For Jewish Voters in New York, ‘Almost an Embarrassment of Riches’

[TomClash]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/nyregion/03jewish.html?ref=nyregion

The notion that New York’s Jewish electorate can be easily characterized has long been debated. But the looming primary election on Tuesday is raising new speculation about how strongly Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama will appeal to Jewish Democrats.

“I don’t speak for the Jewish community,” said former Mayor Edward I. Koch, “and nobody speaks for the Jewish community. The Jews, individually, speak for themselves.”

And though these days he himself is speaking up for Senator Clinton, Mr. Koch acknowledges that “lots of people — Jews and others — will be voting for Barack.”

The situation is “almost an embarrassment of riches for the Jewish voter,” said Ammiel Hirsch, senior rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

[pretzel4gore]

1. Koch is a fanatical bush supporter!

he has a baseball bat with words 'liberal/democratic heads here' and has a pinochet portrait in his study...Ed keeps a jar of nickels by his door to tip the workmen, whom Koch despises as failures, lazy stupid etc...iow Ed Koch is a repuckklican!
what does this say about Clinton or Obama?
btw the NYTimes is a criminal run organ...never forget