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Alan Zimmerman (VA): ‘I Think It Is Important for People to Get Out There and Be Counted on This Issue’

April 7, 2021
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Alan Zimmerman (61), a Democrat from Charlottesville, VA, was president of Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right march in August 2017. Zimmerman...

Hannah Rosenthal

Hannah Rosenthal (WI): ‘What We Need Now, Urgently, is Leadership, Competence, and Empathy’

April 7, 2021
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Hannah Rosenthal (68), a Democrat from Madison, WI, originally thought she would follow her father, a 16th-generation rabbi, into the family business. Instead, she became a...

Mark Goldhaber

Mark Goldhaber (NC): ‘How Will Joe Biden Reach Across the Political Landscape to Encourage Me to Be Willing to Vote for Him?’

April 7, 2021
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Mark Goldhaber (67), a Republican from Raleigh, NC, is active in the Jewish Federation and AIPAC. He previously worked for a Republican member of Congress and...

Eliot Strickon

Eliot Strickon (WI): ‘My Pet Rabbits Have Handled the Crisis Better Than Trump’

April 7, 2021
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Eliot Strickon (54), a Democrat from Milwaukee, WI, lives in an Orthodox Jewish and African American urban community and serves on his synagogue’s board. He is the...

Ruth Kantrowitz

Ruth Kantrowitz (WI): ‘Everyone Needs to Gain Respect and Learn to Listen’

April 7, 2021
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Ruth Kantrowitz (42), a Republican from Mequon, WI, immigrated to the U.S. from Israel in 1989 at age 13 when her family won the green card...

Beth Bendheim

Beth Bendheim (VA): ‘I Give Lots of Credit to the Younger Generation’

April 7, 2021
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Beth Bendheim (50), a Democrat from Richmond, VA, was the development director for a Jewish day school in Richmond prior to working in finance. She also...

Stephanie Wudarski

Stephanie Wudarski (PA): ‘Protests Are Aimed at Changing the Societal Contract Between Citizen and Law Enforcement’

April 7, 2021
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Stephani Wudarski (30), a Democrat from Pittsburgh, PA, does not belong to a synagogue but attends High Holy Day services with her family and went to...

Lou Weiss

Lou Weiss (PA): ‘Law and Order are Attractive Things to Most People’

April 7, 2021
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Lou Weiss (63), a Republican from Pittsburgh, PA, grew up a Reform Jew in a “McGovern liberal family” in Pittsburgh. His conservative political views took hold...

Nancy Santanello

Nancy Santanello (PA): ‘Protesting Is the Bedrock on Which America was Founded’

April 7, 2021
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Nancy Santanello (70), a Democrat from New Hope, PA, was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism when she married her Jewish husband. At Howard University, she...

Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith (OH): ‘I Do Not Feel the Criminal Behavior of Even a Few Bad Cops is Characteristic of Policing Generally’

April 7, 2021
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Andrew Smith (57), a Republican from Columbus, OH, grew up in Maine where he was raised Conservative, “because that’s pretty much all we had up there.”...

Debate, Opinion, Summer Issue 2020

Moment Debate Round Two | Should There be Medicare for All?

August 3, 2023
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In the previous issue, Moment asked David Dayen and Stuart M. Butler to debate whether there should be Medicare for All. Dayen said yes; Butler said no. Here, they respond to each other’s arguments.

Debate, Opinion, Summer Issue 2020

Debate | Is Small Government Still Possible?

August 3, 2023
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We asked Russell Roberts and Harold Meyerson.

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