Bibi Formally Requests Pollard Release
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote President Obama urging clemency for Jonathan Pollard.read more
View ArticleMixed Media: Does Obama Have A Jewish Problem?
Ari L. Goldman Special To The Jewish Week President Barack Obama stood before the United Nations General Assembly last week, backed up Israel’s position on Palestinian statehood and said that the...
View ArticleStalling Tactics
Tue, 04/10/2012 Editorial The leaders of Iran and Syria have learned the dirty little secret of dealing with an international community making demands them.In the case of Iran, the U.S. and other...
View ArticleJewish Groups Largely Applaud Health Care Ruling
Zach Silberman/JTA Supreme Court decision upholding Affordable Care Act seen putting the country ‘significantly forward on a moral path.’Washington — American Jewish groups — with the notable...
View ArticleObama And The Orthodox
Ari L. Goldman Special To The Jewish Week On Election Day, frum neighborhoods stood out among New York City’s handful of Republican precincts.There’s an old saw in American politics, usually...
View ArticlePublic And Private Mitzvahs
While New York cleaned up, the President visited. In the days after the city’s worst hurricane in history struck, as New Yorkers – along with affected residents of New Jersey and other reeling areas...
View ArticlePresident Obama And The Anxiety Of Ambivalence
Yehuda Kurtzer Special To The Jewish Week Which is worse for Israel’s security and for the volatile Middle East: a tyrannical Syrian regime in an unsteady alliance with a nuclear Iran, or an anarchic...
View ArticleObama Notes 'Thanksgivukah' In Holiday Greeting
JTA In his annual statement for Chanukah, President Obama pointed out how rare it is to have the holiday and Thanksgiving fall together.read more
View ArticlePollard Undergoes Surgery, Condition Called ‘Not Good’
JTA Jonathan Pollard, the American spy for Israel serving a life sentence in federal prison, was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery.read more
View ArticleAt Jewish Republicans Forum, Cheney Hits Party’s Isolationists
JTA WASHINGTON — Dick Cheney told Republican Jews that he was concerned about isolationism in the party.read more
View ArticleObama Calls For Worldwide Fight Against Anti-Semitism
JTA 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...
View ArticleObama Nominates Saperstein As Religious Freedom Ambassador
Steve Lipman Staff Writer President Obama announced today that he will nominate Rabbi David Saperstein, longtime director and counsel of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington, as...
View ArticleObama Signs Iron Dome Extra Funds Bill
JTA Washington — President Obama signed into law a bill allocating $225 million in additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.read more
View ArticleReading The Tealeaves At The UN
Uriel Heilman JTA Abbas attacks Israel, but Netanyahu’s mind elsewhere. In the end, there was much to talk about at the U.N. General Assembly but few genuine surprises.read more
View ArticleSlamming The Door To Peace
In a pair of dueling speeches at the United Nations, Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the door shut on future peace talks between two leaders who neither trust nor like each other. read more
View ArticleLapid Says He Won’t Help Fund Settlements
JTA Jerusalem — Israel’s finance minister, Yair Lapid, said he would not agree to invest funds in West Bank settlements.read more
View ArticleWhite House Says It Should Have Sent Higher-Level Representative To Paris Rally
JTA The White House acknowledged that it should have sent a higher-level representative to the anti-terrorism rally in Paris.read more
View ArticleRabbi Riskin Clarifies Remarks: Iran, Not Obama, Is Haman
Tel Aviv — Rabbi Shlomo Riskin reversed his comparison of President Barack Obama to Haman, saying instead that Iran is comparable to the Purim villain.read more
View ArticleWhy The Iran Deal Makes Sense
Edith Everett On Oct.2, 2002, President George W. Bush asked and received authorization from Congress to go to war with Iraq. Just one month before, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
View Article‘Hard To Be Hopeful About This Deal’
Michele Chabin Israel Correspondent Israelis fearful of Iran despite Obama’s reassurances. Jerusalem — In charge of her toddler granddaughter for the day, Grazia Mizrachi took advantage of a local...
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