Jewish Telegraphic Agency Article RatingJack Lew, Orthodox Jew who led US Treasury, is Biden's pick for Israel ambassador - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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| "As OMB director under Obama, before he became the president's chief of staff, he stood firm on protecting entitlement programs -- Obama's top priority -- during talks with Republicans in 2011." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "He oversaw the enforcement of sanctions that helped bring Iran to the negotiating table and used his knowledge of the deal's particulars -- as well as his intimate knowledge of the Jewish community -- to pitch the deal to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, and others who were deeply skeptical." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "I think Israel is safer today than it was before the deal when Iran was genuinely approaching having a nuclear weapon.His continued defense of the agreement especially irks Klein's ZOA, which accuses him of shilling for the deal." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "As a father who is at home and has dier with his girls, he values that Shabbat is my time being with my family, Lew said then." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "Stumping for Obama's reelection in 2012, Lew told JTA that the president earned his loyalty in part by respecting his faith." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "Stumping for Obama's reelection in 2012, Lew told JTA that the president earned his loyalty in part by respecting his faith." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "Here's what you need to know about Lew, his career so far and the challenges he could face in the ambassador role." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "William Daroff, the CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said Lew's helpfulness to the Jewish community straddled multiple disciplines and that he was always very attentive to the Jewish communal agenda." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Maybe most importantly, as the son of a Polish immigrant, a man of deep and devout faith, Jack knows that every number on a page, every dollar we budget, every decision we make has to be an expression of who we wish to be as a nation, our values, Obama said." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Maybe most importantly, as the son of a Polish immigrant, a man of deep and devout faith, Jack knows that every number on a page, every dollar we budget, every decision we make has to be an expression of who we wish to be as a nation, our values, Obama said." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "As OMB director under Obama, before he became the president's chief of staff, he stood firm on protecting entitlement programs -- Obama's top priority -- during talks with Republicans in 2011." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "As OMB director under Obama, before he became the president's chief of staff, he stood firm on protecting entitlement programs -- Obama's top priority -- during talks with Republicans in 2011." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "As ambassador to Israel, Lew could use that experience in making a Saudi-Israel deal happen." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Lew, who also served as Obama's chief of staff before leading the Treasury Department, has drawn words of support from Jewish leaders in Washington who pointed to his experience in public office, his skills as a negotiator, his involvement in Jewish life and his close relationship with Jewish organizations." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "A favorite story about Lew's Judaism involves his walk home from synagogue on Shabbat when he was Clinton's OMB director, hearing the phone ring and letting it click through to the answering machine -- only to hear a staffer for Clinton, who was in another time zone, relay the president's apology." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "A favorite story about Lew's Judaism involves his walk home from synagogue on Shabbat when he was Clinton's OMB director, hearing the phone ring and letting it click through to the answering machine -- only to hear a staffer for Clinton, who was in another time zone, relay the president's apology." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "A favorite story about Lew's Judaism involves his walk home from synagogue on Shabbat when he was Clinton's OMB director, hearing the phone ring and letting it click through to the answering machine -- only to hear a staffer for Clinton, who was in another time zone, relay the president's apology." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Under President Barack Obama, Jack Lew gained praise for fulfilling both his duties as secretary of the treasury and his obligations as an Orthodox Jew." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Under President Barack Obama, Jack Lew gained praise for fulfilling both his duties as secretary of the treasury and his obligations as an Orthodox Jew." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Lew was furious with Republicans for what he believed was their lack of respect for the president, and in turn, earned the scorn of Republicans who called him the man who can't get to yes.Biden, who grew close to Lew during Obama's second term -- when Biden was vice president and Lew was Treasury secretary -- could expect the same loyalty." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Lew was furious with Republicans for what he believed was their lack of respect for the president, and in turn, earned the scorn of Republicans who called him the man who can't get to yes.Biden, who grew close to Lew during Obama's second term -- when Biden was vice president and Lew was Treasury secretary -- could expect the same loyalty." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Lew was furious with Republicans for what he believed was their lack of respect for the president, and in turn, earned the scorn of Republicans who called him the man who can't get to yes.Biden, who grew close to Lew during Obama's second term -- when Biden was vice president and Lew was Treasury secretary -- could expect the same loyalty." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Lew was furious with Republicans for what he believed was their lack of respect for the president, and in turn, earned the scorn of Republicans who called him the man who can't get to yes.Biden, who grew close to Lew during Obama's second term -- when Biden was vice president and Lew was Treasury secretary -- could expect the same loyalty." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Lew was furious with Republicans for what he believed was their lack of respect for the president, and in turn, earned the scorn of Republicans who called him the man who can't get to yes.Biden, who grew close to Lew during Obama's second term -- when Biden was vice president and Lew was Treasury secretary -- could expect the same loyalty." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Lew was furious with Republicans for what he believed was their lack of respect for the president, and in turn, earned the scorn of Republicans who called him the man who can't get to yes.Biden, who grew close to Lew during Obama's second term -- when Biden was vice president and Lew was Treasury secretary -- could expect the same loyalty." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "You can practice your faith openly, but don't ever take it for granted, he said in 2019 at a New York forum with Lieberman." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Now, President Joe Biden is asking Lew to complete a challenge that could be even harder: helping establish diplomatic ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Now, President Joe Biden is asking Lew to complete a challenge that could be even harder: helping establish diplomatic ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "At the 2017 Columbia University conference, Lew said he understood the rationale behind the decision not to veto." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Obama, nominating Lew in 2013 to be Treasury secretary, said he was drawn to Lew in part because of his faith." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Obama, nominating Lew in 2013 to be Treasury secretary, said he was drawn to Lew in part because of his faith." