• “Jewish Mother for Obama” Video
• Two Other Great Jewish Pro-Obama Videos
• See the Campaigns Discuss Israel in Person, Courtesy of The Israel Project
• Joe Biden on Israel at the NJDC Conference and V.P. Debate
• Rabbis for Obama
• Groundbreaking Jewish Feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin on Obama
• New “Zionists for Barack” Blog
• Words of Torah for Yom Kippur

Shana Tova from Jews for Obama!

I'm a Jewish Mother... so I worry! There was a time when I had a lot to worry about. You see, we lived in Jerusalem for four years during the peak of the Second Intifada.
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I don't want any Israeli to have to live like that anymore.
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So because I love America, and because I pray for Israel's security and peace every day, I'm going to vote for Barack Obama in November. I hope you will too!

Read more about the video, or just watch it, then forward it to all your friends, especially those who still have doubts about Obama!

“Jewish Mother for Obama” is the newest in a growing field of videos from Jewish and Israeli supporters of Senator Barack Obama. Two other excellent videos have been released in the past two weeks.

• The Jewish Alliance for Change helped to produce this fabulous Israelis for Obama video, which features a wide range of leading Israeli voices — from Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, to former Knesset member Naomi Chazan — who express support for the Democratic nominee.
• The Obama for America campaign released a Jewish Americans for Obama video featuring many prominent Jewish Americans, including Rabbi Sam Gordon, Illinois Senator Jeff Schoenberg, former congressman and federal judge Abner Mikva, and philanthropist Lester Crown.

These videos are profound testaments to the support Obama enjoys within the Jewish community, and to why he deserves that support. Watch them and pass them on!

Forums are currently scheduled to occur in New York City; Boston; Chevy Chase, Maryland; Boca Raton; Miami; and Cleveland.

The Israel Project is an entirely non-partisan organization whose board of advisers includes prominent federal legislators from both sides of the aisle. This is an excellent opportunity for people who love Israel and care about Jewish issues to hear these issues addressed in a credible forum.

For more information or to RSVP (space is limited), visit http://theisraelproject.com/forums. Make sure to pass this along to your undecided friends and relatives!

Biden at the Debate

My support for Israel begins in my stomach, goes to my heart and ends up in my head. And I promise you, I guarantee you. I would not have joined Barack Obama's ticket as vice president were I in any doubt, even the slightest doubt, that he shares the same commitment to Israel that I share. I guarantee it. It's that simple. That is a fact.

Biden also spoke strongly about support for Israel during the recent vice-presidential debate (watch it here):

This administration's policy has been an abject failure... [Bush] insisted on elections on the West Bank, when I said, and others said, and Barack Obama said, “Big mistake! Hamas will win, you'll legitimize them”... We will change this policy, with thoughtful, real, live diplomacy that understands that you must back Israel in letting them negotiate, support their negotiation, and stand with them, not insist on policies like this admimistration has.

Read more about Israel in the vice-presidential debate in The Jerusalem Post.

“When 500 rabbis agree on anything, you know something is going on.” That's how Rabbi Steve Bob, co-chair of Rabbis for Obama, describes the significance of the group, which co-chair Rabbi Sam Gordon calls “unprecedented” in the history of American Jewry.

Also unprecedented was the recent conference call in which Barack Obama spoke directly with 900 American rabbis. Read more about it here.

Here are a couple questions to put to your friends and family who have doubts about Obama:

1. Where are the 500 rabbis supporting John McCain?
2. Whom does it make more sense to believe:
   • 500 rabbis from all denominations, most of whom have never been involved in politics before, who attest to Obama's “longstanding, stalwart support for Israel”; or
   • a small number of extreme right-wing pundits and politicians with a history of using lies and smears to discredit their opponents?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

So begins the statement in support of Senator Barack Obama by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, whose accomplishments include the founding of Ms. magazine; the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus; and the authorship and publication of many articles and books, including Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America.

Read the rest of the statement...

Click here to read testimonials from other Jewish Obama supporters, and make sure to pass it on to your friends and family! Click here to submit your own testimonial!

Upon examining the Yom Kippur services, one finds that the services begin with a verse from Tehillim: “Light is sown for the righteous, and for the upright of heart, gladness,” “Or Zarua LaTzadik Ul'Yishrei Lev Simcha.” One might think that an appropriate way to begin the services on the holiest day of the year, the day on which our fate for the coming year is sealed, would be with a message that is more forceful, more powerful. Perhaps the passage that we say elsewhere in the prayers “Repentance, prayer, and charity remove the evil decree!” might be more appropriate. Why was this line selected to begin the prayers?

Read more at torah.org...