(Click to enlarge image of Obama with Rabbis, White House 2013)
"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 | Ambassador to Israel
|
| 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 |