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Related: About this forumRepublican Jews Alarmed at the Prospect of a Void in the House and Senate.
Jewish Republicans know they are not many in number. But at a recent gathering at the St. Regis Hotel in downtown Washington, they pondered the meaning of an especially alarming figure: zilch. As in zip, bupkis, zero.
The stinging defeat last month of Eric Cantor, the House majority leader and the highest-ranking Jewish politician in American history, has created the possibility of Republicans having no Jewish representation in the House or Senate for the first time in more than a half-century.
Sometimes, a Jewish person just wants to be able to go to Congress and speak with a Jewish person, Beverly Goldstein, a Republican donor from Beachwood, Ohio, explained in the hotel lobby after a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
And Chuck Schumer is not it for us, she added, referring to the Democratic senator from New York.
Excluding the soon-to-be-retired Mr. Cantor, there are now 31 Jewish members of Congress 30 of them Democrats and an independent senator from Vermont, Bernard Sanders, who generally votes with Democrats.
Decades after a Reagan era that was relatively rich in Jewish representation on the Republican side of both the House and the Senate, Republican Jews are grappling with what it means for a party that casts itself as the protector of Israel to potentially not have a single one of its children in Congress.
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(23,576 posts)We got Al Franken, Alan Grayson, Jan Schakowsky and many more. (although some aren't so great).
I found a list of the Jewish dems 10 in the senate and 21 in the house:
https://www.njdc.org/site/page/jewish_members_of_congress
I'm Jewish myself and I have to say it does suck that there aren't more African Americans in the senate. We are far less percent of the population in the USA and have far far more representation in congress. That makes me sad. I am glad however that there are no more Jewish republicans in congress.