‘President Obama has made Israel stronger than ever’
A famous scholar of American Jewish life once observed that we ‘earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans’. We are committed to building a just and compassionate society and want our nation to provide a safety net with basic social services, even if we might not personally benefit from such programs.
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The Republicans know that they cannot hope to appeal to Jewish voters when domestic issues are what’s on the table. Rather than offering a sensible domestic program that our community might support, they have therefore courted our votes the only way they know how: on foreign policy. But try as they might, the GOP cannot obliterate the fact that President Obama has spent four years making our ally Israel stronger than ever before.