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RUSH: The Trump comment about liberal Jews, the disloyalty comment. Folks, this is the kind of line a lot of people look at it as a throwaway line. This line that Trump uttered is going to have more impact, positive impact for Trump, than many people will ever imagine. ‘Cause basically what he said is that liberal Jews voting Democrat are being disloyal. He didn’t mean disloyal to America. He meant disloyal to Israel. And the thing is we’ve all thought this for I don’t know how many years. We’ve all wondered, why doesn’t anybody say it other than us?...

David Ainsman really began to get worried about President Barack Obama’s standing with his fellow Jewish Democrats when a recent dinner with his wife and two other couples — all Obama voters in 2008 — nearly turned into a screaming match. Ainsman, a prominent Democratic lawyer and Pittsburgh Jewish community leader, was trying to explain that Obama had just been offering Israel a bit of “tough love” in his May 19 speech on the Arab Spring. His friends disagreed — to say the least. One said he had the sense that Obama “took the opportunity to throw Israel under the...

Funders call emergency aid to Israeli Arabs an ‘imperative’ by Robert Wiener NJJN Staff Writer Leaders of New Jersey Jewish federations are defending emergency allocations to Arab and Druze citizens of Israel who suffered or were threatened when Hizbullah rocket attacks crashed into the country’s North during the summer’s war in Lebanon. Responding to allegations from a right-wing pro-Israel activist that Israeli Arabs are a “fifth column,” the fund-raisers say that their beneficiary agencies do not discriminate by race or religion, and that it is irresponsible to make generalizations about a population that numbers 1.2 million. In his weekly e-mail...

LYNCHBURG, Va. — A Jewish organization is calling on the Rev. Jerry Falwell (search) to retract a "vote Christian in 2008" statement made months ago in a letter raising money for his ministries. The criticism of Falwell appeared Monday on the Web site of the Anti-Defamation League (search), a group organized in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism. Falwell, founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., and Moral Majority, included with his mass fund-raising letter for Falwell Ministries a sticker that reads, "I Vote Christian."