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Breaking News Obama Calls Shimon Peres To Wish Him Well After Heart Attack
JERUSALEM — U.S. President Barack Obama called former Israeli President Shimon Peres to wish him well after his recent heart attack. During their conversation, Obama thanked Peres for their long friendship, a statement from Peres’ office said. “I left hospital stronger than I entered,” Peres told Obama in praising his medical team at Sheba Medical…
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Breaking News Obama To Attend ‘Righteous Gentile’ Ceremony at Israeli Embassy
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will speak at a ceremony honoring Righteous Among the Nations at the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., a sign of warmed ties between Obama and Israel’s government. Obama’s appearance at the Jan. 27 ceremony, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and conducted together with Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial authority, is…
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Breaking News White House Team To Visit Israel for Defense Aid Talks
WASHINGTON — Members of the Obama administration’s national security team will travel to Israel next week to advance talks on a new U.S. defense assistance package to the country. “A U.S. delegation will be traveling to Jerusalem next week for the next round of talks,” a senior administration official said Wednesday in an e-mail to…
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Breaking News U.S. Slaps Ballistic Missile Sanctions on Iran After Prisoner Swap
WASHINGTON – The United States imposed sanctions on 11 companies and individuals for supplying Iran’s ballistic missile program in a move delayed by over two weeks so as not to endanger this weekend’s release of U.S. prisoners, sources familiar with the matter said. The U.S. Treasury Department said it had blacklisted the UAE-based Mabrooka Trading,…
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The Schmooze Bette Midler, Sandra Bernhard and 7 Other Jewish Celebs React to SOTU
Bette Midler weighs in on the State of the Union and the President. Jewish celebrities and other famous Tribe voices took to social media largely to praise President Barack Obama for what was his final State of the Union address. Some were overtly political; others funny; and some took aim at the Republican delivering the…
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Breaking News Obama Touts Iran Nuke Deal, International Cooperation, in His Last SOTU
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called on the United States to sustain a foreign policy that emphasized multilateralism after his presidency ends. Obama devoted a significant chunk of his final State of the Union speech Tuesday night to defending his insistence throughout his presidency on building alliances, although he said that he has been ready…
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Breaking News 4 Times Obama and Netanyahu Worked Together That Frontline Skipped
There’s a lot of social media buzz about the nearly 2-hour documentary, “Netanyahu at War,” which chronicles Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s career and then veers into his relationship with President Barack Obama. Allow me a mixed-generation metaphor — boomers and millennials — for my takeaway: The PBS documentary casts the Obama-Netanyahu relationship as a…
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Breaking News Gabby Giffords and Jewish Groups Back Barack Obama Push on Guns
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who nearly died in a horrific mass shooting five years ago, was front and center at the White House as President Barack Obama used his executive powers to tighten the nation’s gun laws Tuesday. Giffords, the first Jewish congresswoman from her home state of Arizona, received a standing ovation as she…
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