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.
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.
Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s pick to become the next U.S. defense secretary, has begun calling critics in the Senate in an attempt to clarify his views about how to deal with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas before his upcoming nomination hearing. The decorated Vietnam veteran’s Republican credentials have done little to rally support with his…
President Barack Obama broke the mold on Thursday by choosing a budget wonk to serve as U.S. Treasury secretary, leaving gaps on the international and financial side that could make for a rocky transition. Jack Lew, Obama’s chief of staff, was chosen to lead the Treasury Department as the White House heads into another round…
You’ve seen it. President Obama has seen it. Now you get to try it out yourself. We at the Forward are proud to present the Jack Lew signature widget, which allows you to recreate the wonderful, amazing, crazy curlicues of the first Orthodox Jew to be nominated as treasury secretary. Go ahead, test it out…
Fortunately, clear cursive writing is not a prerequisite for promotion to the highest echelons of the U.S. government. President Barack Obama joked on Thursday that he considered taking back his offer to make White House chief of staff Jack Lew his next Treasury secretary after seeing – thanks to media reports – his loopy, illegible…
Jacob Lew helped Orthodox observance reach the highest precincts of governance. But can a man that Republicans say “can’t get to yes” be confirmed as secretary of the Treasury? President Obama nominated Lew, his chief of staff, to the post, replacing Timothy Geithner. Lew is well known in Washington circles, but in some ways he…
President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated his chief of staff, Jack Lew, as the next Treasury secretary, praising him as a expert on the pressing national issues of spending cuts and deficit reduction. Lew will succeed Timothy Geithner and take the lead on difficult negotiations with Congress on how to cut the nation’s massive debt…
President Barack Obama plans to announce his nomination of White House chief of staff and budget expert Jack Lew as his next Treasury secretary on Thursday at an event at 1:30 p.m. ET (1330 GMT), a White House official said. Lew, 57, will take the lead on difficult negotiations with Congress on how to cut…
The White House on Wednesday sees little profit in the notion of minting $1 trillion platinum coin as an escape hatch to avoid a debt default if Congress balks at raising the U.S. debt limit. With another standoff with Congress over raising the debt ceiling looming as early as mid-February, a petition on the White…
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