Creative tension on display as Obama assembles diverse foreign policy team.
Obama’s emerging foreign affairs team, which includes Brent Scowcroft, left, and could include Hillary Clinton and Gen. James Jones, brings a range of views, and a challenge for the new president, to the White House. getty images
by James D. Besser Washington Correspondent
A Barack Obama administration that some feared would move in lockstep with the Democratic left is showing early signs of taking a much more centrist tack — even as the president-elect assembles an inner circle with widely diverse views. - Read Story -
The controversy over a proposed eruv for observant Jews in Westhampton Beach, L.I., heated up this week when eruv opponents sent a letter to residents that the American Jewish Congress labeled “racist.”- Read Story -
Just back from Israel and reflecting on the Israel-diaspora relationship, and in particular the General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities, held in Jerusalem last week, I am thinking of how we Israeli and Americans keep missing each other.- Read Story -
