{"id":78203,"date":"2023-11-19T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=78203"},"modified":"2023-11-26T23:08:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T04:08:33","slug":"john-f-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/john-f-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"John F. Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"v2 ps2 s3 c2\"><strong>President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 60 years ago this week in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the son of Joseph Kennedy, Sr., a wealthy businessman and philanthropist. Joseph Kennedy was a known antisemite who, while he was serving as the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1938, told the German ambassador that President Roosevelt was the victim of \u201cJewish influence\u201d who was misinformed as to the \u201cphilosophy, ambitions and ideals of Hitler\u2019s regime.\u201d John F. Kennedy made many efforts to distance himself from his father\u2019s views, both prior to and while serving as President. Which of the following is an example of John F. Kennedy\u2019s positive connection to the Jewish community?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"v2 ps7 s8 c7\">\n<div id=\"attachment_78204\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/john-f.-kennedy-346.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78204\" class=\"wp-image-78204 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/john-f.-kennedy-346-231x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/john-f.-kennedy-346-231x300.webp 231w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/john-f.-kennedy-346.webp 346w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 231px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 231\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78204\" class=\"wp-image-78204 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/john-f.-kennedy-346-231x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/john-f.-kennedy-346-231x300.webp 231w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/john-f.-kennedy-346.webp 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-78204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/strong> <strong>John F. Kennedy, White House color photo portrait by Cecil Stoughton, White House&nbsp;is in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p3 f6\">A.<span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">President Kennedy instructed one of his advisors, Lewis Weinstein, to organize a conference on the issue of Soviet Jews, who were being oppressed under the Soviet regime. Sadly, the conference never happened as Weinstein was only asked to do this days before Kennedy\u2019s assassination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f8\">B.<span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">It is well known that Robert Frost was one of the speakers at President Kennedy\u2019s inauguration ceremony, the first time a poet participated in a presidential inauguration. It is less known that it was also the first inauguration in which a rabbi addressed the assembled, as President-elect Kennedy asked Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel to offer a benediction at the inauguration on January 20, 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f9\">C.<span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">In 1947, John F. Kennedy won his first election, as a Congressman from Massachusetts\u2019s 11th Congressional district. One of his first official acts was to co-sponsor a resolution supporting the United Nations partition plan for Palestine. At the time, Kennedy stated that \u201cthis is not a perfect plan, but it is the best plan to ensure the establishment of a Jewish state for survivors of the Nazi destruction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f10\">D.<span class=\"f11\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">In August 1962, John F. Kennedy became the first American President to sell a major weapons system to Israel. The United States sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel as part of a broader strategy of expanding the U.S. bilateral relationship with Israel, an ally of growing importance in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f12\">E.<span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">When Kennedy was running for president he campaigned in the Chassidic communities of Brooklyn. He appeared at a rally sponsored by followers of Rebbe Nachman, where at one stop he donned a yarmulke and uttered his famous line (later to be stated again in a slightly revised way), \u201cIch bin ein Breslover.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"f13\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rrrjewishtrivia.com\/answers-2023\/john-f-kennedy-answer.html\">Click here for the answer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"John%20F.%20Kennedy\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5841],"tags":[8790,8795,13471,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78207,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78203\/revisions\/78207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}