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...said, 'The United States and Israel were very, very close for eight years, and it produced very little,' " Anti-Defamation League president Abraham Foxman told the Los Angeles Times. In order to generate momentum toward a solution, Obama explained, the U.S. was pressuring Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab states to make concessions...
...Foxman was reportedly not convinced, and some others at the meeting expressed reservations afterward. Some, however, were reportedly more inclined to give Obama's approach a chance to work, and the President's approach was enthusiastically backed by J-Street, a new Jewish-American lobby group that ties support for Israel to the pursuit of peace. The presence of J-Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami at the White House meeting was one more change to digest for such stalwarts of the Jewish-American establishment as Foxman and Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American...
...center of gravity moves southward, he may also be one of the last European Popes, and Jewish relations tend to be low on the radar of African and South American bishops. (One of the latter recently said the Jews own the media.) When Benedict is gone, says Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, "not only may Judaism be off the agenda--it may face opposition. There's a clumsiness to how Benedict has dealt with some of these issues, and we really hope he fixes them while he's still here. Because the next guy may not be fixing...
...fact is, American policy in the Middle East hasn't been even-handed-it has been supportive of Israel when it felt Israel needed critical U.S. support. So I'm concerned. I'm not sure the situation requires that kind of approach in the Middle East." - Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League. The Jewish Week...
...gospel passage the Pope has chosen is the verse from the Gospel of John including Jesus' offering to his disciples, "peace be with you." But that sentence begins, "On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked ... for fear of the Jews." Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League says he hopes the Pope is able to excise those words. However, the Pope clearly wants to speak about peace and this is the Gospels' most powerful reference to it. Priests do not usually edit within the biblical sentence of a gospel reading...