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"Obama said that the US reaffirms the 'friendships and bonds that keep us strong, including our unshakeable alliance with the State of Israel.'" (The JPost 09/23/2014)

 

 

Obama Talks Islamic State, Syria With US Rabbis
The Times Of Israel (Jewish News Service)
September 23, 2014 


WASHINGTON — The Middle East led the agenda Monday afternoon when US President Barack Obama held his annual pre-Rosh Hashanah conference call with close to one thousand rabbis from America’s Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist communities.

The pre-Rosh Hashanah conference call is seen by administration officials as an opportunity to send critical messages out to rabbis days before they direct sermons to packed synagogues during the High Holy Days. (Read here blasphemous Hebrew Superstition. -ED of TCW)

Rabbi William Gershon, president of the Rabbinical Assembly said following the call: "It is gratifying to hear the kind of thinking ... and support that the president put forward... ."

 Jews in the Barack Obama Administration

(Updated March 2014)

Current Members


Tony Blinken

Deputy National Security Advisor

Danielle Borrin

Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Deputy Director of Public Engagement

Gary Gensler

Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Jonathan Greenblatt

Special Assistant to the President and Director, Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (Domestic Policy Council)

Jack Lew

Secretary of the Treasury

Eric Lynn

Middle East Policy Adviser

Matt Nosanchuk

Associate Director, Office of Public Engagement for Jewish Outreach

David Plouffe

Senior Advisor to the President

Daniel Rubenstein

Ambassador to Syria

Dan Shapiro

Gene Spirling

Director, National Economic Council

Aviva Sufian

Special Envoy

Adam Szubin

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control (Treasury)

Janet Yellen

Chairwoman, Federal Reserve

Former Members


Ben Bernanke (2006-13)

Chairman, Federal Reserve

Mary Schapiro (2009-12)

Chairwoman, Securities and Exchange Commission

Steven Simon (2009-2012)

Senior Director, Middle East/North Africa, National Security Council

Rahm Emanuel (2009-10)

Chief of Staff to the President

David Axelrod (2009-11)

Senior Advisor to the President

Elena Kagan (2009-2010)

Solicitor General of the United States

Peter Orszag (2009-2010)

Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Lawrence Summers (09-11)

Director National Economic Council

Mona Sutphen (09-11)

Deputy White House Chief of Staff

James B. Steinberg (09-11)

Deputy Secretary of State

Dennis Ross (2009-2011 )

Special Assistant to the President

Ronald Klain (2009-2011)

Chief of Staff to the Vice President

Jared Bernstein (09-11)

Chief Economist/Economic Policy Advisor to the Vice President

Susan Sher (2009-2011)

Chief of Staff to the First Lady

Alice Rivlin

Member, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility & Reform

Lee Feinstein (2009)

Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor

Mara Rudman (2009)

Foreign Policy Advisor

Sep. 23, 2014

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PAPAL RESTORATION STAFF MEMBER 08.04.2017 14:12

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PAPAL RESTORATION STAFF MEMBER 07.04.2017 06:35

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PAPAL RESTORATION STAFF MEMBER 28.10.2016 16:47

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