Barack Obama

Obama: It may be time for a peace process ‘pause’

President Obama said it may be time for a pause in Middle East peacemaking in the wake of a breakdown in Israel-Palestinian talks.

After his hunger strike, Alan Gross’ backers ramp up calls for U.S. action

Supporters of the imprisoned American subcontractor want the U.S. government to ‘do whatever it takes’ to win his freedom from Cuba.

State Dept. sees state bids to tie SNCF deals to reparations as ‘obstacle’

Bids by state legislatures to tie contracts with a French rail company to extracting Holocaust-era reparations “pose a serious obstacle” to achieving reparations, the State Department said.

Israel

Letter by families of terror victims calls for Pollard release

Politics

Cheney at Jewish Republicans forum hit party’s isolationists

Culture

A Jewish Barack Obama and an Arab Yitzhak Rabin

Politics

Obama backs incumbent Schatz in Hawaii’s Democratic senatorial race

United States

Obama renominates Bush appointee, Jewish educator, to broadcasting board

Culture

What should Pope Francis and Obama discuss? JCPA has a suggestion

United States

White House ‘disappointed’ by Saudi denial to Jerusalem Post scribe

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