{"id":488,"date":"2008-04-04T01:54:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T01:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/clinton-launches-robust-jewish.html"},"modified":"2008-04-04T01:54:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T01:54:32","slug":"clinton-launches-robust-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/04\/clinton-launches-robust-jewish.html","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Launches Robust Jewish Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hillary30.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/hillary30.jpg\" width=\"108\" \/>Good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/news\/article\/20080402HillaryJewsPa04022008.html\">JTA <\/a>(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)  turned up a rare thing for this phase of the presidential race: an entirely new religion and politics story. Hillary Clinton has launched a serious Jewish outreach program in Pennsylvania this week, overseen by longtime top Clinton aide Ann Lewis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Obama&#8217;s campaign is continuing to attract Jewish support, Clinton is favored by most of the state&#8217;s Jewish political and communal heavyweights. Her list of supporters includes Gov. Ed Rendell, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz and the president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Leonard Barrack.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nLewis, saying that she personally signs off on all official communication to the Jewish community, insisted the Jewish-targeted e-mail and Internet attacks on Obama focusing on advisers with a critical view of Israel and his pastor are not emanating from campaign headquarters.<br \/>\nAnd publicly at least, Clinton&#8217;s Jewish point people are emphasizing her positive attributes.<br \/>\n&#8220;On every issue of importance to us \u2013 from the domestic agenda we call tikkun olam [repair of the world] to the U.S.-Israel relationship,&#8221; Clinton is &#8220;not just supportive, but she is a leader,&#8221; Lewis said to both the rabbis and the communal leaders in Philadelphia.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s not just what she says but what she does,&#8221; she added.<br \/>\nLewis cited as specifics her efforts to bring attention to anti-Israel, anti-Semitic Palestinian textbooks and to gain entry for Magen David Adom to the International Red Cross.<br \/>\nPressed to distinguish Clinton from Obama on specific issues, Lewis cited Iran. She reiterated Clinton&#8217;s position that she would not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.<br \/>\nNoting that Clinton sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lewis said the candidate is &#8220;for diplomacy and engagement, but it has to be smart.&#8221;<br \/>\nLewis chided Obama&#8217;s statement that he would sit with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his first year in office.<br \/>\n&#8220;You don&#8217;t give away a meeting with the president of the United States&#8221; without first requiring a change in behavior, she said.<br \/>\nAs they launched their statewide outreach effort, which includes at least eight more events in the next two weeks, Clinton&#8217;s backers scoffed at the notion that Clinton should drop out early&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting by the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) turned up a rare thing for this phase of the presidential race: an entirely new religion and politics story. 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