Stuart Eizenstat

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Sep 9, 2023, 2:27 PM

The State of the Jews writ large

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As a senior US government official under Carter, I tried to synthesize policy in ways that strengthened the US-Israel relationship

Mar 26, 2022, 11:27 PM

The advice I gave Madeleine Albright when she found out she was Jewish

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (R) looks on as Stuart E. Eizenstat (L), Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, speaks 01 December during the opening plenary session of the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets at the US State Department in Washington, DC. The conference is addressing issues related to Nazi-confiscated assets, especially art and insurance. AFP PHOTO/Tim SLOAN (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

She was a great American public servant, a lifelong proponent of human rights, and a constant ally of Israel — but to me Madeleine was also a dear friend

Jan 27, 2022, 12:17 PM

Reparations, restitution and the price of forgetting

Survivors of Auschwitz arrive at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism at the former concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oswiecim, Poland, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

The work of compensating victims and memorializing the Holocaust becomes ever more urgent and daunting as the last eyewitnesses die out

Apr 13, 2021, 12:13 AM

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a solemn day in which we remember the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, along with millions of others who were victims of Nazi brutality who were murdered between...

Sep 21, 2016, 4:01 PM

No better friend than Hillary Clinton

The Democratic candidate is a staunch Israel supporter: she stands against terror, fights BDS, and helps survivors

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About Me

During the Clinton administration, Stuart E. Eizenstat was the US ambassador to the European Union, undersecretary of commerce and of state, deputy secretary of the Treasury, and special representative of the president on Holocaust issues. During the Carter administration, he was the president’s White House chief domestic policy adviser. He co-chairs the Jewish People Policy Institute’s (JPPI) board of directors. He is now the special advisor to the US administration on Holocaust issues.