I know a very prominent family in that congregation, and they are far to the right of me. Can’t imagine any of them were in attendance yesterday.
My intuitive guess here is that all attendees were carefully screened for political orientation. The desired result: a good amount of applause, without any booing, hooting, heckling, or walking out on Obama.
EDINVA, I'd be interested if you could sound out the prominent conservative family that you mentioned, and see what they know about the audience vetting procedure used for the synagogue event.
Aside from the "First Jewish President" remark, the Obama speech - surely written by a Jewish lackey - was chock full of little buzz words and phrases calculated to push the correct buttons to pull at the Jewish leftists' heartstrings, but anyone with half a brain could tell that his speech didn't mesh with his abysmal personal history nor his record in office.