WASHINGTON (JTA) -- President Obama rejected the notion of simply containing a nuclear Iran, saying in an interview that such a prospect was intolerable. "I think that the Israeli government recognizes that, as president of the United States, I don't...
WASHINGTON—There will be the speeches, and they will resound like an echo. And then there will be the talk. When President Barack Obama speaks on March 4 to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials will not warn the United States if they decide to attack Iran's nuclear infrastructure, the Associated Press reported, citing an unnamed U.S. intelligence official. The decision was passed on in a series of private,...
WASHINGTON -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is traveling to Washington to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Leon Panetta, and other key U.S. security officials. Barak, who left Israel on Monday, is arriving just days before Israeli Prime Minister...
WASHINGTON -- Three of the four Republican presidential candidates said the United States should make a more explicit threat of military action against Iran. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich agreed in the CNN debate on Wednesday in Arizona...
WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich will address the AIPAC policy conference. The former U.S. House of Representatives speaker, who is trailing in the race for the Republican presidential nod, is the first in the GOP field to announce his participation. No date...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 22, 2012
The St. Louis branch of the American Jewish Committee is asking the Missouri Legislature in Jefferson City to send the Iranian government in Tehran a strong symbolic message. The AJC wants the legislature to pass a bill this spring that would ban companies...
WASHINGTON -- At least seven of the Obama campaign's 35 co-chairs are Jewish, including Alan Solow, a leading figure in the organized community. Solow is identified on the list released early Wednesday morning as both a partner at the DLA Piper law firm...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will address the annual AIPAC policy conference. Obama will address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference on March 4, his spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday. The address comes a day before Obama's meeting...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet early next month. A meeting was expected, as Netanyahu is set to be in Washington to address the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
WASHINGTON -- Jack Lew, President Obama's chief of staff, met with Jewish leaders in New York and fielded questions about differences with Israel. Lew, who is Jewish, met Feb. 17 with a group convened by the New York Jewish Community Relations Council...
Robert McFarlane, who served as National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan, has called on President Obama to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard. McFarlane wrote in a Feb. 9 letter to President Obama that an affidavit filled by then Secretary...
