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Challenges and opportunities for the Jewish members of the 119th Congress

December 11, 2024December 11, 2024Sara Wood

WASHINGTON — There are 34 Jews in the incoming Congress, with a 35th likely to join in April. Should that candidate, Florida State Sen. Randy Fine, win his special election in Florida, that would mean no change in numbers overall between the outgoing Congress and the incoming one: The House Jewish delegation will drop from […]

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 […]