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Senator Chuck Schumer is the most successful American Jewish politician, if we absent Judah Benjamin. Louisiana elected Judah Benjamin to the Senate in 1852. He was one of Slavery’s most eloquent supporters and became Attorney General, Secretary of War and Secretary of State of the Confederate States. Benjamin was an American traitor who fled the U.S. for Great Britain at the end of the civil war. We also know him for being the largest Jewish slave owner in American history. I wish we could excommunicate him. (Poor Baruch Spinoza, right? He gets kicked out of the tribe for helping people see while Benjamin remains.) Forget him. I want to talk about the largest Jewish slave owning f