Washington – Obama Said Close To Choosing Orthodox Jew Jack Lew For Treasury Secretary

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    White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew carries his bags as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on his way to depart the White House in Washington, D.C., USA, 30 September 2012, to accompany President Obama in his trip to Henderson, Nevada.  EPA/RON SACHS/POOLWashington – Sources close to the president have revealed that Mr. Obama is expected to select White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew as a successor to current Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, according to Bloomberg News (http://bloom.bg/WtOdEF).

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    Lew previously served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama, a position he also held in the Clinton administration. Lew’s potential nomination comes amid other personnel shake-ups as the president restructures his administration prior to beginning his second term in office.

    As previously reported on VIN, Lew is an Orthodox Jew. Asked how he balances his demanding work schedule and his religious lifestyle, Lew told the Forward (http://bit.ly/RiAgLT) that the president is particularly mindful of the time on Friday afternoons and respects him for adhering to his beliefs. “I saw the president on many occasions on Friday afternoons look at his watch, and ask: ‘Isn’t it time for you to get going?’” Mr. Lew said, “or, ‘Why are you still here?’”

    Although Lew does not regularly wear a kippah, he observes the kosher dietary laws and refrains from driving on shabbos. He is also a member of an Orthodox synagogue in Potomac, Maryland. If Lew is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, he will be the first Orthodox Jew to ever hold the post of Treasury secretary.

    Whoever ultimately becomes the next Treasury secretary will have their work cut out for them, as Congress grapples with raising the government’s staggering $16.4 trillion debt ceiling. Geithner has said he intends to leave his position by the close of January even if the debt ceiling issue has not been resolved.


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    Geulah
    Geulah
    11 years ago

    Actually Yosef HaTzadik was the first Observant (let’s get rid of Orthodox please) Jew to hold a head of Treasury post.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    11 years ago

    Not the best choice although he has excellent qualifications. The reason if the economy faills blame the Jews. Jews are being blamed sepcifically Zionist for the mass murder at the Connecticut school by a man named Harris

    11 years ago

    I am not paticularly happy to have a Yid as Treasury Secretary. It just gives the Goyim more ammunition to claim that the Jews control all the money in the U.S. We have enough anti-semitism without a Jew in this very sensitive position.

    Shimon
    Shimon
    11 years ago

    Clever of this sleazy administration to nominate an observant Jew to a significant cabinet post. They’ll be sure to play up his Jewishness to give them cover for Hagel and Brennan.
    We’ve got serious problems, yidden!

    RebKlemson
    RebKlemson
    11 years ago

    now we just need a jewish president to blame

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    11 years ago

    This would be the 2nd Jewish Secretary of Treasury after Morgenthau

    concerned_Jew
    concerned_Jew
    11 years ago

    He might be too good and get another dem elected after Mr. O. I don’t think it will be Joe B though, he is a bafoon and not electible as Pres. The current treasury sec is inept.

    ALLAN
    ALLAN
    11 years ago

    #2 happens to be correct that a man named Mike Harris is blaming the Jews for the Newtown CT mass murder. The man is an obvious Jew hater of the highest order and so filled with hate that he just needs to blame us. What I think of someone such as him cannot be printed here.

    scmaness
    scmaness
    11 years ago

    newton shooter wasn’t jewish,his father is through,so we see that yidden needs to marry another yid to complete there mission in life

    victorg
    victorg
    11 years ago

    I think Don Yitzchak Abarbanel was secretary of the treasury in Spain up until the Spanish Inquisition

    ExpatriateOwl
    ExpatriateOwl
    11 years ago

    Kzler (#12) says:

    “This would be the 2nd Jewish Secretary of Treasury after Morgenthau.”

    TheDoctor (#19) says:
    “Actually he would be the third after Morganthau and Blumenthal”

    Actually, there also was Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.

    And Blumenthal was a meshumed.

    But, regardless of how we count the Jewish Secretaries of the Treasury, Jack Lew’s assumption of the post would make him the Jew Hagel insists runs the banks.

    Reb Yid
    Reb Yid
    11 years ago

    Hey what kinda Jewish joke is Obama trying to pull here? A Jew for the Treasury? Come on, ya can’t make this stuff up. Where’s he gonna appoint a Jew to–Defense? Sports? Now, appoint a Jew to Commerce and Health, and you’re really on to something.

    BaruchGershom
    BaruchGershom
    11 years ago

    The Assistant Secretary of theTreasury for Policy in the George W. Bush administration was an observant Jew (he still is).

    xynnek
    xynnek
    11 years ago

    Lew two years ago testified … with straight face … that Obama budget would not add to national debt. Nothing but a marxist Obama hack.