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The recently formed black-Jewish Congressional caucus, a bi-partisan effort led in part by Southfield-based Rep. Brenda Lawrence to strengthen strained relations between the black and Jewish communities, will be tested early with the announcement Thursday by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) that she will participate in it. Rep.
Black Americans and Jewish Americans are natural allies in the ongoing struggle for civil rights, freedom and liberty for all Americans in the United States. With a shared history of slavery and institutionalized discrimination, blacks and Jews in the U.S., today, must find new and better ways to work together to combat rising levels of anti-Semitism and racist-motivated hate crimes.
Rep. Ilhan Omar will participate in a new bipartisan black-Jewish congressional caucus. On Thursday, the Minnesota Democrat’s spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that she is planning to join the group. On Monday, three black and two Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives from both parties launched the caucus.
Five members of the US House of Representatives announced earlier this week the formation of a bipartisan Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus at the annual global forum of the American Jewish Committee.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is joining the newly formed Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations. Omar’s office confirmed the move to the Washington Examiner on Thursday. Omar’s spokesman did not comment on how the lawmaker’s membership would affect her relationship with Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., a Jewish-American and one of the founding members of the caucus.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) of trying to "poison" a newly formed caucus after she accused him of "bigotry" in an endorsement of the caucus. Zeldin announced the newly formed Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus at an American Jewish Committee (AJC) global forum with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.).
Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., charged Thursday that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is trying to "poison" a new congressional alliance by accusing him of "bigotry" in her endorsement of the new caucus. The Jewish lawmaker announced the newly formed Congressional Black-Jewish caucus at an AJC global forum with Reps. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla., and Brenda Lawrence, D- Mich.
Congress has hundreds of caucuses, collections of politicians with common interests in everything under the sun –- the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Medicare for All Caucus, the Chicken Caucus. On Monday, a new, bipartisan caucus was announced, one that hopes to rebuild a historic alliance that has lately seen some tensions: the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations.
Three black and two Jewish members of the US House of Representatives from both parties launched a black-Jewish caucus. “The African-American and Jewish communities have a history of standing together for the promotion of social justice and civil rights,” Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., said Monday at the annual Global Forum of the American Jewish Committee.
One hundred years ago, a supermajority in the U.S. Congress set aside concerns about social upheaval and gave its approval for a constitutional amendment to guarantee voting rights for women. Those rights were not gifted, but rather earned through decades of effort, and that fight has left a lasting impact on U.S. politics. The passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S.