By Douglas M. Bloomfield
Jewish money. It’s the stuff of political myth, but it’s also the backbone of the pro-Israel lobby.Read More
By Douglas M. Bloomfield
Arlen Specter — once a Republican, now a Democrat — has long been one of Israel’s stalwarts in the Senate, serving on the critical operations committee, which writes the foreign aid spending bills. The “Jewish kid from Kansas,” as he called himself while standing next to President Obama on April 29, has taken his role as the senior Republican Jew in the U.S. Senate very seriously.
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