Rabbis for Obama and JVP

Starting September 20, 2012, Jewish Voice for Peace is running this ad in Jewish newspapers in Philadelphia, Cleveland and New York in response to an ongoing campaign of villification against rabbis who support an end to Israel's occupation. Download pdf of the ad here.

Media Links

Aug. 21:
Obama campaign announces Rabbis for Obama:
http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/obama-for-america-launches-rabbis-for-obama
and publishes list of rabbis on campaign website:
http://www.barackobama.com/rabbis

Aug. 23
Republican Jewish Coalition press release 
http://www.rjchq.org/2012/08/rjc-calls-for-removal-of-obama-campaigns-radical-rabbi/

Adam Kredo, "Dinner with Ahmadinejad: A 'Rabbi for Obama' once had dinner with Iran's anti-Semitic president" Wash. Free Beacon 
http://freebeacon.com/radical-rabbi/

Nathaniel Botwinick, "Obama's Anti-Israel Rabbi"  National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314821/obamas-anti-israel-rabbi-nat...

Daniel Treiman, "RJC blasts Obama campaign over one of its rabbinic endorsers" JTA
http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2012/08/23/3104891/rjc-blasts-obam...

Jonathan Tobin, "Obama Rabbis Must Disavow Anti-Zionist" Commentary
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/08/23/rabbis-for-obama-must-disav...

Daniel Halper, "Kristol to Obama: Repudiate Anti-Israel Figures Among 'Rabbis for Obama'"  Weekly Standard
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/kristol-obama-repudiate-anti-israel-...

Suzanne Pollak, "RJC, ECI demand removal of 'radical' rabbi from Obama list" JTA
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/23/3104911/rjc-eci-demand-remova...

Jonathan Tobin, "Obama Rabbis Must Disavow Anti-Zionist(s)" Commentary
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/08/23/obama-rabbis-must-disavow-a...

Natasha Mozgovaya, "Does a good Jew vote for Obama? Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb explains why she joined 'Rabbis for Obama' and why Obama's campaign isn't at fault for including her on the list" Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/does-a-good-jew-vote-for-obama.premium-1.460417

Aaron Klein, "Obama Campaign Refuses to Drop 'Radical' Rabbi" WorldNetDaily 
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/obama-campaign-refuses-to-drop-radical-rabbi/...

Phan Nguyen, "Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb is latest target in anti-Obama campaign" Mondoweiss
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/08/rabbi-lynn-gottlieb-is-latest-target-in-an...

Aug. 24
JTA, "Conservatives to Obama: Cut ties with 'radical' rabbi" The Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/USPresidentialrace/Article.aspx?id=282442

Adam Chandler, "Talking with Obama's 'Radical' Rabbi: Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, a pacifist, pulls no punches" Tablet Magazine
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/110184/talking-with-obamas-radical-rabbi-2

Rabbis Alissa Wise and Brant Rosen, "Keep Obama's Rabbis" The Jewish Daily Forward
http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/161702/keep-obamas-rabbis/

Aug. 26
Stewart Ain, "Controversial Rabbi Pushes Back Against RJC Claims" The Jewish Week
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york-news/controversial-rabbi-push...

Aug. 27
Peter Beinart, "How Bill Kristol and JVP Are Both 'Israel-Agnostic'" The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/27/how-bill-kristol-and-jv...

Aug. 29
Bryan Schwartzman, "600 Rabbis Show Support for Obama" Jewish Exponent
http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/26493/600_Rabbis_Show_Support_for_...

Sep. 4
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, "Why Is the Republican Jewish Coalition Attacking Me?" Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-lynn-gottlieb/why-is-the-republican-...

Sep. 13
Tom Tugend, "The Race is On for Kosher Vote in US Presidential Election" The Jewish Chronicle
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/80613/the-race-kosher-vote-us-presi...

Sep. 20
Ron Snyder, "Rabbis for Obama" Baltimore Jewish Times
http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/rabbis_for_obama/32648