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The Anti-Anti-Semite

Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department's new anti-Semitism envoy, discusses her plans, Israel, and Abe Foxman
By Allison Hoffman | 3:06 PM Nov 20, 2009

Hannah Rosenthal, the former head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, will start work Monday as the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. The position was created by Congress in 2004. Rosenthal, the 58-year-old daughter of a rabbi who survived the Holocaust, is a former seminarian—in the 1970s, she dropped out ...

Daybreak: Mixed Messages

Obama in Cairo, and more from the morning papers.
By Hadara Graubart | 12:16 PM Jun 4, 2009

• President Obama gave his big-deal Cairo speech this morning, in which he reiterated his support for Israel and for a two-state solution. But he also said that the United States “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.” [WP]
• But don’t think that was a demand. The White House emailed the Jewish Council ...