This is the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Barack Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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News Rise of Latino Voters Is Wake-Up Call for Jews
America’s new political demography, as exposed by the 2012 presidential election results, has delivered a wake-up call to Jewish communal leaders. The rise in power of Latino voters, coupled with the continued increase in African-American participation and the greater attention paid to women voters, is compelling some Jewish leaders and analysts to reexamine communal coalition…
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Fast Forward Iran Poised To Hike Nuclear Capacity: U.N.
Iran is set to sharply expand its uranium enrichment in an underground site after installing all the centrifuges it was built for, a U.N. report said, a move that could increase Western alarm about Tehran’s nuclear course. It also showed that Iran’s stockpile of its most sensitive nuclear material – which could relatively quickly be…
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News Bracing for Cuts, Federations Hold Tongue on Taxes
Jewish federation leaders are bracing for substantial cuts in government funding for the social services their agencies provide as attention turns toward deficit reduction following the presidential election. Just how much will depend on the outcome of the post-election debate now unfolding on President Obama’s proposal to increase tax rates on the wealthy to help…
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Fast Forward Obama Backs Israel ‘Self-Defense’ in Calls
President Barack Obama spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday and reiterated U.S. support for Israel’s right to self-defense in light of rocket attacks from Gaza, the White House said. Obama spoke to the leaders about the rocket attacks being launched from Gaza into Israel and the escalating…
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Fast Forward Obama Plans Diplomatic Push on Iran Nukes
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that he will renew efforts for a diplomatic resolution to Iran’s suspected attempt to build a nuclear weapon, but denied that any talks with Tehran were imminent. Obama told a news conference that reports that emerged before his re-election on Nov. 6 of impending U.S. talks with Iran were…
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Opinion No (GOP) Sex on Tisha B’Av
With President Barack Obama’s reelection only a few days in the rear view mirror, the topic of the Jewish role in American politics is still brewing — and we learned some tantalizing details about Mitt Romney’s summer trip to Israel. Democratic and Republican operatives sparred over the importance of the Jewish vote in the just-completed…
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Fast Forward Angry Over Obama Win, Woman Runs Over Hubby
An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday. Holly Solomon, 28, was arrested after running over husband Daniel Solomon following a wild chase that left…
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Books Reports of Obama-Wiesel Book Deal Shot Down
Don’t be rushing to your local bookstore or fumbling with your Kindle to download the new book that Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was said to have been writing along with his buddy President Barack Obama. The two are still BFF’s. But it turns out something must’ve gotten lost in the translation about the book thing….
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Fast Forward At least 5 countries have said they will or could boycott Eurovision if Israel is included
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Opinion ‘A long record of failure’: Is it time to put the two-state solution to rest?
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