Republicans take aim at Jewish vote in 2012

Republicans see a growing chance to make inroads in 2012 with Jewish voters, whose traditional loyalty to the Democratic Party has been tested by doubts about President Barack Obama 's policies on Israel. Obama has been criticized by some US Jewish leaders for being too tough on Israel. Those views were amplified when Republicans won a special House of Representatives election in a heavily Jewish district of New York this week, rattling Democrats. Obama won nearly eight of every 10 Jewish