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 Iran Jews Plead With Barack Obama To Grab Chance for Detente
The leader of Tehran’s Jewish community has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to take advantage of the “unrepeatable” opportunity to repair relations with Iran, AFP reported on Monday. “If the U.S. and the international community do not make the best of this golden and perhaps unrepeatable opportunity, then it will be in the benefit of…
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Opinion Take Debt Limit to Court. It’s Unconstitutional
Wait a minute: I still don’t understand why the idea of a debt ceiling is constitutional. The last I heard, the Fourteenth Amendment was still part of the Constitution. Here’s Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for…
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Fast Forward U.S. to Suspend Delivery of ‘Large Scale Military Systems’ to Egypt
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Obama administration is suspending delivery of some “large scale military systems” to Egypt but will maintain assistance that will help secure its border with Israel. “The United States continues to support a democratic transition and oppose violence as a means of resolving differences within Egypt,” said a statement released Wednesday evening…
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Fast Forward Janet Yellen Nominated To Lead Federal Reserve Bank, White House Says
President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen to be the next head of the U.S. central bank on Wednesday, a White House official said on Tuesday. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Yellen would replace Ben Bernanke, whose current term as head of the Fed ends in January. Obama is due…
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Fast Forward Jewish Republicans Sharply Divided Over the Government Shutdown
(JTA) —The first lawmaker to speak at a closed-door Capitol Hill confab convened by the Republican Jewish Coalition’s women’s affiliate was, naturally enough, a woman. So was the second. Against the background of the current federal budget battle, that’s about all that united Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). Ayotte has been…
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Fast Forward Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamanei Says Charm Offensive ‘Not Proper’
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday he supported moderate President Hassan Rouhani’s diplomatic initiative at the U.N. General Assembly last week but that some of what occurred there was “not proper”. In his first comments since Rouhani, committed to easing Iran’s international isolation, spoke by telephone with U.S. President Barack Obama, Khamenei…
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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu’s Warning on Iran Falls Flat
One of the Marx Brothers — I think it was Karl — once wrote that history has a way of repeating itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.” He forgot to mention how hard it is to tell which is which. Case in point: Benjamin Netanyahu’s whirlwind, two-day United States visit at the end of…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Tells U.N. Israel Is Ready to Stand Alone on Iran — And Is Left Alone
(JTA) — The “credible military threat” against Iran that Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to hear while he was in the United States this week eventually emerged — from his own lips. The Israeli prime minister, in a blunt speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, warned that Israel was ready to go it alone…
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