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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/world/05prexy.html
Obama Tries to Mend Fences with American Jews
(New York Times) Helene Cooper - President Obama had lunch on Tuesday with Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, as part of an effort to mend fences with American Jews upset by the administration's stance against Israeli construction in East Jerusalem. The meeting came three weeks after Wiesel took out a full-page advertisement in U.S. newspapers criticizing the Obama administration for pressuring Prime Minister Netanyahu. The White House effort is part of an attempt to reach out to the Israeli public, as well as to the American Jewish community, administration officials said. Wiesel pronounced recent tensions between Washington and Israel to be over. "There were moments of tension," Wiesel said to reporters after the lunch. "The tension, I think, is gone."