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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Breaking News Barack Obama Will Visit Stockholm Synagogue During Trip to Sweden
President Barack Obama is slated to visit the Great Synagogue of Stockholm during his visit to Sweden. Obama, who will arrive in the Swedish capital Wednesday on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, is en route to the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, Svenska Dagbladet reported Thursday. The U.S. embassy in Stockholm confirmed that the…
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Opinion Sequestration’s Jewish Toll
Lest you think that the thoughtless, cowardly attempt to reduce federal spending, known as sequestration, was nowhere near as bad as it sounded, listen to Nancy Volpert. She’s the director of public policy for the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, the oldest charity in L.A. and one of the largest, an organization dedicated to…
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Breaking News Syria Warns U.S. Military Action Will Inflame Entire Middle East
Syria warned the United States against any military action over a suspected chemical weapons attack in its civil war, saying it would “create a ball of fire that will inflame the Middle East”. President Bashar al-Assad’s closest ally Iran also said Washington should not cross the “red line” on Syria, where doctors said hundreds were…
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Breaking News Eliot Engel Urges Air Strikes on Syrian Forces After Chemical Attack
The top Democrat on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee urged President Barack Obama on Friday to order air strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government after the apparent gassing deaths of hundreds of civilians. Representative Eliot Engel cited Obama’s statement that the use of chemical weapons by Assad’s forces would cross a “red…
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Israel News Israel’s Alliance With Turkey on the Rocks Again
For a brief moment on March 22, relations between Turkey and Israel seemed to be getting on the right track. From a cabin near the tarmac in Ben Gurion Airport as he was preparing to return home after a successful trip to Israel, President Obama called Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Israeli Prime…
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News White House Condemns Turkish Prime Minister’s ‘Offensive’ Remarks About Israel
ISTANBUL – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan angered Ankara’s U.S. ally, as well as regional leaders in Egypt and Israel, by accusing Israel on Tuesday of helping overthrow Cairo’s Islamist president. The White House called the remarks “offensive”. Erdogan, who has become one of the fiercest critics of the Egyptian army’s removal of Mohamed Mursi,…
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Breaking News Daniel Kahneman and Gloria Steinem Win Presidential Medals of Freedom
Feminist Gloria Steinem and Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman were among some of the most famous figures in American sports, politics and music were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday by President Barack Obama. The award is the highest U.S. civilian honor and to mark the 50th anniversary of the medal, Obama chose to…
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Opinion Many Little Qaedas: How War on Terror Backfired
Boy, President Obama is really taking it on the chin over the latest Al Qaeda threat and the closing of those 19 embassies. On the right, he’s getting hammered by the likes of The Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens, the Washington Post’s Marc Thiessen, Long Island Republican Rep. Peter King and even the distinguished Bard…
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