Leiby Kletzky prompted Hasidic community's finest, saddest hours Plus 10,000 attend Kletzky's funeral, and more in the news Remembering the late First Lady Police have suspect in custody  | |  Barack Obama's poll numbers are down among Jews—and that's normal. For more than 30 years, nearly every incumbent president has fared less well among Jews in his re-election effort than in his first campaign. A Gallup poll released last week found that President Barack Obama's approval rating stood at 60 percent among Jewish Americans—an 18 point drop from the 78 percent of Jews who voted for him in 2008. "The question," suggested the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's Ron Kampeas "is whether Obama's Jewish popularity dip since '08 stems from the same cause of his fall generally—America's persistent economic problems—or whether it has to do with the president's policies on Israel." He continued: "Apparently the interpretation depends on who is answering. Democrats and Gallup say it's the economy; Republicans say it's Israel." More  | Before he was the famous voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Woody Woodpecker, Mel Blanc was a Jewish kid in Portland, Ore., doing impressions of his immigrant neighbors More BY KATIE SCHNEIDER |  | In the new Jewish Edition of the word-guessing game Taboo, developed by two twentysomethings and a Jewish-games company, clues lean a little bit Zionist, and "Adam Sandler" was deemed too secular More | |
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