For Now, No Separate Jewish Liaison For Obama

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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Obama administration will not immediately hire a staffer to exclusively serve as White House Jewish liaison.

Tina Tchen, director of the White House public liaison office, said Susan Sher, an associate counsel to the president, and Danielle Borrin, a staffer in the vice president's office, would be assisting her with Jewish liaison duties. She spoke to United Jewish Communities leaders who were in Washington Wednesday to lobby for the economic stimulus bill.

Tchen told JTA that the decision was made because of budgetary constraints at the public liaison office. She said the plan was to eventually name a single staffer to deal with Jewish outreach. but she could not yet provide a timetable for when that would happen.

Like everyone in today's economy, she said, "we are all doing more with less," she said.

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JTA: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/04/1002780/for-now-no-separate-jewish-liaision-for-obama