Why Jews Need to Rethink Our Criticisms of Jimmy Carter
“It has never been quite clear to me why Carter arouses such an antipathetic response among American Jews,” Leonard “Leibel” Fein wrote after interviewing Jimmy Carter in 1984.
“It has never been quite clear to me why Carter arouses such an antipathetic response among American Jews,” Leonard “Leibel” Fein wrote after interviewing Jimmy Carter in 1984.
It’s time for the Jewish community to acknowledge the good that came from Carter’s presidency.
Four years after his presidency ended, Moment spoke to Jimmy Carter about Camp David, American Jews, human rights and more.
Moment co-founder Leonard Fein interviewed Jimmy Carter in 1984.
President Carter, who was considered both an outsider and an outlier, dealt with many issues the United States is still dealing with today: healthcare, racism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Kai Bird is in conversation about his new book The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter with former CBS News correspondent Dan Raviv