Romney would up defense aid to Israel, reports Jerusalem Post via the JTA. Romney“delivered the first major foreign policy speech of his campaign Friday at The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina… Romney said he would increase defense assistance to Israel, raise the US military profile near Iran and recognize Israel as a Jewish state.”
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Obama’s Jewish Team Lays Out Path Back to White House, reports the Forward. “For the past three months, a group of President Obama’s Jewish supporters has been getting together for a weekly conference call to discuss strategy. The group, includes, among others, former White House adviser David Axelrod, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Congress members Robert Wexler and Mel Levine, Chicago Jewish activist and attorney Alan Solow, and mega-donor Penny Pritzker. Together, they have been trying to figure out how to overcome a relatively successful Republican attempt to plant doubts among Jewish voters regarding Obama’s relations with Israel.”
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Religion in national politics is always relevant for Jewish voters. Politico reports that Texas pastor Robert Jeffress who introduced Texas Governor Rick Perry at the Values Voter Summit, said Friday that Mormonism is a “cult.” The Perry Camp didn’t approve of this statement, and Romney fans are of course not happy with this.
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the highest-ranking Jewish Republican in American politics, will be Sunday afternoon at an event in Westchester County, NY hosted for him.
