Obama to talk up Peace Process in Rosh Hashana call to US rabbis....

In conference call to 1,000 spiritual leaders across the religious spectrum, president aims to encourage support for talks in synagogue sermons..

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is set to make a pre-Rosh Hashana conference call to some 1,000 US rabbis in which he will discuss key issues of the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the hopes that the spiritual leaders will raise enthusiasm for those talks among their congregants in their High Holiday speeches...


Policy experts close to the administration told The Times of Israel that support for the negotiations would be a major part of what has become the traditional presidential Jewish New Year conference call to rabbis. They said the president would also touch upon domestic issues, including immigration and economic recovery. Rosh Hashana starts this year on the eve of September 4.


[link to www.timesofisrael.com]