This is the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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Fast Forward No Decision Yet on Attacking Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear to President Barak Obama during their meeting at the White House on Monday that Israel has not made any decision on attacking Iran to stop its nuclear program. Sources who were briefed on the meeting afterward said Obama and Netanyahu agreed to increase their coordination on Iran….
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Israel News Obama Says Still Time for Iran Diplomacy
Setting the stage for his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, President Obama stated America’s principles for dealing with Iran’s nuclear threat. In a speech at the largest ever gathering of pro-Israeli activists on Sunday, Obama made clear that the U.S. is willing to use its military force to stop Iran from…
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Opinion Obama to AIPAC: A Matter of Trust
President Barack Obama was more than half way through his address Sunday before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee before he mentioned the issue of the hour: Iran. That may well be because public officials tend to leave the thorniest subjects to later in their speeches. But it struck me as an apt metaphor for…
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News Presidents Conference, Israel Apartheid Week
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman about the odd collection of groups that make up the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Then, with Israel Apartheid Week in full swing, Forward fellow Naomi Zeveloff and David A.M. Wilensky, editor of New Voices, stop by to…
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Opinion Rick Santorum and the Jewish Vote
Pennsylvania, it’s sometimes said, can best be understood as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh separated by Alabama. Geographically speaking it’s a big state in the heart of the liberal Northeast, home to great universities, Ben Franklin and the Liberty Bell, anchored by a great Eastern metropolis at one end and a once-booming Midwestern steel town at the…
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Opinion Democrats Will Not Cede Israel to Republicans
The Democratic National Committee has a new commercial, called “The Facts,” that seems targeted at pro-Israel voters (I didn’t say “Jewish voters” for a reason). It reminds them that they shouldn’t listen to the mud being slung at Obama for supposedly abandoning the Jewish State. Republicans are called out for violating the tradition that holds…
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Opinion Romney Gains Edge in Testy GOP Debate
In a Republican primary debate marked by palpable tension between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, the two leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination were united on one issue: a hard line on Iran. They nodded agreement with one another as they laid out harsh critiques of President Obama’s policy, and promised a much tougher…
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Opinion Distrust Divides Bibi and Obama on Iran
As President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepare to meet in Washington March 5 to thrash out their Iran differences, observers everywhere are scrambling to sort out exactly what the two men disagree about and what can be done to bridge the gaps. The answers, surprisingly, are: not much — and not much….
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