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Culture On Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday, assessing the 39th president’s record on the Jews
Despite some questionable statements, Carter accomplished much for the Jewish people
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News Jimmy Carter built strong bridges to American Jews — and tested their patience
The evangelical president felt a kinship with Jews, but at times angered them with his outreach to Israel's adversaries in the Middle East
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Opinion I was wrong about Israel. I apologized. Then President Carter gave me a lesson in grace
Carter owed me nothing, yet gave me a sense there is a capacity within us all for unconditional love
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Opinion I worked for Jimmy Carter at the White House. He should be remembered as a champion of the Jewish people
Peace in the Middle East and memorializing the Holocaust were two of Carter's top priorities as president
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Community Remembering The Positive Changes President Carter Made For Israel — And American Jews
September 17 marked the 40th anniversary of President Jimmy Carter’s singular achievement — the Camp David Accords. The Accords established the framework of the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty, which the parties signed six months later. In return for Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordering Israeli withdrawal — including settlements — from the entire Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian President…
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Fast Forward Jimmy Carter Says His Mideast Peace Push Drove Evangelicals To GOP
Ex-President Jimmy Carter says his push for Middle East Peace played an important role in turning the evangelical voting bloc into the arms of the Republican Party. Carter told the Associated Press, that he, “took a position of wanting to see balance between Israel and the Palestinians.” Carter wasn’t able to bring about a final…
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Opinion Why Zbigniew Brzezinski Choked Up In Israel
In the spring of 1976, the Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter appointed Zbigniew Brzezinski (March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), who was teaching at Columbia University, as his foreign policy adviser. I served at that time as the director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, and I knew that Brzezinski had never visited Israel, so I…
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