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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 585

Jewish politicians

Crowds pressed against the window of Essen New York Deli in an attempt to catch a glimpse of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, April 24, 2025. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)
April 25, 2025, 8:36 pm
Ben Gvir joins friendly Thursday night cholent in Brooklyn after stirring the pot in NYC
Visiting a kosher deli for the pre-Shabbat tradition of late-night stew, the far-right Israeli minister encounters none of the simmering tension that greeted him in other venues
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Stuart Eizenstat poses for a photograph during an International Conference on Welfare for Holocaust Survivors in Prague, Czech Republic, May 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
April 5, 2025, 10:09 am
Jewish Camp David broker chronicles 50 years of world-changing negotiations
In ‘The Art of Diplomacy,’ longtime US negotiator Stuart Eizenstat draws on interviews with 130 global players to highlight the most important agreements of the last half-century
By Rich Tenorio
The son of Jewish parents who fled the Nazis for safe harbor in the United States, Sen. Ron Wyden shares lessons from 40-plus career in politics in a new memoir. (Grand Central Publishing via JTA)
February 6, 2025, 1:19 am
Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power
The senior Oregon legislator’s new memoir, ‘It Takes Chutzpah,’ draws on his Jewish background to explain his approach to life and governing
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Sara Funaro, then assessor of Florence, attends the Righteous Among The Nations award ceremony for Bisto and Stella Nepi, who saved a Jewish fugitive from fascists and Nazis during World War II, at Florence Synagogue on April 18, 2023. (Roberto Serra - Iguana Press/Getty Images/File)
December 18, 2024, 4:33 pm
Meet Sara Funaro, the first female – and first Jewish – mayor of Florence, Italy
Born to a Jewish father and Catholic mother, the incoming city head converted to Judaism in her 20s, does not make her religious identity a central part of her political one
By Rossella Tercatin
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 9, 2024. (Cliff Owen/AP)
December 5, 2024, 9:00 am
Chuck Schumer reelected head of US Senate Democrats, this time as minority leader
The Jewish lawmaker has a busy few weeks ahead of him, including getting Biden’s federal judge nominees approved, enshrining IHRA definition of antisemitism into law
By Ron Kampeas
Left to right: North Carolina Governor-elect Josh Stein, US Rep. Josh Gottheimer, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Hawaii Governor Josh Green hope to bring big Josh energy to statehouses. (Illustration by Joe Strauss/JTA)
November 25, 2024, 3:49 am
Joshmentum: Across the United States, voters are embracing the Jewish Josh
If Josh Gottheimer wins his race for NJ governor next year, 8% of all governor’s mansions in the country would be occupied by Democratic Jewish Joshes
By Andrew Lapin
Jacob Reses, left, accompanies JD Vance to a meeting with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 16, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/ via JTA)
August 1, 2024, 4:15 am
Meet JD Vance’s Jewish chief of staff, Jacob Reses
Modern Orthodox day school alum, 33, quietly becomes one of most influential conservatives in US after his boss was chosen as Trump’s running mate; interned for Hillary Clinton
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Maryland State Del. Joe Vogel, a Jewish gay Latino Democrat, campaigns with State Sen. Cheryl Kagan in Gaithersburg, Maryland, April 14, 2024. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images/JTA)
May 26, 2024, 3:32 am
This Jewish Gen-Zer wants to be the next progressive pro-Israel US congressman
Joe Vogel, who identifies as Jewish, LGBTQ and Latino, is notable on the national scene, even aside from his young age, while his coreligionists laud his courageous stance on Israel
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: Jewish Democratic Council of America activists join the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice outside the US Capitol, May 17, 2022. (Jewish Democratic Council of America via JTA/ File)
March 12, 2024, 5:01 pm
The Jewish Democrats’ plan to get Joe Biden reelected by targeting independent voters
JDCA notes high Jewish turnout and that in swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia, number of Jews who voted Biden in 2020 was larger than his margin of victory
By Ron Kampeas
David Lubin, in the light blue shirt, attends the funeral of his daughter Rose Elisheva Lubin at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on November 9, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 28, 2024, 2:15 am
Father of lone soldier killed in Jerusalem stabbing attack runs for Georgia state Senate
David Lubin is challenging incumbent progressive democrat Sen. Sally Harrell after she failed to back the state’s adoption of the IHRA antisemitism definition
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Selina Robinson speaks about the challenges facing women in politics, September 7, 2022. (YouTube screenshot/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 13, 2024, 4:04 pm
Jewish Canadian politician fired, gets death threat after snark about pre-Zionist Palestine
Progressive British Columbia minister Selina Robinson forced to step down after anti-Israel activists demand her ouster for calling pre-state Israel a ‘crappy piece of land’
By Robert Sarner
Descendants of Paul Hirsch commemorate the former German mayor in Dortmund, November 30, 2023. (Courtesy of Combat Antisemitism Movement via JTA)
January 2, 2024, 8:19 am
Dortmund honors its only Jewish mayor, who ultimately died poor due to Nazi policies
A new initiative seeks to pay tribute to Paul Hirsch, who transformed the city but was denied pension by the government because he was a Jew, after retiring in poor health in 1933
By Toby Axelrod
Sen. Herb Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat, during the Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on the administration's fiscal 2005 budget for the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill, February 10, 2004. ( Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images via JTA)
December 29, 2023, 4:59 pm
Herb Kohl, former Jewish senator from Wisconsin and Milwaukee Bucks owner, dies at 88
He was known for his soft-spoken approach in philanthropy, business and politics, an outlook he said he learned from his Jewish immigrant parents
By Ron Kampeas
Democratic presidential candidate US Rep. Dean Phillips (Democrat of Minnesota) during a campaign stop, October 31, 2023, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
December 28, 2023, 1:12 am
What to know about Dean Phillips, the Jewish congressman running for US president
The disarming Democrat from Minnesota is friends with Ilhan Omar while staunchly supporting Israel – and praises Joe Biden while competing against him for a long-shot nomination
By Ron Kampeas
New York State Assemblyman George Michaels (D-Auburn) holds his head after changing his vote to 'yes' on a 1970 bill that gave New York the most liberal abortion law in the country, April 9, 1970. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images via JTA)
December 10, 2023, 5:01 pm
Film tells story of Jewish Democrat who sacrificed career to pass abortion rights law
‘Deciding Vote’ brings new attention to decisive yet little-remembered decision by George Michaels to tip scales in favor of legislation that led to 1973 adoption of Roe v. Wade
By julia GERGELY
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