“What underlies a lot of the angst on the part of the American Jewish community is this administration’s treatment of Israel,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told POLITICO at the end of last week. “It’s almost unfathomable how the relationship started, with President Obama going to Cairo and speaking toward the Arab world in open and welcoming terms but demanding Israel stop construction in Jerusalem.”

The article suggested Mr. Romney’s goal is to lesson Mr. Obama’s advantage among Jewish voters, and his trip to Israel this weekend was part of that effort. And, while the full electoral impact of his overseas endeavor is impossible to discern, Mr. Romney’s trip — and support for moving America’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — did receive solid media coverage by both Jewish and non-Jewish outlets, especially in New York. Read More