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Schumer book tour postponed due to ‘security concerns’

The Jewish Senate minority leader’s book events are on hold “as the New York Democrat faces blowback over his recent vote to avert a government shutdown,” Jewish Insider reported.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) gives remarks before President Joe Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House, Nov. 15, 2021. Credit: Cameron Smith/White House.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has put a tour promoting his forthcoming book Antisemitism in America: A Warning on hold, “as the New York Democrat faces blowback over his recent vote to avert a government shutdown,” Jewish Insider reported.

The “urgent and personal,” 256-page book “sheds light on the Jewish American experience and sounds the alarm about the troubling resurgence of antisemitism,” according to the publisher, Grand Central Publishing, which is slated to release the book on March 18.

Related events in Washington, Baltimore and New York have been postponed, Jewish Insider reported, as well as Philadelphia.

Risa Heller, a spokeswoman for the tour, told JNS that “due to security concerns, Sen. Schumer’s book events are being rescheduled.”

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