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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
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The world is learning a lot about Georgia and how it feels about Jews.
On the one hand, a Jewish Democrat named Jon Ossoff – along with a progressive Black minister – were elected as the state’s senators, tipping the national legislative balance to the Democrats.
One the other, newly-elected Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican representing a district in the state’s northwest, was stripped of her committee assignments for promoting kooky QAnon conspiracy theories, including a belief in Jewish-run space lasers.
Is Georgia a forward-thinking haven, or the deep racist and antisemitic south? The answer is both, and confronting that reality is a priority in these polarizing times.