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 Obama Endorses More Jewish Candidates As Elections Heat Up
Former president Barack Obama released a list of more than 200 endorsed candidates on Monday, including several Jewish candidates whose races could decide which party controls the House of Representatives. “Democratic candidates up and down the ticket, all across the country, make up a movement of citizens who are younger, more diverse, more female than…
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Fast Forward California GOP Candidate Ron Cohen Defends 9/11 Conspiracy Tweets
A Jewish Republican running to oust an incumbent Democratic congressman in Silicon Valley doubled down on several conspiratorial statements during a conversation with the Forward, including that Barack Obama’s children have different biological parents and that the 9/11 terror attacks were an inside job used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Cohen, who is endorsed…
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News Hate-Spewing Jewish GOP Donor Tweets RBG ‘Can’t Die Soon Enough’
You might think Steven Alembik would delete some of the more incendiary tweets in his feed after the Florida Republican donor caused a firestorm by using the ‘N-word’ about former President Barack Obama, enveloping the campaign of GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis in yet another racial controversy. You don’t know Steven Alembik. The in-your-face fan…
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Culture Trust #PlaidShirtGuy To End Trump’s Nightmare Reign
I was wondering if I was reading too much into the near-convergence of Sen. John McCain’s funeral; Labor Day, the traditional kickoff of the campaign season; and Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish holidays of repentance and renewal. But when I saw that Steve Bannon called the National Cathedral service “the High Holy Days”…
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Fast Forward Obama Endorses Jewish Democratic Candidates In Key Midterm Races
Former president Barack Obama formally entered the midterm fray, endorsing more than 80 candidates, including some Jewish contenders who are critical for Democrats’ hopes to retake Congress. Obama tweeted Wednesday afternoon that he was “proud to endorse such a wide and impressive array of Democratic candidates,” including Senate hopeful Jacky Rosen in Nevada and House…
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Fast Forward Obama Was Shocked By Map Showing Growth Of Israeli Settlements
As the Obama administration was nearing its end, senior State Department official Frank Lowenstein produced a map that showed large sections of West Bank territory off-limits to Palestinian development and filled with Jewish settlements, outposts and areas between them, the New Yorker reported. It was quite different than the other maps Obama seen, where the…
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Culture Philip Roth’s Legacy, In Their Words
Philip Roth passed away on May 22, 2018, aged 85. For his 85th birthday, on March 19, Talya Zax had collected the thoughts of writers and politicians about Roth’s astonishing achievements. They stand as testament to his work, even on this, sadder, milestone. -Editors In 1981, Philip Roth gave a now-famous description of his experience…
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Fast Forward Illinois Governor Candidate J.B. Pritzker Caught In Wiretap Recording Firestorm
A secret 2008 recording of a conversation between a scandal-plagued governor and a future candidate for that same office is roiling Illinois politics. The recording between then-governor Rod Blagojevich and major Democratic donor J.B. Pritzker, now running for his party’s nomination for governor, features a discussion of who Blagojevich should appoint to the U.S. Senate…
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