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 U.S. Not Warned in Advance About Israel Strike on Syria
The United States was not given any warning before air strikes in Syria against what Western and Israeli officials say were weapons headed for Hezbollah militants, a U.S. intelligence official said on Sunday. Without confirming that Israel was behind the attacks, the intelligence official said that the United States was essentially told of the air…
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Fast Forward Tzipi Livni Rejects 1967 Borders as Pre-Condition to Peace Negotiations
Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, has reportedly refused to accept the 1967 border as the basis for a final Israeli-Palestinian border prior to negotiations. Livni told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday that Israel would not agree to the 1967 borders as a precondition of peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Maariv reported. Rather, she…
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News Why It Took Penny Pritzker 4 Years To Win Commerce Secretary Nomination
Penny Pritzker’s nomination as commerce secretary has been more than four years in the making. The 53-year-old Jewish hotel chain heiress from Chicago was rumored to be named to the post ever since Obama first took office, in 2009. While some see the pick as a slam-dunk — not only is Pritzker close to Obama,…
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Fast Forward Steven Spielberg’s ‘Obama’ Debuts at White House Roast
President Barack Obama poked fun at the media, his critics and himself on Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, a star-filled event where journalists and celebrities mixed with the Washington elite. He capped the speech by playing a taped piece with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg who did a spoof claiming his new…
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Culture The Tsarnaev Brothers Are Many Things. But Cowards? Not So Much.
“A heinous and cowardly act,” President Obama called the Boston Marathon bombing soon after its occurrence. Heinous, it certainly was. But why cowardly? To do what the two Tsarnaev brothers did —construct and transport homemade bombs that could have gone off in their hands at any moment, fling them out the windows of a speeding…
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Fast Forward Obama Taps Howard Shelanski To Be New White House Regulatory Czar
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he would pick Howard Shelanski, an antitrust expert, as his new regulatory czar, a powerful White House position charged with reviewing regulations proposed by government departments. Shelanski, who is both an economist and a lawyer, is currently in charge of a team of economists that reviews competition and…
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Fast Forward White House Needs Jewish Support in Fight To Ease Sequester Cuts
In the battle to end the across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration, it’s all hands on deck. Increasingly for the Obama administration, which is deadlocked over the budget with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, that means reaching out to Jews. In conference calls and in appearances at Jewish events, administration officials are soliciting Jewish support…
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The Schmooze EarthDay Wisdom From The Stars
Celebrities being the arbiters of good taste when it comes to good deeds and causes, they were out in hordes on the Twitter-sphere to remind us to reduce, recycle, and be better people on this 43rd annual Earth Day. #Earthday! Go plant a tree! clean up after yourself! Love the place u live in and…
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