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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

GOP candidates: Make threat against Iran clearer

JTAPublished February 23, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Three of the four Republican presidential candidates said the United States should make a more explicit threat of military action against Iran. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich agreed in the CNN debate on Wednesday in Arizona...

Jewish backers of Rick Santorum, shown speaking at an Arizona
Republican Party fundraiser in Phoenix on Feb. 21, 2012, say Jewish
voters should look past his hard-line social conservatism and
consider his message on the economy and on Israel.

Surging Santorum has Jewish GOPers shrugging, shvitzing and kvelling

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished February 21, 2012

WASHINGTON -- If Rick Santorum secures the Republican nomination, expect to hear this mantra from his Jewish supporters: In times of crisis, social issues don’t matter. The former Pennsylvania senator, who is leading in national polls in the race for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks of President
Barack Obamas commitment with Israel in a seven-minute internet
video released by the Obama campaign. The video is part of an
effort to respond to attacks on Obamas record on Israel.

Republicans—and Democrats—pitch to Florida Jews

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished January 25, 2012

WASHINGTON-Barack Obama won't show up on the vote tallies after polls close in Florida's Republican primary on Jan. 31, but the president's supporters already are waging a fight for the Sunshine State. Democrats are rolling out a campaign to rival any...

The White House said it deleted the reference to Israel in a
photo caption on its website of Vice President Joe Biden having
breakfast with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the
David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem in March 2010 to reflect a
longstanding U.S. policy on the citys status. Official White House
photo by David Lienemann

Solving the White House photo mystery over ‘Jerusalem, Israel’

By Adam Kredo, JTA/ Washington Jewish Week, WashingtonPublished August 17, 2011

Jerusalem: To be or not to be part of Israel. That's the question that White House administrations have tiptoed around for decades.The State Department neither recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's official capital nor views the eastern part of the city -...

President Obama’s pro-Israel record

By Rep. Steve RothmanPublished August 10, 2011

(This commentary first appeared on Politico.com) - Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, recently declared, "President Obama treats Israel ... as a problem, rather than as an ally." The Republican presidential candidate emphasized that Obama has an "anti-Israel...

Sen. Joe Lieberman, right, shown visiting special operations
forces in Afghanistan on July 4, says his strong Jewish faith leads
him to forge an independent path, striking alliances with both
parties. Photo: Sgt. Lizette Hart, U.S. Military Public Affairs

Lieberman scaled political heights, but wants his legacy to be the Sabbath

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished August 10, 2011

WASHINGTON - Call Joe Lieberman the unlikely evangelical. The Independent senator from Connecticut - and the best-known Orthodox Jew in American politics - is probably more cognizant than most of his Jewish congressional colleagues about rabbinical interdictions...

President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk with reporters in the Oval Office after their meeting, May 20.

Is Obama charting a new course on Israeli-Palestinian issues?

By Uriel Heilman, JTA, WASHINGTONPublished May 25, 2011

President Barack Obama knew he had some damage control to do when he took the podium before thousands of Israel supporters on Sunday morning at the opening plenary of the annual AIPAC conference. But he wasn't offering any apologies for his speech three...

Editorial: Obama Gets Osama

Published May 4, 2011

"BIN LADEN IS DEAD" reads the headline in Monday's edition of the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch, taking its place alongside those momentous  stories which imprint themselves on the collective memories of all  Americans.  Nearly 10 years after the horrific...

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