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 Expresses ‘Deep Concern’ Over Three Missing Israeli Teenagers
President Obama expressed “deep concern” about three missing Israeli teenagers during a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres and American Jewish leaders. “They expressed their deep concern and reiterated our support for efforts to find the teens,” National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said of her boss, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and Obama after…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Wife Calls for Bowe Bergdahl-Style Prisoner Swap
The wife of Alan Gross visited her husband in a Cuban prison, then likened his plight to an American prisoner of war traded for five Taliban members. “If we can trade five members of the Taliban to bring home one American soldier, surely we can figure out a path forward to bring home one American…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Asks Uruguay To Help Free Alan Gross
President Barack Obama has sent an indirect message to Cuban President Raúl Castro through Uruguay’s leader, asking Cuba to release a jailed U.S. aid contractor and encouraging political reforms, U.S. officials said on Friday. It was a rare presidential-level communication between the United States and Cuba, which lack diplomatic relations and have been hostile neighbors…
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Opinion Stop Palestinian Aid Over Hamas? Not So Fast
Israel appears to be sending mixed signals to Washington on U.S. aid to the new Palestinian unity government. On one hand, the Netanyahu government wants everyone to know it’s furious over the new “reconciliation government” that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has formed with the reviled terrorist organization Hamas. Officials from Prime Minister Netanyahu to…
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News 13 Years Later, Jewish Children of 9/11 Come of Age
Next February, Jamie Pila, a hockey-playing middle school student with a mane of curly brown hair, will step up to the bimah at Temple Har Shalom in Warren, N.J. and become a bat mitzvah in front of her mother, sister, stepfather and two stepsiblings. Missing will be the biological father she never met. Her namesake,…
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Fast Forward Obama Extends Schwartz’s Stint on International Religious Freedom Commission
President Obama extended the appointment of Eric Schwartz, a dean at the University of Minnesota, to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Schwartz, who is on the boards of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, was among several appointees and nominees the White…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Demands Global Fight on Anti-Semitism
Recalling the horrors of the Holocaust, President Barack Obama urged nations to fight growing anti-Semitism and threats against Israel. Speaking Wednesday night to 1,200 supporters of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, Obama called for “confronting a rising tide of anti-Semitism around the world. “We see attacks on Jews in the streets of major…
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Opinion Watch: Obama Kills at Correspondents Dinner
President Obama was in rare form at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, delivering zingers at House Republican leaders, Fox News, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his own Obamacare troubles. His best line of the evening, the pundits seem to agree, was this one aimed at House Speaker John Boehner: I’m feeling…
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