Why is a treasury official even talking about that?
I don’t think he’s there as a Treasury official. He was Obama’s Chief of Staff before O got rid of almost all the Jews in the White House. Lew attends an orthodox synagogue, so O figured he might have some cred carrying a personal message to the J-Post attendees.
This is a race based administration. Israeli paper does a conference, Obama figures he has to send a Jew.