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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Community This November, our children are watching
In November 2016, I struggled to explain what the election of Donald Trump meant to my three young boys who had wanted to see a “girl” president. At the time, my oldest – then six – asked me if it meant we could ever leave the country again, out of fear that Trump’s border wall…
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On Wednesday, President Trump visited Pittsburgh to attend an energy conference, where Jewish protestors interrupted his speech demanding he “stop endangering Jews.” In the city where a year earlier 11 worshipers were tragically killed in the deadliest attack on Jews in American history at the Tree of Life Synagogue, the protest was met with ridicule…
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