Ben Smith at Politico has spotted the Jew in the Obama reelection launch video! Watch the video below to see if you can find it, then click through to Politico for Smith’s answer. [Politico]
Oscar Goodman, the mayor Las Vegas is a gin-swilling gambler with showgirls at his campaign events. And now his wife is running for mayor. Also, he was almost a rabbi. [Tablet]
U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) got an anti-semitic note and a bloody pig foot in the mail. Also, he’s not a Jew. [JTA]
We’re not the only people doing this, BTW. College Media Matters, a must-read blog for anyone involved in any way with college news media, has the story of NextGen Journal, “a student-run news and commentary site.” [CMM]
Israelis are talking about it too: “Will American Jews… continue to support Israel if it maintains its currently politics, social and religious orientations? Yes–and no…” [Haaretz]
A new Jewish dating site… for Jewish professionals? Or is it just social networking? [Jewster]
And on our Northwestern University blog: “The need for liberal Judaism on college campuses“, in which Ben Goldberg checks in on the student-run initiative to save the Conservative movement’s college programming; and “Woody Allen’s strained sense of Jewish romance,” in which Mike Goldstein admits, among other things, “It’s almost embarrassing how totally the man has shaped my sense of culture and intellectualism.”
