This is the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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Opinion Trump Aide Blasts Obama Hanukkah Speech — Says Shabbat Better
What Team Trump don’t know about the Jews could apparently fill a scroll and then some. Last week, Donald Trump left Republican members of the Tribe flabbergasted by saying he doesn’t need their money. He also praised Jews as top-notch “negotiators.” Now, comes this: A top aide to the Republican frontrunner criticized President Barack for…
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News Meet Barack Obama’s Jewish Flack Catcher
It’s almost Hanukkah, and Matt Nosanchuk knows what to expect when his phone rings with a Brooklyn-area number on the screen. Almost for sure, it’s another Jewish community leader concerned about not having yet received an invitation to the White House’s annual Hanukkah reception. Navigating the jockeying among Jewish leaders for access to this seasonal…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Sends ‘Miracles Happen’ Hanukkah Greeting
President Barack Obama in Hanukkah greetings said the lesson of the holiday was “on the miracles that can happen even in our darkest hours.” “It renews our commitment as Americans — as people who live by faith and conscience — to lead the way and act as unyielding advocates for the fundamental dignity of every…
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Fast Forward President Obama Meets Gabby Giffords in Anti-Gun Push
President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday that federal investigators would find out what motivated a married couple in California to shoot and kill 14 people, and he asked Americans to stand united after the attacks. “We are strong. And we are resilient. And we will not be terrorized,” Obama said in his weekly address. Obama…
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Fast Forward President Obama Calls Ezra Schwartz’s Parents To Offer Condolences
President Barack Obama called the parents of Ezra Schwartz, the 18 year-old American student murdered last week in a Palestinian terror attack in the West Bank, to offer his condolences. In the telephone call Monday, the president said that Schwartz’s Israel studies had strengthen United States-Israel ties. “The president offered his profound condolences and condemned…
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Opinion Paris Attack Is a Game Changer — and Proves Just How Wrong We Were About ISIS
The most important thing to realize about the Paris terror attacks is that they’re a game-changer, in the most literal sense, in what we call the war on terror. They show us in a blinding flash of clarity that the campaign we’ve been pursuing has suddenly become something else. They force us to rethink each…
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Fast Forward Democratic Senators Push President Obama To Raise Aid to Israel
Democratic senators in a letter called on President Barack Obama to write a new and strengthened “Memorandum of Understanding” on security assistance to Israel. The 16 senators, led by Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Richard Blumenthal, D–Conn., and Ben Cardin, D-Md., — the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent the letter to the president…
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Israel News Benjamin Netanyahu Proclaims ‘One of Best’ Meetings After Businesslike White House Sitdown
Business as usual isn’t much to write home about, but sometimes it’s all one can hope for. For Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an eventless meeting with President Barack Obama is apparently the best news he had to show for after a tumultuous year in which their never-warm relationship hit the skids. “I didn’t feel…
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