chalkboard interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin yesterday promised never to second guess “Israel’s security efforts.”  Palin’s comments put her in direct conflict with just about everybody in Israel.  Anyone who’s spent any time there (and I have) knows that Israelis are rarely of a...