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Article “Romney’s Veto Could Hurt Him with Jewish Voters”
January 31, 2007
By Ryan Grim, The Politico, January 31, 2007.

Article “Five Steps for Democrats to Keep the Faith”
January 09, 2007
By Nathan J. Diament. "Democrats have profited from religious votes, now they have the chance to follow through..."

“Renaissance Of Ideas”
January 05, 2007
Article by Maayan Jaffe in The Baltimore Jewish Times: ""During the war I cried a lot," says 11-year-old Sapir from Nahariya. "I didn't want to go …

Torn Between the Land and the State
November 30, 2006
Article in The Forward: "Here's a measure of the political mood in America's Modern Orthodox community: At a convention last week in Jerusalem of the Union …

Israel Criticism Gets An O-U
November 30, 2006
New York Jewish Week article: "It's now kosher to dissent from government policy on West Bank withdrawal, top Orthodox group resolves"

Freedom to oppose government reflects generational rift in OU
November 28, 2006
JTA article: "As Israeli forces mobilized in the summer of 2005 to remove 8,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip, anger mounted among American Orthodox Jews. Not …

Democrats Reaching Out To The Orthodox?
November 16, 2006
The Orthodox community remains "a real swing vote" in national politics, says the OU's Nathan Diament...

Synagogues, Jewish groups seek the line between legal, illegal political talk
October 31, 2006
JTA story on election rules for nonprofits. "With high-profile IRS investigations of several churches since the 2004 election unnerving Jewish leaders, a recent conference call focused …

OP-ED: Remember Hamas’s Rockets
August 08, 2006
What Israel has been sorely lacking in its confrontation with Hamas is any international recognition of its full withdrawal from Gaza. Irrespective of Cpl. Shalit's return, …

Future of Orthodox Jewish Vote Has Implications for GOP
August 03, 2006
The Jewish group proving most receptive to Republican overtures over the past decade is among the smallest: Orthodox Jews. Right now, they account for roughly 10 …

National Review Online: “Stemming the Incivility” by Joseph Loconte
July 20, 2006
"President Bush's veto of a bill allowing federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell research is generating a predictable cacophony of anguish and acrimony...the statement by the Union of …

Op-Ed: Olmert Should Engage with US Orthodox
June 19, 2006
An op-ed by Stephen Savitsky and Nathan J. Diament (originally published in Ha'aretz).

“Give Credit Where It’s Due”
April 06, 2006
OP-ED by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb & the Rev. A.R. Bernard: "Seeing that each child, whether rich or poor, has access to the …

“Academic Credit: Tax proposals are fair and equitable”
March 12, 2006
Article by Mark Bane and Howie Beigelman, as published in the Albany Times Union, Sunday, March 12, 2006: "They came from every corner of the state, …

Rebuffed in D.C., Jewish groups turning to states on social issues
January 24, 2006
With doors closing on them in Washington, social policy advocates in the Jewish community increasingly are looking for open windows...

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