2009 The Race for Governor

• Economic integrity (August 27, 2009)
• A capacity for caring
• All about the money
• Attracting immigrants
• Extending the safety net; Israel and New Jersey: affairs of state
• National electoral picture and Distressed women and families
• Health care and school funding

2008 Presidential Election

• October 30, 2008

• June Fischer, Constituent service representative in the office of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
• Meryl Frank, Mayor of Highland Park; chair, Obama Jewish Community Leadership Committee of New Jersey
• Roy Tanzman, President, New Jersey Association of Jewish Federations

• October 23, 2008

• Max Kleinman, Executive vice president of United Jewish Communities of MetroWest New Jersey
• Cheryl Halpern, Republican activist, Livingston resident, and former chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

• October 16, 2008

• Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn, Professor of political science at Kean University in Union
• Merle Kalishman, Chair of the Community Relations Committee of United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ
• Robert Weisbuch, President, Drew University, Madison

• October 9, 2008

• Sharon Falkin, President of National Council of Jewish Women, Essex County Section
• Warren Grover, Board member, New Jersey Historical Society; cofounder, Newark History Society; author of Nazis in Newark, former president, Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest
• Azriel Fellner, Writer, film critic, former religious leader, Temple Beth Shalom, Livingston
• Etzion Neuer, Director of the New Jersey region of the Anti-Defamation League

• October 6, 2008

• Rabbi Ira Budow, Head of school, Abrams Hebrew Academy, Yardley, Pa.
• Lynn Sherman, Chair of the social action committee, Women’s Philanthropy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County, and chair of the Sept. 21 Jewish women voters’ forum at Rutgers University

• October 2, 2008

• Paul Tractenberg, Professor, Rutgers School of Law-Newark
• Herb Horowitz, President of the Central New Jersey Chapter of American Jewish Committee

• September 25, 2008

• Carol Simon, Attorney, graduate student in Christian-Jewish studies at Seton Hall University, Holocaust Council of MetroWest volunteer
• Jacob Toporek, Executive director, NJ State Association of Jewish Federations

• September 18, 2008

• Stephen Flatow, Past chair, Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ
• Jon Shure, President, New Jersey Policy Perspective
• Jared Silverman, Attorney, Republican Party activist, member of the Community Relations Committee of United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ

• September 11, 2008

• Allyson Gall, Executive director of the Metro New Jersey Area of the American Jewish Committee
• Ben Chouake, President of NORPAC and delegate to the Republican National Convention
• Shai Goldstein, Executive director of the New Jersey Immigration Policy Network
• Rabbi Clifford Kulwin, Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston