[MarineBrat]

I wonder if this is the election where Jews in America wake up?

[andy58-in-nh]

I wonder if this is the election where Jews in America wake up?

Perhaps they already have. I've got a number of (Jewish) relatives in the NYC metro area, and every single one I've talked to will vote for McCain over Obama, period.

[elhombrelibre]

The religious Jews are already with us. The others are not. It probably will not be the year they wake up. To many of today's Jews, their secularism is a badge of honor; they're too sophisticated to be concerned with their religion, like Teddy Kennedy, they won't even impose their religion on themself. The pull of being a Jew for the secular Jews is apparently just for Democratic identity politics and some type of ethnic identity. It's for conversation, not for influencing their actions. And the fate of Israel is such a far away concern for these types that they'd rather vote for Obama knowing he goes to a racist and anti-Zionist church than be thought of as having voted for the benighted Republicans they look down their noses at. We can hope they'll wake up, but I seriously doubt it. Obviously, the fate of Israel could be very impacted by this and our own nation's fate as well.