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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 […]

In Philadelphia’s suburbs, an army of canvassers targets Jewish voters

October 21, 2024October 21, 2024Sara Wood

BALA CYNWYD, Pennsylvania — The second time this month Benny Stanislawski made the three-hour trip from the Jewish precincts of suburban Washington to the Jewish precincts of suburban Philadelphia, he ditched his car and borrowed his mother’s minivan. He needed the space provided by the 2019 Honda Odyssey, plastered with stickers from the alma maters […]