Is where you will find me on the Web starting ... now. It's been a good run, and I hope this photo rings true, but my run at the Daily News is about up. Monday I move across town to the Jewish Journal, and hopefully I won't fall on my face.

Either way, you can e-mail me there at BradG@jewishjournal.com. I'll keep blogging at thegodblog.org (which redirects to bradgreenberg.blogspot.com).

The Christian Science Monitor has an insightful read today on Sen. Barack Obama's lackluster start courting the much needed "Jewish vote" in his quest for the presidency. (I put that in quotes because, despite the relevance of garnering the votes of Jews, God's people do not vote as one.)

Washington - For a candidate intent on courting the Jewish vote, some of the headlines for Sen. Barack Obama in recent weeks have been less than heartening.

"Obama comment draws fire from Jews," the Des Moines Register declared after the senator's unscripted remark at an Iowa campaign stop in March that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people" from stalled peace efforts with the Israelis.

"Obama on the Mideast: Not quite comfortable," The Chicago Jewish Star said after his first major policy speech on the Middle East, to a pro-Israel group in his hometown.

And at last week's Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina, Senator Obama's omission of Israel in response to a question about America's top allies gave moderator Brian Williams an opening to revisit the Iowa flap in front of a television audience of more than 2 million.

No mention was made of Obama Christ.

The Forward has a biting piece tomorrow about the newfound friendship between "John Hagee, the firebrand evangelical Christian minister from San Antonio, Texas," who stole the show at Aipac's convention in March, and a growing number of Jewish federations:

“If you search through Jewish stories around the U.S., a lot of us have pieces of personal memory where non-Jews were there for us — not because they had a hidden agenda, but because they believed it was the right thing to do,” said Michal Kohane, the Israeli-born executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region. “There is a strong aspect of CUFI in which they are the descendants of that ideological concept.”

Just as liberals have criticized Aipac for giving Hagee the dais, they are now speaking out against the pastor’s grass-roots fundraising dinners. Most recently, a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, Betty McCollum, declined an invitation to attend an April 29 “Night To Honor Israel” in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, citing what she called “Hagee’s extremism, bigotry and intolerance.”

Pray for LA, a ministry started by the pastor of Metro Calvary Chapel in Santa Monica, will host its inaugural 5K run Saturday at Hansen Dam Recreational Center in Lake View Terrace. Entry costs $40 for adults and $25 for children, with $15 from each fee going to the Union Rescue Mission downtown. An entry form can be found here. Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. and the run will start at 8.

Employees at LA Councilman Jack Weiss' district office in Sherman Oaks found three red-and-black swastikas taped to the front of the building and a "short manifesto," via LA Times:

"We have no time to listen to Jewish American children!!! If you don't believe us, just try talking to us." Then there is an obscene reference to "a homoerotic cop" and what that cop should do to Weiss. It concludes "Heil Weiss!"

Weiss, who is Jewish, plans to run for city attorney in 2009. He has been under fire for his pro-development policies (not that I am drawing any parallels between that and the vandalism).

I've been getting all kinds of e-mails from a group called Faith in America that bills itself as "the emancipation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from bigotry disguised as religious truth."

Coinciding this morning with the National Day of Prayer, Mitchell Gold's Faith in America announced it would commence Sunday a five-city "Call to Courage" campaign. Target cities are off the beaten path: Ames, Iowa; Reno, Nevada; Manchester, New Hampshire; Greenville, South Carolina; and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Jim McGreevey, the former New Jersey governor who came out of the closet while in office and resigned because of an alleged affair, has converted into the Episcopal Church and will enter its General Theological Seminary in Manhattan. (The ordination of gay priests has become, to put it mildly, a contentious issue in the U.S. branch of King Henry's church.)

Here's the word from the Newark Star-Ledger, which broke the story online today: