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Stephanie Wudarski (PA): ‘I Started to Exhibit Symptoms Myself and Realized How Serious This May Be’

April 16, 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...

Janice Weiner

Janice Weiner (IA): ‘My Community Has Been Working Hard for Weeks to Prepare’

April 16, 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): ‘The Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic has Increased My Support for Him’

April 16, 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...

Mark Goldhaber

Mark Goldhaber (NC): ‘It Has Made Me Feel Better About the President’

April 16, 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...

Nina Jacobs Stanley

Nina Stanley (OH): ‘Trump is a True Threat to Our Wellbeing’

April 16, 2021
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Nina Stanley (68) is a Democrat from Cincinnati, OH. Her “very liberal” leanings haven’t budged since May 4, 1970, when bullets fired by the Ohio National...

Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith (OH): ‘The Federal Response Has Been Pretty Good Under the Circumstances’

April 16, 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.”...

Alan Zimmerman

Alan Zimmerman (VA): ‘This Tragic Failure Will Define Trump’s Pitiful Legacy’

April 16, 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...

Beth Bendheim

Beth Bendheim (VA): ‘The Federal Response is Unacceptable’

July 4, 2023
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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...

Ariana Mentzel

Ariana Mentzel (MI): ‘The President’s Remarks Have Been Ridiculous’

April 16, 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): ‘Many of My Peers are Failing to Take the Threat Seriously’

April 16, 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...

*Ongoing Findings, 000 JPVP, Coronavirus, Latest

Voters Disagree on Administration’s Response to Coronavirus, but Agree on Seriousness of the Crisis

With the nationwide near-total shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic, we asked participants in the Jewish Political Voices Project (JPVP) what they thought about...

Felipe Goodman

Felipe Goodman (NV): ‘Each One of the Parties Has to Deal With Their Own Ghosts’

April 16, 2021
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“I don’t think that the President is directly responsible for anti-Semitism. I really don’t. I think that certain things he does allows the far right to act with impunity.”

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