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Obama is the First Jewish President. 
Yup... that's what a madcap John Heilemann writing in the New York mag said about Obama.  And, their cover pic was probably supposed to be joke,  but alas many people are weeping to see Americans, especially American "journalists"  losing all sense of truth and dignity.  Heilemann goes on to say that Barack Obama is the best friend Israel has right now.  Nothing is further from that statement.

I have been writing about 21st century anti-Semitism since the turn of the century.

Words don't fail me, nor has my spirit grown dim. But what is now going on is so ghastly, so omnipresent, so "over the top," that even a careful wordsmith is hard-pressed to describe it accurately without sounding (and being accused of sounding) "paranoid," "hysterical," "strident," and, yes, "utterly without a sense of humor."

I am finding it hard to laugh about John Heilemann's cover story in New York magazine. Heilemann is a regular contributor to New York's pages and has also penned a book about Barack Obama's "hope" campaign on which he worked.....

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