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For Bay Area Jewish progressives, this time feels different – J.


Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg was not asked to release a public statement on the flareup of violence between Israel and Hamas. Nevertheless, he felt compelled to do so.
So the mayor issued a release on May 18 expressing his strong connection to the Jewish state, as well as his disgust with some of the recent actions of the Netanyahu administration. The headline read, “I do not recognize the Israel I love.”
The essay won Steinberg praise from some fellow progressives but “mixed reactions,” he said, from the Jewish community.
A former local chair of the Sacramento Jewish Community Relations Council, whose wife is a Reform cantor, Steinberg is a self-described “proud Jew” representing a strongly Democratic city that chose Joe Biden over Donald Trump by more than 50 percentage points in nearly every precinct. As mayor, currently in his fifth year in office, he has supported policies to benefit undocumented immigrants and was a vocal critic of the previous ....

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