Obama Names New Chief of Staff with Strong Ties to Jewish Community

U.S. President Barack Obama named as his new chief of staff a security official, Denis McDonough, who has strong ties to the Jewish organizational community.

McDonough, until now the deputy to National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, handled much of the National Security Council’s Israel-related traffic and has strong ties with Jewish groups. He addressed the Washington Institute for Near East Policy just weeks before the last presidential election.

“Over the last four years, in speaking privately with me, and more publicly with Jewish Federation leaders, McDonough has steadfastly and vigorously defended the Administration’s Middle East policies,” William Daroff, the director of the Jewish Federations of North America’s Washington office, said in an email Saturday night to the Jewish Telegraph Agency.

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