Halie Soifer is CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. She previously served as national security adviser to then-Sen. Kamala Harris, senior policy adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and foreign policy adviser to Sen. Chris Coons.
Halie Soifer
By Halie Soifer
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Opinion Not just about defeating Trump: Why Kamala Harris is the next president that Jews need
I couldn't be more excited to vote for Harris in November — here's why you should feel the same way
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Opinion Schumer spoke for the majority of American Jews
Only 31% of American Jewish voters have a favorable view of the Israeli prime minister
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Opinion Jewish voters have the power to carry Democrats in the midterms
Abortion and the ongoing threats to democracy are the most important issues for Jewish voters
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Opinion We desperately need an antisemitism monitor. Republicans must stop obstructing Lipstadt’s confirmation
Nearly 200 days after President Biden announced that he intended to nominate Dr. Deborah Lipstadt to serve as U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, she finally had a confirmation hearing before the Senate. The Feb. 8 hearing came months after leading Jewish organizations called on the Senate to consider this critical nomination and…
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Community Antony Blinken’s Yom HaShoah speech was remarkable — it acknowledged U.S. complicity
Thursday marked Yom HaShoah, a day when we remember the unparalleled horrors of the Holocaust, honor the six million Jewish lives lost, and affirm that such tragedies should never be repeated. This somber day typically includes statements from U.S. government officials reflecting on the Shoah and pledging “never again.” In his speech during the U.S….
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Opinion Don’t compare antisemitism on the left and right. Marjorie Taylor Greene proves it’s not the same.
After a long year of American crises, 2021 began with a violent insurrection incited by Donald Trump. The events of Jan. 6 represented an unprecedented attack on our democracy, culminating in domestic terrorists infiltrating and desecrating the U.S. Capitol at the urging of the President of the United States. Today, it’s clear that while Trump…
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Opinion They criticized us for comparing Trump’s hate to the Nazis. Then he told the Proud Boys to ‘stand by.’
The Jewish Democratic Council of America, the organization which I lead, released a political ad on Tuesday highlighting the parallels between President Donald Trump’s use of hatred for political purposes and the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. The ad, which juxtaposes images of Nazis inspired by Hitler with those inspired by President Trump, was…
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Opinion Trump is illegally using Jerusalem as a backdrop for his reality show
Later today, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will address the Republican National Convention from Israel. Violating multiple State Department regulations bearing his own name, Secretary Pompeo’s speech demonstrates two realities of the Trump administration: First, Trump has a reckless disregard for the law. This speech, taped during Pompeo’s official State Department travel to Israel, is…
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Fast Forward Who is Laura Loomer? Trump wing woman uses her Jewishness to attack
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Fast Forward Man suffers severe burn injuries after self-immolation protest outside Israeli consulate in Boston
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Yiddish ווער זענען געווען די שרײַבער און לייענער פֿון ליטעראַטור אויף אַלט־ייִדיש?Who were the writers and readers of literature in Old Yiddish?
אין קעלן, דײַטשלאַנד האָט מען אויסגעגראָבן טאָװלען מיט ייִדישע אותיות, װאָס מען האָט אַ פּנים גענוצט זיך צו לערנען שרײַבן.
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Fast Forward Senate to advance contentious bill to crack down on anti-Israel activity on campus
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