Lee Zeldin

No. 23: Will Scharf, Martin Marks, Morgan Ortagus, Lee Zeldin: Pushing the Trump agenda

Will Scharf, Marin Marks, Morgan Ortagus, and Lee Zeldin are some of the top Jewish Donald Trump appointees helping push the agenda forward.

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(L-R from top): Will Scharf, Morgan Ortagus, Martin Marks, Lee Zeldin
Top row, from left: Laura Loomer, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Stephen Miller. Bottom row: Howard Lutnick, Lee Zeldin, David Friedman, Miriam Adelson.

The who's who of Jews in Trump’s inner circle

Four years later, as Trump prepares to reenter the White House, some of that cast of characters is back while others have dropped off the stage.

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NEW YORK Congressman and Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin shakes hands with people during the annual Columbus Day parade in New York City, earlier this month

Lee Zeldin, Jewish former NY gubernatorial candidate, endorses Trump

“Our nominee in 2024 will be the 45th & 47th POTUS, Donald Trump," Zeldin tweeted Monday.

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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters after he was nominated by fellow Republicans to be their leader or the Speaker of the House if they take control in the next Congress, Washington, US, November 15, 2022.

Republican McCarthy loses first, second votes for US House speaker

Republicans won a narrow majority in November's midterms, meaning any candidate for speaker will need to unify a fractious caucus to win.

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Rep. Zeldin brings anti-boycott act to Congress

Unlike laws in the 1970s, the bill does not include criminal penalties, but it preserves the earlier laws’ monetary punishment.

JANUARY 15, 2020ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA, OMRI NAHMIAS
Protesters hold abanner that reads "Boycott Israel" during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Paris

The Impeachment Chronicles: What does it have to do with Israel?

For the third time in the Republic’s history, the US House of Representatives impeached a president.

DECEMBER 22, 2019ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
U.S. House of Representatives votes on Trump impeachment on Capitol Hill in Washington on December 19, 2019.

Sarsour bashes Black-Jewish caucus, even after Omar joins

The caucus aims to bring Blacks and Jews together to back hate crimes legislation and combat White supremacist ideology and actions.

JUNE 10, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Linda Sarsour speaks onstage during the Women's March on Washington on January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Ilhan Omar is joining newly formed black-Jewish congressional caucus

The caucus will work to bring blacks and Jews together to back hate crimes legislation and combat white supremacist ideology and actions.

JUNE 7, 2019ByJOSEFIN DOLSTEN/JTA
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) participates in a House Education and Labor Committee Markup on the H.R. 582 Raise The Wage Act, in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 6, 2019 in Washington, D.C

New U.S. act could protect Mideast Jewish cemeteries, historical property

Initially established in the wake of the Holocaust, the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad was created to continue to care for the communal properties left behind.

APRIL 15, 2019ByOMRI NAHMIAS
US Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), the only Jewish Republican in Congress