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Topic: Malcolm Hoenlein

March 23, 2013
12:55 am

A delegation of the Council for a Secure America meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month in Jerusalem. (Admon HaCohen, Courtesy of the Council for a Secure America via JTA)

US Jews weigh oil vs. environment in Mideast policy

A new alliance between Israel advocates and energy companies raises questions about how to weaken reliance on foreign suppliers

By Ron Kampeas

March 22, 2013
4:48 am

Rabbi Herschel Schachter conducts services for Holocaust survivors on the Jewish festival of Shavuot, in the Buchenwald concentration camp, May 16, 1945. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

First rabbi to enter liberated Buchenwald dies

Herschel Schachter, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents, was 95

By Joe Winkler

February 17, 2013
3:06 pm

Malcolm Hoenlein (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Jewish leader raps US for taking aircraft carrier out of Gulf

Iran could see move as ‘a diminution’ of the American commitment to keep all options on the table, warns Malcolm Hoenlein in an unusually robust critique

By David Horovitz

February 11, 2013
6:29 pm

President Shimon Peres during a meeting with The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on February 11, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Peres tells US Jewish leaders Obama will deal with Iran

Fatah official says no chance of a three-way summit during president’s visit

By Stuart Winer

January 28, 2013
11:16 pm

White House Chief of Staff Jacob “Jack” Lew, left, and Jarrod Bernstein, White House Director of Jewish Outreach, speak to the media at the offices of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Jewish Community Relations Council, David Karp)

Outgoing White House Jewish liaison gets kudos

Jarrod Bernstein was ‘outstanding’ and enjoyed ‘tremendous access within the White House,’ say Jewish leaders who worked with him

By Haviv Rettig Gur

December 9, 2012
3:50 am

As the American ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice delivered an ardent defense of Israel during the IDF's November operation against Hamas. (Paulo Filgueiras/UN via JTA)

Potential secretary of state a seasoned fighter for Israel

Considered the favorite to replace Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice has largely won over US Jewish groups with her advocacy at the UN

By Ron Kampeas

November 16, 2012
8:21 am

A Bible covered with debris in a Kiryat Malachi apartment in which three people were killed from a rocket attack on Thursday (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

American Jews keep wary eye on situation in Gaza, examine their own security precautions

Support pours in from US Jewish groups as they prepare to help Israelis hurt or displaced by the recent escalation

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 21, 2012
7:45 pm

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon speaks at a conference about the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab countries earlier this month in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon / FLASH90)

Israel urges Ban Ki-moon to place plight of post-1948 Jewish refugees on UN agenda

New campaign to highlight Jewish suffering, in part as counter to Palestinian refugee demands, gains momentum at UN HQ meet

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 7, 2012
11:58 pm

Centre Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. (photo credit: CC BY Kumar Appaiah, Wikimedia Commons)

American Jewish leaders call on world to follow Canada’s lead on Iran

Conference of Presidents, ADL leaders praise Ottawa for severing diplomatic relations with Tehran on Friday

By Ilan Ben Zion

August 11, 2012
4:57 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, meets with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at United Nations headquarters in 2009. (photo credit: AP/Jason DeCrow)

Jewish groups urge Ban to boycott Tehran summit

Echoing Netanyahu, B’nai B’rith and Conference of Presidents say participating in Non-Aligned Movement meeting will lend legitimacy to Iranian regime

June 29, 2012
5:31 am

Freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (photo credit: Jack Guez/Flash90)

Presidents Conference welcomes Gilad Shalit

Malcolm Hoenlein presents former captive soldier with thousands of letters written to him by American Jews during his five years in prison

April 19, 2012
10:56 am

Israeli soldiers stand below a monument as they attend a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, Wednesday (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

‘Never again’ is not enough

Our goal should be nothing less than for the next generation to see bearing witness not as a burden, but as a privilege, an honor, and yet another source of pride in who they are

By Joshua Hammerman

April 12, 2012
11:06 am

Presidents Conference leaders, URJ join Pollard plea

Letter sent to Obama on behalf of jailed spy

April 4, 2012
3:44 am

Neturei Karta activists wave a Palestinian flag as they burn the Israeli flag in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Purim last year. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Conference of Presidents: Time to cut off Neturei Karta

US Jewish leaders call on community to ‘denounce and disassociate from’ fringe anti-Zionist sect

By Ron Friedman

February 22, 2012
9:54 am

Alan and Judy Gross at the Western Wall in the spring of 2005. (Courtesy of the Gross family)

Alan Gross, jailed for providing Internet to Cuba’s Jews, not going anywhere soon

An Associated Press report earlier this month has exacerbated concerns that Cuba will hang tough on its stated determination not to release Gross

By Ron Kampeas

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