It’s Chuck. Just Chuck. The senior New York senator has arrived at a new level of fame. Joining the likes of Madonna, Cher and Bono, Chuck Schumer has attained one-name status, as has Nancy Pelosi, the likely next Speaker of the House. With the possibility of a government shutdown looming, media outlets Tuesday have been…
Following the birth of his fist grandchild, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer told Jewish Insider that he sees himself as more of a “grandpa” than a “zayde,” which is Yiddish for “grandfather.” “In the Old Country, they would have called me ‘zayde,’ but here I want to be called ‘grandpa,’” the Democratic Senate minority leader…
Senator Chuck Schumer’s family just got a little bigger. His eldest daughter, Jessica Schumer, and her husband, Michael Shapiro, recently welcomed a baby boy, Noah Melvin Schumer-Shapiro, Axios reported. Schumer’s first grandchild, Noah was born at NYU Langone Tisch Hospital. The “happy Brooklyn baby” was 7 pounds, 21 inches long. Noah’s middle name, Melvin, was…
Alison Schumer, daughter of Sen. Chuck Schumer, married Elizabeth Weiland on Sunday in Brooklyn, New York Post reported. Both dressed in white, the couple posed for photos on the Union Street Bridge before making their way to a nearby event space, where they were married around noon in an intimate ceremony, complete with close friends…
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday morning that Republican Mitch McConnell “owes an apology” to the accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh for labeling her sex abuse allegations a “smear job.” Schumer called out Republicans they pushed back against the allegations by Christine Blasey Ford about sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh when he attended…
This is just like that time Carrie dated the candidate for city treasurer, except so much juicier. via GIPHY Politico has obtained 1,320 pages of emails from City Hall using a freedom of information request — all between New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and various aides of…
The Iraqi Jewish Archive, a trove of items from Iraq’s Jewish community that made its way to the United States for restoration, is at the center of a complex web of issues touching on the forced exodus of Middle Eastern Jews from their home countries, U.S. policy regarding those Jews’ claims to stolen property, the…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer urged President Donald Trump to nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, according to a report in The Washington Post. Schumer, a Jewish Democrat from New York, made the request in a phone call earlier this week, The Post reported. Garland, who also is Jewish, was…
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