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...Barack Obama doesn’t become the next president of the United States,” comedian Sarah Silverman says in her YouTube video advertisement for The Great Schlep, “I’m gonna blame the Jews.” In September, when I went home for Rosh Hashanah and told my family that I supported Obama, I heard a very different ultimatum: If Barack Obama does become the next president of the United States, they’re going to blame the Jews. Orthodox Jews like my parents are an often overlooked demographic, even...
...Great Schlep—a movement started by the Jewish Council for Education and Research to encourage Jewish grandchildren to visit their grandparents in Florida and convince them to vote for Obama—Silverman asserts that the targeted demographic won’t vote for Obama for a number of reasons. These bubbes and zaides may think “his name sounds scary; it sounds Muslim,” among other superficial issues...
...Obviously, Silverman intended her ad to be funny, but her plea is quite serious. Now more than ever, even Jews who support—and will vote for—Obama and the Democrats, have taken extra impetus to do so, not just because of Obama’s Muslim-sounding name. According to a 2008 annual survey by the American Jewish Committee, Obama has 57 percent of the American Jewish vote , the lowest Jewish support for a Democratic candidate since Carter’s feeble 45 percent in 1980 against Republican challenger Ronald Reagan. And by ignoring the fundamental...
...Silverman is not alone in asserting that Obama’s policies towards Israel are strong. Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz recently published an opinion piece in which defended his support of Obama because “the election of…a liberal supporter of Israel will enhance Israel’s position among wavering liberals.” Last week, Steve Grossman, former president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, championed Obama’s commitment to Israel’s security at a discussion of the candidates’ foreign policies at the Harvard...
...decorated rooms in Eliot, the America room was by far the best decorated place I saw this weekend,” said Brett L. Silverman ’12, “I felt like I was on a set for some Old Western flick...