The list includes: Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com who has been listed on the Forbes 400 richest Americans; U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), whose mother is a Holocaust survivor and who identifies himself as of Jewish descent; Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff who acted as a liaison in that post to the Jewish community; Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), a prominent civil rights liberal who likely will be tapped to make Obama’s case to a Democratic Party constituency disappointed by Obama’s retention of anti-terrorism practices introduced by his predecessor; Penny Pritzker, the hotel heiress and Forbes listee who has backed Obama since the launch of his political career in the 1990s, and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), who represents a Chicago-area constituency with a substantial Jewish population and a backer of Obama for nearly a decade. – JTA Via the Forward
7 of Obama’s 35 Campign Co-Chairs are Jewish
