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She has called for forming a “freedom squad” to counter fellow New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies in Congress, and to fight BDS.
“I have switched a lot of, uh, you know, I guess, culturally Jewish people. But being a practicing Jew, like, people who are religious about it, they are very difficult. I’ve had a hard time connecting with them in that way.”
The expected withdrawals come in the aftermath of shakeups at the Pentagon in which U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper was fired and replaced with Christopher Miller.
While some did not and could not vote, those who did spoke of the privilege of casting a ballot in the United States, as well as the ripple effect the results could have on the Jewish state.
Whoever is nominated would likely signal the direction that the next White House would take on issues relevant to the relationship between America and Israel, including combating anti-Semitism, Diaspora Jewry, Mideast relations, the Iranian threat and more.
Republican New York State Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis got 57.9 percent of the vote; Rose, a Democrat, received 42.1 percent.
As a child, Gross was part of the small Jewish community in Alaska and celebrated his bar mitzvah there.
As the fate of the U.S. Senate rests on two run-off elections in Georgia, GOP control of the Senate could block nominees to the executive branch, including Cabinet members in a Biden administration, who may be hostile towards Israel.
Brian Maiorana, 54, threatened to kill protesters, politicians and others because of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
Avi Benlolo, former president and CEO of the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, applauded the resolution’s passage.
While Democrats continued to win the lion’s share of Jewish votes in 2020, some experts see a trend towards greater support for Republicans. Nevertheless, Jewish leaders urge unity and a focus on solving mutual issues in the next Congress.
Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock does call the BDS movement against Israel “anti-Semitic” and a “refusal to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.”
