Some hope Obama can rebuild black-Jewish alliance
By Nicole Neroulias

NEW YORK -- Rabbi Marc Schneier has spent decades trying to revive the black-Jewish alliance of the 1960s, when African-American ministers and bearded rabbis marched together for civil rights.

Some Jewish voters have expressed doubts about Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, citing both his Muslim relatives and his personal history with his fiery former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. What's more, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., perhaps the nation's best-known Jewish politician, is supporting Obama's Republican opponent, John McCain.

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It was a bond forged in a shared sense of persecution. In 1964, two of the three civil rights workers who were murdered in Mississippi, Andrew Goodwin and Michael Schwerner, were Jews; the third, James Chaney, was black.