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Obama, nominating Lew in 2013 to be Treasury secretary, said he was drawn to Lew in part because of his faith." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Alongside those issues, the Biden administration is pursuing an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia that, if reached, would mark a major foreign policy breakthrough in the region." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "He praised Lew for stanching funding to terrorists as treasury secretary, as well as for his efforts to aid Holocaust survivors or combat efforts to amend tax laws on charitable contributions." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "As described by Biden in July to New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, the deal would involve stemming Saudi Arabia's growing trade ties with China; a pledge that the United States will guarantee Saudi Arabia's security; and the establishment of a Saudi civilian nuclear program along with the sale of advanced weapons systems." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Also touted was Kathy Maing, the Democratic congresswoman from North Carolina who is a past president of the Jewish Federations of North America." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Lew earned a reputation for resolving complex negotiations during his two stints as director of the Office of Management and Budget, under Obama as well as President Bill Clinton." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Lew earned a reputation for resolving complex negotiations during his two stints as director of the Office of Management and Budget, under Obama as well as President Bill Clinton." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Lew rejoined that ruing the OMB was challenging enough." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The idea that somehow the Iran deal was not in Israel's interest is something I disagree with, Lew said in 2017 at a conference at Columbia University's Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "If he is confirmed, Lew will take up the post at a time of instability in Israel, which is contending with mass protests of the right-wing government's actions to weaken the Supreme Court, in addition to a surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Other names floated include Ted Deutch, the American Jewish Committee CEO who retired last year as a Florida Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Robert Wexler, the former Florida Democratic congressman who now leads the Center for Middle East Peace and who was a close contender with Nides for the post in 2021." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Other names floated include Ted Deutch, the American Jewish Committee CEO who retired last year as a Florida Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Robert Wexler, the former Florida Democratic congressman who now leads the Center for Middle East Peace and who was a close contender with Nides for the post in 2021." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Lew did not always see eye to eye with his Obama administration colleagues on Israel-related matters." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Troy said Mitt Romney would opt for shawarma." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But he has not been shy about it either, and in 2012, he stumped for Obama among Orthodox Jews and routinely briefed Orthodox Jewish groups about administration policies." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The talks succeeded: Clinton left office with a budget surplus." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "In the administration's final days in late 2016, Lew and Biden recommended vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning settlement building." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "In the administration's final days in late 2016, Lew and Biden recommended vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning settlement building." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "As Treasury secretary, Lew was tapped as Obama's point man to explain -- and defend -- the Iran nuclear deal in the Jewish community." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "As Treasury secretary, Lew was tapped as Obama's point man to explain -- and defend -- the Iran nuclear deal in the Jewish community." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Lew stuck to and trotted out every Obama administration line (and lie) to try to sell the Iran deal to the American-Jewish public, Klein wrote in his op-ed." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "As Lew's anticipated nomination neared, he also drew criticism from right-wing activists." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Unlike Joe Lieberman, the Jewish former senator from Coecticut who was the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2000, Lew has not placed his Orthodoxy front and center in his political identity." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Unlike Joe Lieberman, the Jewish former senator from Coecticut who was the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2000, Lew has not placed his Orthodoxy front and center in his political identity." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "A year after leaving office, and a year before President Donald Trump scuppered the deal, Lew was still defending it to a Jewish audience." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "A year after leaving office, and a year before President Donald Trump scuppered the deal, Lew was still defending it to a Jewish audience." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, wrote in a Jerusalem Post op-ed that Lew's appointment would be deeply concerning because of his involvement in what Klein calls the Obama administration's hostility to the Jewish state and the Jewish people." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, wrote in a Jerusalem Post op-ed that Lew's appointment would be deeply concerning because of his involvement in what Klein calls the Obama administration's hostility to the Jewish state and the Jewish people." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Obama administration officials, he said, used the abstention to leverage a less toxic resolution -- but he still regretted it." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "After an earlier call, Clinton realized he was disturbing Lew's Sabbath and wanted to say sorry." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Lew said Obama would happily eat either." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "Lew said Obama would happily eat either." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "As OMB director in the last two years of Clinton's presidency, Lew negotiated a balanced budget with the same Republican leadership that was seeking Clinton's ouster for the Monica Lewinsky scandal." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "As OMB director in the last two years of Clinton's presidency, Lew negotiated a balanced budget with the same Republican leadership that was seeking Clinton's ouster for the Monica Lewinsky scandal." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "As OMB director in the last two years of Clinton's presidency, Lew negotiated a balanced budget with the same Republican leadership that was seeking Clinton's ouster for the Monica Lewinsky scandal." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
57% : As OMB director under Obama, before he became the president's chief of staff, he stood firm on protecting entitlement programs -- Obama's top priority -- during talks with Republicans in 2011.48% : He oversaw the enforcement of sanctions that helped bring Iran to the negotiating table and used his knowledge of the deal's particulars -- as well as his intimate knowledge of the Jewish community -- to pitch the deal to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, and others who were deeply skeptical.
38% : "I think Israel is safer today than it was before the deal when Iran was genuinely approaching having a nuclear weapon."His continued defense of the agreement especially irks Klein's ZOA, which accuses him of "shilling" for the deal.
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