Jacques Berlinerblau discusses the newly minted organization Rabbis for Obama:
To begin with, the letter of support on the “Rabbis for Obama” website is puzzlingly bereft of any reference to classical Jewish texts. In constructing their case for the Senator from Illinois the signatories make passing reference to the notion of tikkun olam (i.e., the repairing of a broken world). Yet they fail to invoke in any substantive manner the Hebrew Bible, Mishna, Gemara, Midrash, Responsa literature, and so forth.
I am a secular Jew. I am a secular Jew who views the aforementioned sources as instructive, valuable, worthy of my study and respect but, ultimately, not determinative of my worldview. I don’t, however, think it’s logical or appropriate for a couple of hundred Rabbis representing Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Orthodox denominations to reason as if they were secular Jews. I would have preferred (and expected) to see the signers—who are a learned lot, I assure you—grounding their endorsement somewhere in the vast universe of Jewish knowledge.
Read his full article here and check out the website for Rabbis for Obama.