Tagged President George H.W. Bush

George H.W. Bush, a president with a complicated Jewish legacy, dies at 94

President George H.W. Bush speaking in 1993. (Jewish Chronicle/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
December 3, 2018 / Ron Kampeas, JTA

WASHINGTON (JTA) – George H.W. Bush, the one-term president whose public grappling with Jewish leaders made headlines while his private interventions helped bring tens of thousands of Jews out of danger, has died. Bush, 94, died Friday at his home in Houston, his family said, less than a year after… Read more »

Ross to JFSA crowd: U.S.-Israel complexities go back 60 years

Dennis Ross speaks at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona “Together” event Nov. 18 at Congregation Anshei Israel. (Martha Lochert Photography)
December 3, 2015 / Nancy Ben-Asher Ozeri, Special to the AJP

“I was a political appointee for two Republican presidents and two Democratic presidents. … What that makes me is an extinct species,” Ambassador Dennis Ross told a crowd of more than 850 at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s “Together” campaign kickoff on Nov. 18 at Congregation Anshei Israel.… Read more »