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Adam Schiff is sworn into Senate on edition of Maimonides’ Jewish legal code printed in 1490

December 9, 2024December 10, 2024Sara Wood

WASHINGTON — Adam Schiff, the freshman Democratic senator from California, is being sworn into office on a 1490 edition of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, one of the most revered and prominent codes of Jewish law. Schiff, in a statement ahead of his swearing in on Monday, said the edition, published in the duchy of Milan, now […]

Adam Schiff, California’s Jewish senator-elect and Trump’s nemesis, says the US is ‘very much weakened as a democracy’

November 26, 2024November 28, 2024Sara Wood

WASHINGTON — Long ago, when Adam Schiff was in Slovakia on a temporary assignment from the U.S. Justice Department, he decided to seek out his family’s ancestral home in Lithuania. The idea left his grandmother perplexed. “I think she said something along the lines of, ‘We fought like hell to get out of there. Why […]