Some day I would like to be the first ballot counted by the machine on Election Day, but alas, with five kids in the house, I doubt that day will come for a while :-). I was up before 5am — couldn’t sleep. Got the kids up at 6:15. Got breakfast and lunches made and… Read More »
This moving pro-Obama video testimonial is by Janette Hillis-Jaffe, an Orthodox Jew living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hillis-Jaffe was so offended by the anti-Obama smears being circulated in the Jewish community, that she felt compelled to respond by making this video. Some excerpts: I’m a Jewish Mother… so I worry! There was a time when I… Read More »
Several weeks ago, I contacted Joan Pasquale, the executive director of the Parents and Community Build Group (PCBG), to inquire about the possibility of volunteers for the Obama campaign running a voter registration table at the fair.
In his weekly opinion column on August 22, M.J. Rosenberg argues that Israel would endanger Jews living outside of Israel by attacking Iran. Furthermore, he rattles off a frightening laundry list of negative outcomes which he claims would result from such an attack: “An Israeli attack on Iran—absent an imminent threat of attack from Iran—is… Read More »
The National Jewish Democratic Council just released an awesome fact sheet on some of McCain’s biggest flip-flops. Read or link to it here: http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2008/07/senator-mccain.html Digg it here: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_flip_flop_fact_sheet This is powerful stuff!
The Torah does not like gays. For some Jews, this is not a difficult challenge to overcome. The Torah may have been inspired by God, but it was written by men. Its intolerance toward homosexuals can be written off as the outdated bigotry of a bygone age. For others, it is not a challenge at… Read More »
Right-wing pro-Israel blogger Ted Belman has recently embarrassed himself by joining the stampede of conservative Republicans so desperate to keep Senator Barack Obama out of the White House that they’ll say just about anything to scare people out of voting for him. Make no mistake, Belman and his ilk are scared. The smear tactics which… Read More »
To: worldservice@bbc.co.uk Cc: letters@camera.org, kklose@npr.org, info@wbur.bu.edu To whom it may concern: I just heard on the BBC News Hour, broadcast on the NPR station WBUR of Boston, an outrageously one-sided story about Hamas and the blockade of Gaza.
March 28, 2008 Dear Senator Nelson, I have just finished reading a March 27 article on cnn.com which discusses your proposal to overhaul the primary system, as well as to abolish the electoral college. I think you are right that the primary system needs to be reformed, and I have some ideas about how to… Read More »