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Lord Russell was a British mathematician and philosopher who also considered himself a liberal and… [More] a pacifist at various stages in his life. He notably described the Palestinians as innocent refugees and called Israel an occupying land “given by a foreign power” to the Jewish people for the creation of a new state. On January 31, 1970 Russell issued a statement condemning Israeli aggression in the Middle East and calling for Israeli withdrawal from the Israeli-occupied territories. This was Russell’s final political statement or act. It was read out at the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo in February 1970, the day after his death. [Less]
1904: Jacob Javits
Javits, considered a liberal Republican, served as United States Senator from New York from 1957 to… [More] 1981. Javits grew up to a Jewish family in a Lower East Side tenement in NYC. After World War II, he became the chief researcher for Jonah Goldstein’s unsuccessful 1945 bid for NYC mayor on the Republican-Liberal-Fusion ticket. Javits’s performance in Goldstein’s campaign encouraged the small Manhattan Republican party to nominate him as their candidate for the Upper West Side’s Twenty-first Congressional District seat during the heavily Republican year of 1946. Javits campaigned energetically and won the seat although the Republicans had not held the seat since 1923. He was a member of the freshman class of Senators, along with JFK and Nixon. [Less]
1930: Warren Rudman
Rudman, known as a moderate centrist, served as a Republican United States Senator from New Hampshire between… [More] 1980 and 1993. He is one of the few Jewish politicians elected in New Hampshire. US President Bill Clinton approached him to with a cabinet position of Treasury Secretary, but Rudman refused. After serving two terms in Congress, Rudman is now a co-chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a retired partner in the international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and previously sat on the board of directors of Raytheon, Collins & Aikman, Allied Waste Corporation, Boston Scientific and a number of funds in the Dreyfus Family of Funds. [Less]