• Share Your Story for Our Final Issue
• Gallup Says We Did It, But the Fight Isn't Over
• Help the Jews for Obama Thermometer reach $18,000!
• Remembering Heschel and King

It has been an honor and a privilege to write to our readers, but for our final issue, we'd like to turn the tables and ask you to write to us instead! Send us your stories about how you came to support Obama or about what an Obama presidency means to you. Tell us about inspirational experiences you've had knocking on doors or making phone calls. Share with us your greatest “victory” convincing a friend or relative to vote for Obama. Kvell about when Obama kissed your baby!

We'll publish a selection of these stories in our final issue, and more of them on our Web site. And, as an added incentive, we'll send a Jews for Obama kippah, bumper sticker and pin to the authors of the stories we publish!

So, what are you waiting for? Send your story to editors@jews4obama.com today. We can't wait to hear from you!

Yesterday, in releasing its most recent poll on Jewish American support for Obama, Gallup announced, “Obama Winning Over the Jewish Vote”. As of October 22, Jewish Americans support Obama by a margin of more than 3 to 1, 74% to 22%!

This is the same level of support that John Kerry and John Edwards received in the 2004 presidential election. It's only slightly lower than the support received by the Gore-Lieberman ticket in 2000, and it's still climbing!

We did this.

We did it by fighting the smears, talking to our friends and relatives about Obama, making phone calls, knocking on doors, schlepping to Florida, and donating to the Obama campaign, the NJDC, the JCER, the Jewish Alliance for Change, and all the other Jewish organizations supporting Obama.

This is no coincidence. We made this happen.

But we can't stop now. We need to keep working right up until Election Day. We need to keep telling people why they should vote for Obama, because the other side will keep telling them why they shouldn't. We need to keep building up support, because the other side will keep tearing it down. We need to ensure that the margin of victory for Obama is so high that even the other side's vote-stealing antics won't keep him from winning. We need to give Obama the kind of landslide victory that will make it clear to America, and to the world, that he has a mandate for the kind of changes our country needs.

So let's not rest on our laurels. Let's keep fighting for victory right up until November 4. Let's make sure that on November 5, all of us can take pride in knowing that we did everything we could to put the right man in the White House in this historic election.

If you haven't gotten involved in the campaign before now, it's not too late. Email JewishOutreach@BarackObama.com today to find out what you can do to help!

Yes we can!

Will you help us reach our goal?

Obama needs your support now more than ever. The McCain campaign, the RNC, and the Republican Jewish Coalition have been stepping up their hateful “robocalls”, attack mailings, and smear ads. They're throwing the kitchen sink of false, negative attacks.

The margins of victory in crucial battleground states will be small, and your support for Obama today can make all the difference. We can't risk coming up short — the stakes are just too high.

Click here to donate. As an added incentive, we will send a Jews for Obama kippah, bumper sticker and pin to anyone who donates $50 or more (while supplies last). Donate now to receive yours!

Thank you for your support!

Heschel and King marching at Selma

Thus began Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in his address to an ecumenical conference on Religion and Race on January 14, 1963, where Heschel and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. first met.

As Heschel's daughter, Dr. Susannah Heschel, wrote:

Consider Heschel's words: “The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference,” a conviction that he translated into a political commitment: “In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.” King writes, “To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system.” Not to act communicates “to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.” Social activism was required by religious faith, both Heschel and King argued, particularly when society had developed immoral institutional structures: “Your highest loyalty is to God and not to the mores, or folkways, the state or the nation, or any [hu]man-made institution.”

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Shabbat Shalom from Jews for Obama!

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