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 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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Fast Forward 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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The Schmooze Barack Obama Gets Cameo in Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Show About Nothing’
They didn’t leave the White House grounds and coffee was drunk in a staff dining room, but comedian Jerry Seinfeld took U.S. President Barack Obama out for short spin in the latest episode of his popular web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” In his latest pop culture venture, Obama filmed a special guest spot…
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The Schmooze President Obama to Appear on Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’
“Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” is getting a not-so-surprise twist. The New York Times that President Barack Obama will guest-star on Jerry Seinfeld’s web-series, in an episode set to land on December 30. The two will drive a blue 1963 Corvette Sting Ray split-window coupe around the White House driveway, before ending up in a…
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Fast Forward Obama at Haaretz Conference Pushes Peace, Justice for Palestinians
President Barack Obama, making a surprise address, told a Haaretz-sponsored conference in New York that Israelis and Palestinians must “exercise restraint.” “Inexcusable violence has taken too many lives — Israelis, Palestinians, Americans and others,” Obama said via teleconference on Sunday morning at HaaretzQ, the liberal Israeli newspaper’s event with the New Israel Fund. “I’ve been…
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Fast Forward Israeli President Brings the Cheer to White House Hanukkah Party
(JTA) — Reuven Rivlin toddles up the White House driveway. He is grinning as he shouts in Hebrew to a phalanx of local Israeli reporters shivering in the December chill: “If you must live in a Diaspora, live in this one!” Washington’s Hanukkah week has found an unlikely Santa Claus in Israel’s president: His workshop, where…
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Books Barack Obama’s Favorite Book of 2015 is by Lauren Groff
'Fates and Furies' gets his stamp of approval
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Fast Forward Obama Says Important To Push for Peace in Meeting With Israeli President Reuven Rivlin
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday it was important to try to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians even though the possibility seemed distant. Obama made his comments during a meeting in the Oval Office with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
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