NEW YORK POST
Exodus: Jewish voters’ break with the Democrats will elevate our politics
Liel Leibovitz
November 10, 2024

A much-quoted Edison Research exit poll rattled expectations on Election Day when it claimed Kamala Harris had bagged 79% of the Jewish vote — disproving the notion that the left’s embrace of pro-Hamas protests would drive significant, maybe even historic, Jewish defections from the Democratic Party. It was a stunning bit of data. Except it wasn’t true. The poll was based on ten states — none of them New York, California or Massachusetts, where about half of America’s Jews actually live. In other words, trying to learn anything about American Jewish voting patterns by looking at the Edison poll was like attempting to study the preferences of McDonald’s customers by interviewing people who only eat salad for lunch — it won’t tell you much you can use. READ MORE

TABLET MAG Lee Smith: Obama Isn’t Going Anywhere The former president lost big on Nov. 5. But he doesn’t seem interested in leaving D.C., or American politics.

NY JEWISH WEEK At an Upper West Side synagogue, Jews gather to ‘sit shiva’ following Trump’s win The event at B’nai Jeshurun had been billed as “A Time of Prayer for the Neshamah [Soul] of Our Nation.” But after Wednesday’s results, it became a very different kind of gathering.

JNS Jonathan Tobin: The sorry symbolism of a pro-Israel rally that flopped A year after Oct. 7 and a successful unity rally, an empty ballpark is a metaphor for America Jewry’s weak response to the war on Israel and the resulting surge in antisemitism.