Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
7:11 pm Early returns on MSNBC: Romney projected to win Indiana (11 electoral votes) and Kentucky (8 electors). Obama projected in Vermont (3 electors). Mourdock (R) is leading Donnelly (D) 48%-46% in the Indiana Senate race, but it’s considered too close to call. In Vermont, Bernie Sanders is projected to win.
At about 10 a.m. on Election Day, a black sedan pulled up to the polling station at the J.C. Mitchell Elementary School. “He threw Israel under the bus,” said the car’s driver, a chatty silver-haired man, as he helped an elderly woman from the back seat. “You vote your way and I’ll vote mine,” she…
Tonight, as we bite our nails waiting for the election results to come in, it feels to me like there’s more at stake than just the vital policy issues I blogged about this morning. Also hanging in the balance are the type of campaigns we encourage candidates to run as well as how much the…
Americans started to vote in a presidential election on Tuesday with polls showing President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney neck-and-neck in a race that will be decided in a handful of states. Polling stations opened across the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest as dawn broke. At least 120 million Americans…
If you, like me, spent any time this weekend in the areas of New York City that were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, or if you even spent time just reading about these folks’ plight, it may be a difficult and frustrating task to turn your thoughts back to the endless media noise around the election….
It’s Election Day at last. And as we sit down in front of the TV to watch the results (for those who actually have power), here are five Jewish points of reference on this long night of swing states, bellwether counties and exit poll results. Ohio. With polls closing at 7:30 p.m., the entire nation…
Elie Wiesel and President Obama are writing a book together, the Holocaust survivor and author told an Israeli newspaper. The book, which the two men will resume writing after Tuesday’s presidential election, is “a book of two friends,” Wiesel, a Nobel laureate, told Haaretz. Haaretz reported that Wiesel and Obama became friends in 2009 when…
A slowdown in Iran’s accumulation of its most sensitive nuclear material may have helped put off the threat of a new Middle East war for now, but Tehran’s expanding uranium-enrichment capacity suggests any relief could be short-lived. By dedicating a big part of its higher-enriched uranium to make civilian reactor fuel, Iran is removing it…
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