Jewish Exponent People and Politics Feed http://www.jewishexponent.com RON KAMPEAS Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON Ehud Olmert was shocked: Condoleezza Rice wasn't doing what she was told -- the U.S. secretary of state was going to vote in favor of a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an imme... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18045/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18045/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT In myriad ways, a number of Jewish area residents are getting set to take part in the inaugural festivities, either in the nation's capital -- where huge crowds and frigid temperatures are expected -- or much closer to home. "I don't care... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18085/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18085/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT With Israeli ground forces battling Hamas fighters in Gaza -- and as casualties there mount and rockets continue to fall on cities in southern Israel -- speculation has grown about just what course President-elect Barack Obama will take whe... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18000/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18000/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT For months, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, in his capacity as chair of the National Governors Association, has tried to call attention to the commonwealth's and the country's crumbling infrastructures, especially aging highways and bridges t... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17738/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17738/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT State Rep. Josh Shapiro's (D-District 153) rapid rise in Pennsylvania politics -- described by some observers of Harrisburg as unprecedented -- appears to have hit a roadblock, or at least a significant hurdle. When the next legislative se... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17688/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17688/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT Two days after winning a hotly contested New Jersey congressional seat, John Adler, a Democratic state senator, managed to squeeze in a workout at his gym at the Betty & Milton Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill, N.J. Adler re... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17582/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17582/ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT In the wake of a historic victory for the Democratic Party -- from the race for the White House to the battle for the Pennsylvania state House -- U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D-District 7), a retired admiral in the U.S. Navy, likened the country t... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17583/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17583/ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT Eric Fingerhut Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON The only Jewish GOPer in the U.S. House of Representatives is poised to become its second-highest-ranking Republican. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is likely to ascend to the minority whip... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17584/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17584/ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The 111th U.S. Congress is slated to have 13 Jewish senators and 32 members of the House of Representatives. But one of the most hotly contested Senate races, pitting two Jewish candidates against each other in Minnesota... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17585/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17585/ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who recently stumped for Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, and U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, a Texas Republican and physician who recently gave a slew of interviews touting John McCain's health plan, don't... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17464/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17464/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT For weeks, no one was sure whether the Democrat or Republican had won the race. Ultimately, a contentious recount reversed the apparent result that had been announced on election night. No, it wasn't the disputed 2000 presidential election... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17465/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17465/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT In October 2006, the month before the midterm elections, 106 American soldiers lost their lives in Iraq. At that point, the Sunni and Sh'ite populations appeared embroiled in a full-scale civil war. On the home front, the conflict grew incr... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17401/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17401/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT How's this for an unusual intersection of religion and politics? A group of about 15 rabbinical students from Hebrew Union College in New York (with a few cantorial and education students thrown in) recently joined a number of their counter... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17402/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17402/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Once former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani withdrew last year from contention for the Republican party presidential nomination, he soon after endorsed his longtime friend Sen. John McCain. Now he's not only endorsing the man, he's speaki... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17403/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17403/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Eric Fingerhut Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin attempts to inject Barack Obama's controversial former pastor back into the presidential campaign, the Republican vice-presidential candidate is facing increa... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17345/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17345/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT While all signs are pointing to the economy as the decisive issue in the upcoming election, both locally and nationally, it was questions on foreign policy and Iraq that drew the most-forceful responses during a debate at a Bucks County syn... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17346/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17346/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Barack Obama's campaign is continuing its heavy outreach to Jewish voters in the Philadelphia area. On Oct. 13, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) spoke in front of a packed auditorium at the JCC Klein Branch in Northeast Philadelphia. Th... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17347/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17347/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT In the history of voter-outreach campaigns, there's never been anything quite like this. "The Great Schlep" kicked off last weekend as an attempt by young Jewish voters to convince their grandparents in Florida to vote for Democratic presi... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17348/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17348/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT The race between state Sen. Andrew Dinniman (D-District 19) and his Republican challenger Steve Kantrowitz -- who both happen to be Jewish and live in Chester County-- has largely been low-key, lacking partisan fireworks. Part of the reaso... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17349/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17349/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT While the two presidential candidates have based their pitches to the Jewish community largely around Israel and foreign policy issues, the American Jewish Committee's annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion shows that the paramount issue... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17288/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17288/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT