JTA Election Central

Yesterday we told you about actress Maya Rubin supplying the Hebrew in Will.i.am’s pro-Obama’s montage of celebrities singing the mantra “Yes We Can,” lifted from one of the Illinois senator’s speech. Well, here’s a brief interview and some more information about the 20-something brunette (yes, I know her real age, but she hedged enough when [...]

Just in case you forgot during all the presidential hoopla, JTA is looking at the Democratic congressional primary in the 10th District of Illinois, where former Clinton aide and M.O.T. Jay Footlik is vying against Dan Seals to see who will get the chance to take on the strongly pro-Israel Republican incumbent Mark Kirk.
Footlik, who [...]

After filing a real live news story about the Jay Footlik vs. Dan Seals primary race for the 10th Congressional District in Illinois (instead of reportage through blogging) I got a frantic call from Simon Behrmann, Footlik’s campaign manager, informing me that my story contained a “factual error.”
It’s not the kind of call you want [...]

On Sunday night, after traveling Chicago’s suburbs for three days, trailing the two Illinois Democrats vying to knock Mark Kirk out of the state’s 10th Congressional district seat (here and here), I finally caught up with the Republican incumbent lat night — in New Jersey.
Kirk spoke to a mostly Modern Orthodox group of donors at [...]

I just got back from a meeting with Jay Footlik, and he may be the Jewiest congressional candidate we have seen in a long time.
Wearing a red “bendel” — otherwise known as a kabbalah string — around his wrist, Footlik met with me at a restaurant a couple of doors down from his campaign headquarters [...]