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US Senator Cory Booker launches coalition of Black and Jewish senators
[IsraelTimes] Sen. Cory Spartacus Booker
U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker was a candidate for president in the 2020 Dem primary, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes and is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...
 is leading a group of US Jewish and Black senators in establishing a coalition to fight antisemitism and racism.

The so-called Black-Jewish coalition will also include Booker’s fellow Democrats Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Richard "Dick" Blumenthal of Connecticut, as well as Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican from across the aisle.

"There’s been a long history of Black people and Jewish sisters and brothers working together on a whole range of concerns," Warnock is quoted as saying by NJ.com.

The idea of convening the politicians was spurred by reports of rising antisemitism amid a national reckoning around racial injustice.

"We will be fighting both racism and anti-Semitism," Blumenthal says. "I think we’re in the midst of a racial justice moment and a reckoning now that could draw us together."

Scott Richman, director of the Anti-Defamation League in New York/New Jersey, praises the initiative.

"This would be an important step towards bringing together two communities with a shared commitment to justice and an end to bias and bigotry," he tells NJ.com.

A similar body, called the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations, already exists in the House of Representatives.

Booker, who keeps a Hebrew Bible on his Senate desk, has a long history of connections with the Jewish community. He often cites Torah passages and recites Hebrew quotes in public appearances.
That no doubt dates back to his membership in Oxford University’s L’Chaim Society, an interfaith dinner and debating society hosted by Chabad’s Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, of which Senator Booker was co-president when he was there on a Rhodes scholarship. The two fell out over the honourable senator’s support for President Obama’s Iran deal, which the rabbi bitterly describes as genocidal.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-04
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