President Barack Obama has endorsed the Jewish Senatorial candidate Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) over his challenger, Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii), in the state’s Senate Democratic primary. Despite the president’s low popularity among Americans at large, Obama still wields considerable political clout in his home state of Hawaii thereby making his endorsement of Schatz a potentially decisive factor in the primaries.
Mr Schatz served as Lt. Governor of Hawaii until December for 2012 when he was appointed to serve out the late Daniel Inouye’s U.S. Senate term until the 2014 special election.
Despite making up only 1.7% of the total population of the U.S., Jews make up 10% of the Senatorial representation. Jews also played prominent roles in Obama’s first election campaign and occupied important cabinet position in both his first and current terms.
(Shaya Perns – YWN)
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I guess the Jews lose again.
Is this person Shomer Shabbos and Shomer Kashrus, and if not, who cares what his ancestors were?
Since Senator Lieberman retired, there have been no Jewish Senators. Only Senators whose ancestors were Jews, but who themselves reject Judaism. They may be halachically Jews, but so are many goyim (depending on whether their female side ancestry is Jewish).
If you use a halachic definition, a lot more than 1.7% of America is Jewish. If you use the Israeli definition (similar to Hitlers – any Jewish grandparent), the number rises radically. If you use the “one drop” rule (similar to that used to define “black” in the southern states, or used in Germany to make one ineligible to join the Gestapo) a considerable percentage of Americans are “Jewish”.
Functionally, if they don’t keep kosher and Shabbos, they are part of “them” and not part of “us”.
Obama is of the chasidi Imus haolam.
“Since Senator Lieberman retired, there have been no Jewish Senators.”
That is a complete distortion of Torah and I’m amazed that the moderators let it through. A Jew who isn’t shomer Shabat is still a Jew. (Yes, he/she is a Jew who sins, but he/she is still a Jew and can do tshuvah any time with no need for a conversion.)
Linda Lingle was a Jewish Replubican governor of Hawaii from 2002 – 2010.