Obama elected the first jewish president of Harvard Law Review, says Harvard Law Review

Never mind Georges Bush, Bill Clinton Blythe Rockefeller, LBJ, Ike, Truman, FDR, Abe Lincoln

Baruch (Hebrew: "Blessed") has been a given name among Jews from Biblical times up to the present, on some occasions also used as surname. See also: Baraka and Barakah. The root B-R-K meaning "blessing" is also present in other Semitic languages. The most common Arabic form is the passive form Mubarak,