Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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Opinion No, Mr. President, It Isn’t Just Extremism. It’s Jihad
President Obama may have a fine plan in the works for combating what he calls “violent extremism,” but he doesn’t do the cause any good by tiptoeing around the problem. There are many sources of violent extremism in the world, but there’s basically just one that’s terrorizing vast sections of humanity right now, and that’s…
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Breaking News Rahm Emanuel Wins Backing From President Obama Ahead of Election
President Barack Obama appeared side-by-side on Thursday with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, his former chief of staff, who has faced declining approval ratings among black voters as he seeks a second term in city elections next week. Obama’s appearance at the event, which designated part of the South Side’s Pullman neighborhood as a national monument,…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu’s Feud With White House Deepens as Speech to Congress Looms
(Reuters) — For someone who was educated in the United States, speaks fluent American-accented English and worked as a management consultant in Boston, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sure knows how to rub his closest ally up the wrong way. In surprisingly critical and unvarnished comments on Wednesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest accused Israel…
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Israel News Will Black Lawmakers’ Anger Over Benjamin Netanyahu Speech Hurt Support for Israel?
In fewer than 140 characters, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York summed up the feelings of many African-American lawmakers toward Israel’s leader these days. “Bibi:” the 23-term representative tweeted, “If you have a problem with our POTUS’s foreign policy meet me at AIPAC but not on the House floor.” Rangel, a frequent attendee of…
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Breaking News Iran Leader Sends ‘Secret’ Letter to Barack Obama
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has responded to overtures from U.S. President Barack Obama amid nuclear talks by sending him a secret letter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Citing an Iranian diplomat, the paper said the Iranian cleric had written to Obama in recent weeks in response to a presidential letter sent…
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Breaking News Ruth Bader Ginsburg Admits ‘Not 100% Sober’ for State of Union Nap
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says there was a good reason she nodded off while attending President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last month: “I wasn’t 100 percent sober.” Ginsburg, 81, could be seen falling asleep in her seat during Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress in the House of…
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Breaking News 5 More Black Lawmakers Plan To Skip Benjamin Netanyahu Speech
At least five more black lawmakers said they would not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s congressional address. Politico reported Wednesday that these members of the Congressional Black Caucus would not be going to the March 3 speech. Three leading caucus members had already announced they would not attend. Bibi: If you have a problem…
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Breaking News White House Hit for ‘Random’ Claim on Paris Kosher Market Terror
The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern after two top Obama administration spokesmen parsed whether last month’s deadly attack in Paris was anti-Semitic. Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman, and Jen Psaki, his State Department counterpart, later clarified on social media that they believed the deadly Jan. 9 attack by Islamist terrorists on a kosher supermarket was…
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