“I’ve met most of the Senate’s other Jews, and I can say with a high degree of certainty that Booker knows more Torah than they do,” Jeffrey Goldberg, now editor of The Atlantic, wrote in the New York Post in 2013. I want to stand here as a Christian goy in all of my non-Jewish self and give you all a d’var Torah.” “I want to do something that has probably never been done before at this university. “Today I want to do something a little different than you were probably expecting from this Christian man from Newark, New Jersey,” Booker told Yale’s 2013 graduating class. He delivers drashas.īooker likes to open his speeches, to Jews and non-Jews alike, with Torah analysis - and he likes to make a big deal about how weird it seems. Booker participated in the exchange of vows at Klapper’s 2016 wedding to Victoria Edelman.
OK, he does them for his former chief of staff, Matt Klapper, who is now a senior adviser to his presidential campaign. I am not sure why he’s reacting the way he is.” He does Jewish weddings. “The book is not about my relationships with lots of friends or even different communities, such as the Latino community which embraced me, that have been impactful,” Booker told HuffPost. That settled that - except no one has yet to figure out the Spartacus reference.īoteach was even more heartbroken when Booker did not mention him in his 2016 book “United,” on bringing Americans together. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, said, basically, no harm, no foul - Booker had not actually violated protocol. Bush.īooker proudly said he was breaking Senate protocol by doing so, inviting the Senate to censure him, and calling himself “Spartacus.” The committee’s Republican chairman, Sen.
Booker was at the center of a bizarre non-scandal during last year’s Senate hearings confirming Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice after leaking embarrassing emails from Kavanaugh’s career as White House counsel to President George W. He was a heralded football player in high school who failed to live up to his billing at Stanford, and he is a former mayor of Newark who rescued a woman from a fire and a dog from freezing temperatures.
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The senator’s rise to fame has been full of headlines. Here’s a start: The New Jersey politician literally carried a rabbi on his back until he (figuratively) cast same rabbi into the waters, like a forgotten sin.īooker announced his presidential bid in a phone call on Friday morning, and was set for a campaign rollout on black and Latino radio (Friday is the first day of Black History Month, and Booker is African-American). Cory Booker, who just announced for the Democratic presidential nomination, you ask? WASHINGTON (JTA) - Five Jewish things about US Sen.
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