{"id":246153,"date":"2010-01-29T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2399"},"modified":"2010-01-29T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:57:33","slug":"jewish-leaders-react-to-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246153","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Leaders React to State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Following President Obama&#8217;s first State of the Union address on Wednesday night, <a href=\"http:\/\/jspot.org\/diary\/2482\/video-jews-react-to-obama\">JSpot.org asked leaders throughout the Jewish community<\/a> for their thoughts and insights on the President&#8217;s words. Included in the video compilation below are reflections from Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of Just Congregations, and the RAC&#8217;s Rabbi David Saperstein.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aObEBoCcd1o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aObEBoCcd1o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Other contributors include: Nancy Kaufman, JCRC Boston; Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug, Jewish World Watch; Rabbi Steve Gutow, Jewish Council for Public Affairs; Elissa Barrett, Progressive Jewish Alliance; and Simon Greer, Jewish Funds for Justice. Click through to JSpot.org for a second video of additional community leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Missed the State of the Union address? Check it out:<\/p>\n<p>        <object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rTMrs9vpoqg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rTMrs9vpoqg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rac.org\/advocacy\/sotu\/2010\/\">Here&#8217;s what the RAC hopes for in 2010.<\/a> What do you think about the President&#8217;s first State of the Union address? What would <i>you<\/i> have said if you were interviewed for this video? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following President Obama&#8217;s first State of the Union address on Wednesday night, JSpot.org asked leaders throughout the Jewish community for their thoughts and insights on the President&#8217;s words. Included in the video compilation below are reflections from Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of Just Congregations, and the RAC&#8217;s Rabbi David Saperstein. Other contributors include: Nancy Kaufman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}