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 President Obama Condemns Jerusalem Synagogue Terror Attack
President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the attack by two Palestinians on a synagogue in Jerusalem that killed four people, including three Americans, and called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to lower tensions and seek peace. “I strongly condemn today’s terrorist attack on worshipers at a synagogue in Jerusalem,” Obama said in a statement. “There…
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Forward 50 2014 David Saperstein
If partisan politics doesn’t interfere, Rabbi David Saperstein will be confirmed soon as the U.S. ambassador at large for international religious freedom. A lawyer and rabbi, Saperstein, 67, will be the first non-Christian to hold this position, which was created in 1998 and is entrusted with combating religious persecution and discrimination across the world. It…
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Israel News Mitt Romney Slams ‘Naive’ Barack Obama at Israeli-American Council Launch
(Haaretz) — The inaugural conference of the Israeli-American Council served as a platform for a blistering attack on President Barack Obama on Friday night, launched by his defeated rival in the 2012 elections, Republican Mitt Romney. The “naive” president, Romney said, “is weakening our military, distancing ourselves from allies, and being divisive and demeaning towards our…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama’s Secret Letter to Iran Leader
President Barack Obama wrote to Iran’s supreme leader to tell him that cooperation in confronting Sunni Islamist extremists hinged on a successful nuclear deal. The secret letter, revealed Thursday in a Wall Street Journal report, is the fourth such correspondence between Obama and Ali Khamenei since Obama assumed office in 2009. Iran and the United…
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The Schmooze Ben Stein Calls Obama ‘Most Racist President’ Ever
Anyone? Anyone? In a (sadly) non “Ferris Bueller”-related interview with Fox News, economist and author Ben Stein called President Obama the most racist president ever. “He is purposely trying to use race to divide America,” Stein told Fox news. Stein was on to discuss the main issue on voters’ minds today: the economy. A Fox…
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Fast Forward Chris Christie Slams Barack Obama Over Israel
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a likely contender for the Republican presidential nomination for 2016, accused President Obama of not standing by Israel. Obama had not stood “strong and hard for our allies in Israel,” Christie said during an event this weekend honoring Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, according to NJ.com, a news website for the…
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Opinion How Barack Obama Refuses To Learn From the Past
Today’s lesson is about the importance of learning from history. You know what they say: Those who don’t are doomed to repeat it and all that. What they never tell you is how important it is to learn the right lesson. Otherwise you’ll just follow your first mistake with a bigger one. That’s the part…
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Opinion Settlements, Snub Cause Latest U.S.-Israel Strain
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning a massive new wave of construction in the West Bank, according to a report Sunday night on Israel’s Channel 2 News. It’s part of a deal to calm his restive allies in the settler-backed Jewish Home party. The Channel 2 report has since been confirmed independently by Haaretz,…
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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Sports It’s so cool that Sandy Koufax was there for that
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News How Mamdani built bridges to Jewish New Yorkers, from Williamsburg to Park Slope
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Opinion The three profound Jewish lessons of Mamdani’s astonishing victory
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News Mamdani’s victory divides Jewish leaders one more way: Whether to say congratulations
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Fast Forward In a first, a ballot initiative to divest from Israel has won at the ballot box in Boston suburb
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Fast Forward In NJ governor’s race, Mikie Sherrill fends off GOP candidate whose aide spurned ‘money from Jews’
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