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July 14, 2009
At White House, U.S. Jews offer little resistance to Obama policy on settlements
Top Jewish organizational leaders expressed support for President Obama\’s Middle East peace strategies at a White House meeting but said the president must do a better job of showing he expects hard work from all sides, not just Israel.
Guest list: The Obama meeting
Sixteen leaders of 14 Jewish organizations took part in a Monday afternoon meeting at the White House with President Obama. Some of the groups not on the invite list, after having been invited to a larger meeting of Jewish leaders with Obama aides right before the inauguration, include Israel Policy Forum, the Zionist Organization of America, Brit Tzedek v\’Shalom and B\’nai B\’rith International. Below is the full list of participants:
Drean Hanley, Pillar of Historic L.A. Synagogue, Dies at 58
portion, as she’d done so many other Saturdays at Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock. Since Drean and her husband, Chris, had discovered L.A.’s second-oldest surviving synagogue, she had emerged as Beth Israel’s Saturday morning Kiddush maven, the warmest of greeters, the guiding force behind the temple’s charitable food drives and one of the pillars that kept the institution from collapsing during its most challenging years, when membership dwindled to a handful and the historic congregation had little to sustain it besides the tireless commitment of the likes of Drean and a handful of her fellow stalwarts.
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