Congregation Shaarey Zedek

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and

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Cordially invite you to attend the

Annual Tribute Dinner

honoring

GOP Middle

Jewish Republicans hope the party
is moving toward the center.

Ron Kampeas
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The economy — and foreign policy,
particularly Israel — certainly were the
issues driving the narrative at the RJC
event.

Las Vegas

Dr. Steven H.
Glickman

Dr. Susan E. Harold

Dr. Mark J. Uzansky

Keynote Speaker

Danny Biran
Ambassador Administrative Affairs
Consulate General of Israel, New York
Leader, Haiti Earthquake Relief — Israeli Medical Corps

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Strolling Dinner — 6:00 p.m.
Program and Dessert Buffet to follow

Congregation Shaarey Zedek
27375 Bell Road
Southfield, Ml 48034

Couvert $100

(not tax deductible)

Tribute Dinner Co-Chairs
Dr. William M. Leuchter
Dr. Arthur S. Lieberman
Dr. Harris W. Mainster

William Rubenfaer

Dr. Gerald Uzansky

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April 14 2011

New Issues
The two likely candidates to address
the audience in the open forum, Sen.
John Thune (R-S.D.) and former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, wove
both the economy and foreign policy
into their challenges to President Obama,
whom they and just
about everyone else
pledged to make a
one-term president.
Notably, neither man
mentioned social
issues.
Both lambasted
Obama for what they
said was the distance
he had established
between the United
States and Israel,
breaking with a tradition of decades of
closeness.
Romney said Obama's attempt to
appear evenhanded in Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations led him to "castigate Israel
while having nothing to say about thou-
sands of rockets being launched into

The Obama administration has
condemned Hamas rocket attacks on
Israel, although its tense exchanges with
Netanyahu's government over settlement
building have received much greater
attention in the Jewish community.
Thune said the Obama administra-
tion's emphasis on settlements made it
appear that they were the reason peace
talks were not advancing while ignor-
ing Arab recalcitrance and the Iranian
nuclear threat.

GOP Middle on page 46

Honorary Co-chairs

Dr. Nicholas Kerin

t the Republican Jewish
Coalition's winter leadership
retreat, it was the absence of
certain likely candidates for president
that had the crowd most excited.
While names like Sarah Palin and
Michele Bachmann
generate enthusiasm at
some other conserva-
tive gatherings, their
absence in Las Vegas
had the Jewish crowd
giddy that ahead of
the 2012 race, the
Republican Party may
be retreating from the
divisive hyper-conser-
vatives that have frus-
trated Jewish attraction
to the party in recent years.
At this GOP gathering, the heroes
were probable presidential hopefuls
who are likelier to sway Jews from their
traditional Democratic home and toward
Republican candidates with positions
on issues like the economy and foreign
policy.
Matt Brooks, RJC's executive director,
told a questioner that the social issues
that have driven Jews away from the
Republican Party in the past — abor-
tion, gay rights, church-state separation
— were hardly registering now
"Social issues get a large role in cam-
paigns when there's not a lot of other
issues at the forefront',' he said. Instead,
the issues now are America's economic
health and job loss, Brooks said."That's
what will drive the narrative,' he said.

