The two leading Democratic presidential candidates, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are popular among Jewish voters and are not in anyone's pocket, Jewish leaders and rabbis said in a New York Times blog. New York voters will go to the primaries on Tuesday.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who supports Sen. Clinton, admitted that "lots of people --Jews and others--will be voting for Barack." Sid Davidoff, a senior partner at one of New York’s largest lobbying firms, added that "there is going to be a split between established older voters in the Jewish community, with whom Hillary will do well, and younger and more liberal Jews who see Obama as an agent of change."

However, most polls show that Jews favor Sen. Clinton. An American Jewish Committee survey last year showed that 70 percent of Jewish Democrats had a favorable opinion of Senator Clinton compared with 45 percent for Senator Obama.