Harry Truman

Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Jews Harry Stein, City Journal. While Roosevelt was resisting calls to admit child refugees from Germany (and badmouthing Jews in private), his predecessor was out campaigning on behalf of European Jewry.

The Jewish Vote, Then and Now Rafael Medoff, Jewish Press. In early 1948, the Truman administration was retreating from the UN plan to create Israel—until Jewish voters in the Bronx defeated the Democrats’ candidate for congress.

Unbreakable Alliance? Giulio Meotti, Jerusalem Post. If Obama refuses to intervene to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, he won’t be the first U.S. president to leave Israel standing alone in its hour of need.