Focus on Domestic Issues at Transition Team’s Meeting With Jewish Leaders By Nathan Guttman The Jewish Daily ForwardFri. Dec 19, 2008 Washington — In their first meeting with Jewish leaders Thursday, the Obama transition team proved that change is indeed on its way. For the first time in years, a full spectrum of Jewish groups […]

When Diane met Mort By Ron Kampeas –  December 19, 2008 President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team’s first official encounter with the Jewish community suggested a substantial change in how his administration will deal with Jewish groups: Present were the array of dovish pro-Israel groups, including the Israel Policy Forum, J-Street, Americans for Peace Now and […]

    By Marc PerelmanThu. Dec 11, 2008     While major Jewish groups have publicly condemned the violence perpetrated by West Bank settlers against Israeli security forces and Palestinians in Hebron this month, the main voice of American Jewry has remained silent. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella body […]

      Douglas Bloomfield writes darkly that “Israelis [must] find a balance between domestic and international interests when they go to the polls on Feb. 10” (“Could U.S., Israel be on collision course?” WJW, Nov. 20). Translation: Israelis must elect the person who can better appease an American administration keen on proceeding with Israeli […]

    by Morton A. Klein Gary Rosenblatt writes that the alternative to negotiating a “two-state solution” is “a Jewish minority in Israel and the end of a Jewish state as we know it” (“What Obama Needs From Us,” Between The Lines, Nov. 4). Untrue. Most Palestinians (98 percent) live today in territories under Palestinian […]

Friday November 14, 2008   Zionist leader worries Obama is bad for Israel by Dan Pinestaff writer Just after Barack Obama won the presidency, thousands of jubilant Americans poured into the streets. Morton Klein was not one of them. The president of the Zionist Organization of America worries an Obama presidency will spell trouble for […]

    By Julie Stahl Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – Israel is upset over Egyptian military exercises in which the simulated “enemy” is Israel, and some are calling on the U.S. to reconsider its aid to Egypt because of it. Israel and Egypt – two U.S. regional allies – signed a U.S.-sponsored peace treaty in 1979 – Israel’s […]

          by Morton A. Klein In “Thanks To Olmert, Mideast ‘Solutions’ Come Full Circle” (Between The Lines, Oct. 10), Gary Rosenblatt observes that “Olmert is still the prime minister and has the legal right to continue to pursue talks with Syria and continue negotiations with the Palestinians.” In democracies, caretaker prime […]

      Letters  Wed. Oct 08, 2008 Learn Some Lessons From Gaza Withdrawal The Forward takes the convenient view that, since it agrees with Ehud Olmert’s current policy to retreat entirely from Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem and create a Palestinian state, Olmert is right to pursue this policy even though he has resigned. […]

  Who Was There And Who Wasn’t? by Stewart AinStaff Writer 09/24/2008 They wore buttons at Monday’s rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that bore his picture with the words “Not Welcome” beneath it. Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel was equally blunt, telling thousands of protesters in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza outside the United Nations that he […]