Jewish Republican Senators: Extinct!

With Arlen Specter (RD-PA)’s switch to the Democratic Party, there are now no Jewish Republicans left in the United States Senate! (The other Jewish Republican senator, Norm Coleman (R-MN), lost his seat in the 2008 election, and so far has spent his retirement obstructing the seating of his successor. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has never adopted the Republican label, and continues to caucus with the Democrats.)

This is the first time that there have been no Jewish Republican senators since Jacob Javits (R-NY) entered the Senate in 1957, representing a very different Republican party. Eric Cantor (R-VA) is the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives.

Swearing In, Faithfully

We won’t have Norm to kick around anymore…

End of an Era (Im yirtzeh)

Inaugural Sermons

Inauguration Celebrations DC ~ NY ~ SF

Whew… Israel is Blue

Obama, Don’t Be a Friend of Israel!

Lech Lecha: a meditation on poetry

GObama!

It’s good for the Jews

Remembering Yitzak Rabin on Election Day

An Election Day story from ‘04

Vote, with intention: A Prayer for the Voting Booth

The one page of Talmud you MUST read before voting!

Quit dissing my Bubbe now, ‘kay?

Edgar M. Bronfman puts his finger on it: “Israel’s Best Interest is a Morally Strong America”

The Aspirations of Joe the Plumber

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