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Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president.

Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president.

Jewish Ledger Holocaust survivor Roman Kent negotiated billions in restitution By Andrew Silo-Carroll (JTA) – Roman Kent, a Lodz Ghetto survivor who would negotiate with the postwar German government for billions of dollars in compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors, died Friday, May 21, at his home in New York City. He was 92. Kent, who immigrated to the United States in 1946, was a longtime board member of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, ...

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. The book is part of a slate of recent works, including Carter presidential aide Stuart Eizenstat’s President Carter: The White House Years (2018) and journalist and historian Jonathan Alter’s His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life (2020) that have attempted to not only decode Carter but also demonstrate that he was a far more accomplished president than is generally thought. The standard view of Carter’s presidency is familiar: a goo...

Auschwitz and Lodz Ghetto survivor who worked tirelessly to get compensation for Jewish victims of the Nazis, dies in New York

A former Justice Department official takes issue with an Opinion guest essay. Also: A voting guide to New York City elections; race and reconciliation.

>> Steven R Weisman, The New York Times Published: 20 Apr 2021 09:07 AM BdST Updated: 20 Apr 2021 09:07 AM BdST Former Vice President Walter Mondale during and interview on Dec 12, 1983. The New York Times Walter F Mondale, the former vice president and champion of liberal politics, activist government and civil rights who ran as the Democratic candidate for president in 1984, losing to President Ronald Reagan in a landslide, died on Monday at his home in Minneapolis. He was 93. "); } Kathy ...

Names being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor   April 16, 2021 WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nancy Kaufman, the former CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, said this week that she had been in touch with the Biden administration about becoming this country’s newly empowered anti-Semitism monitor. Kaufman revealed her contact in the Forward in a story about how progressive Jewish groups appear to be coalescing around her candidacy. She confirmed it on Wednesday to the Jewish Teleg...

Jewish Ledger These names are being talked about to be the US antisemitism monitor By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nancy Kaufman, the former CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, said this week that she had been in touch with the Biden administration about becoming this country’s newly empowered antisemitism monitor. Kaufman revealed her contact in the Forward in a story about how progressive Jewish groups appear to be coalescing around her candidacy. She ...

These names are being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor April 7, 2021 5:34 pm Nancy Kaufman, seen in January 2019, said a number of people outside the Biden administration urged her to apply for the monitors post, so she made her interest known to people inside the administration. (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) Advertisement WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nancy Kaufman, the former CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, said this week that she had been in touc...