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Ariana Mentzel (MI): ‘Trump Is an Agitator and Spokesman for Fascist Thinking and Brutality’

April 7, 2021
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Ariana Mentzel (34), a Democrat from Beverly Hills, MI, leads college students in conversations about anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Detroit Center for...

Stuart Baum

Stuart Baum (MI): ‘The Institution of the Police is Broken and Must be Upended’

April 7, 2021
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Stuart Baum (22), a Democrat from Detroit, MI, attended Jewish day school growing up and is a recent graduate of Wayne State University where he served...

Janice Weiner

Janice Weiner (IA): ‘It’s Not About the President—it Is About the Country and Systemic Racism’

April 7, 2021
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Janice Weiner (61), a Democrat from Iowa City, IA, is president-elect of her synagogue, Agudas Achim, and on its safety committee, an area where she gained...

Bud Hockenberg

Bud Hockenberg (IA): ‘Systemic Racism is an Antifa Fiction to Destroy America’

April 12, 2021
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Bud Hockenberg (92), a Republican from Des Moines IA, is the former president of the Des Moines Jewish Federation and a founding member of what is...

*JPVP Feature Story, Glenn Hamer, Janice Weiner, Summer Issue 2020

JPVP Debate | Will America finally confront income inequality?

April 12, 2021
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This summer has placed racial inequality front and center in the American consciousness.

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Sandra Lawson (NC): ‘If It Stops Being on the News, People Will Stop Caring’

April 12, 2021
By Dan Freedman
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Rabbi Sandra Lawson serves as Jewish educator and associate chaplain for Jewish life at Elon University near Burlington, North Carolina. Since September, Lawson has been a participant in our Jewish Political Voices Project, where Moment is exploring the views of American Jewish voters in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Moment contributor Dan Freedman spoke with Lawson about the recent events surrounding the murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed.

Dan Levin

Dan Levin (FL): ‘People Can Die from More than a Virus’

April 16, 2021
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Daniel Levin (50), a Democrat from Boca Raton, FL, is a past president of the southeast region of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and...

Lou Weiss

Lou Weiss (PA): ‘Anthony Fauci for President!’

April 16, 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...

Michael Ginsberg

Michael Ginsburg (VA): ‘We Shouldn’t Pick At Every Little Failure’

April 16, 2021
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Michael Ginsberg (45), a Republican from Centerville, VA is an attorney and aerospace engineer. He is vice president and deputy general counsel for CACI International, an information...

Eliot Strickon

Eliot Strickon (WI): ‘In My Orthodox Community, There Were Still Large Gatherings’

April 16, 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...

Hannah Rosenthal

Hannah Rosenthal (WI): ‘This May Well be Trump’s Undoing’

April 16, 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...

Miriam Laing

Miriam Laing (FL): ‘We’ve Literally Never Experienced Anything of this Magnitude In Our Lifetimes’

April 16, 2021
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Miriam Laing (50), a Democrat from Lake Worth, FL, has spent most of her career working for nonprofit Jewish organizations. An activist since childhood, she is...

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