Good Friday morning.
In today’s Daily Kickoff, we look at how Rep. Mike Rogers is calibrating his Jewish outreach as he builds a broad coalition against Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race, and report on efforts by Bay Area Jewish leaders to push outgoing Rep. Nancy Pelosi to address the anti-Israel rhetoric espoused by Connie Chan, whom Pelosi endorsed in the race to succeed her. We cover the local response to a Vermont synagogue’s fundraiser for Columbia anti-Israel activist Mohsen Madawi, and report on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s announcement that the city plans to soon release a municipal plan to combat antisemitism. Also in today’s Daily Kickoff: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Tamar Rothstein and Omer Shem Tov.
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Today’s Daily Kickoff was curated by JI Executive Editor Melissa Weiss and Israel Editor Tamara Zieve, with assists from Danielle Cohen-Kanik and Marc Rod. Have a tip? Email us here.
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For less-distracted reading over the weekend, browse this week’s edition of The Weekly Print, a curated print-friendly PDF featuring a selection of recent Jewish Insider and eJewishPhilanthropy stories, including: Jewish leaders build up local grassroots organizing to counter radical forces in politics; New AJC regional director looks to business community for allies in Mamdani’s New York; and ‘Shabbat with training wheels’: Sabbath app offers a modern take on unplugging. Print the latest edition here.
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- While Washington is quiet during the August recess, the campaign season is kicking into high gear — both for the few remaining states to hold their primaries, and for general ballot candidates who have less than three months before Election Day.
- In Nassau County, N.Y., President Donald Trump will campaign today with N.Y. GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman.
- In Florida, where voters will cast their primary ballots on Tuesday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is campaigning on behalf of several left-wing candidates, including Elijah Manley and Oliver Larkin. Manley and Larkin are respectively challenging Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), two of Congress’ most pro-Israel lawmakers, following a redistricting that has scrambled both lawmakers’ districts. Tlaib is set to participate in several events today, including a rally this evening that was relocated after the initial venue canceled the event amid pushback from area residents.
- On Sunday, voters in California's 14th Congressional District will head to the polls for the special election to replace Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA). More below.
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A QUICK WORD WITH JI'S MELISSA WEISS |
A quarter century ago, when the late Sen. Joe Lieberman was tapped by Al Gore, the Democratic nominee for president, to be his running mate on the 2000 ticket, the question around many a Shabbat table was, “Is he too Jewish to be in the White House?”
There’s a different question being asked, largely in Democratic circles, of today’s potential Jewish presidential candidates: “Is he the ‘right’ kind of Jewish candidate to be president?” — a question that is almost entirely centered around a candidate’s position on Israel and how openly he identifies with his religious faith.
A long list of Jewish candidates are considering a presidential campaign or are being touted as credible contenders, ranging from moderates including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to progressives such as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and those who straddle the ideological divide, like Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA).
In both 2026 and 2028, the debate over Israel is on the ballot: Congressional primaries are pitting pro-Israel candidates against those who don’t acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, and already a clear divide is emerging in the prospective 2028 presidential field over the issues of the U.S.-Israel relationship and dealing with rising antisemitism.
Even in races where Israel policy is not front-and-center, invoking AIPAC has become something of a catch-all slur for progressives attacking the role of outside money in Democratic primaries. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely 2028 hopeful, proudly proclaimed in February that he’d never taken AIPAC money — which of course he hasn’t, given that AIPAC and its affiliated super PAC historically focus on federal, not state, races.
Read the rest of ‘What You Should Know’ here.
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Mike Rogers calibrates Jewish outreach as he builds broad coalition against Abdul El-Sayed |
More than a week after Abdul El-Sayed narrowly clinched the Democratic nomination in Michigan’s bruising Democratic Senate primary, his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), is working to fine-tune his campaign’s outreach and messaging to disaffected Jewish voters who could play a decisive role in the closely contested race, Jewish Insider’s Matthew Kassel reports.
Sign of the times: In one of the first major signs of those efforts now materializing, three prominent Jewish Democratic bundlers in Michigan are hosting a fundraiser for Rogers next Tuesday, according to an email invite sent to Jewish community members on Thursday. “This is something that none of us has ever done,” said Hannan Lis, who is leading the fundraiser with Brian Hermelin and Rob Orley. “But we feel this is a departure in the direction of the Democratic Party,” he told JI of El-Sayed’s staunch opposition to Israel and refusal to recognize its right to exist as a Jewish state. “We’re taking a stand here,” he added. “This is beyond politics.”
Read the full story here.
Survey says: Rogers starts off the Michigan Senate general election race with a narrow advantage over El-Sayed, according to a new Fox News poll, aided by a lead with independents and making inroads with a small but significant number of Democrats willing to cross party lines, JI’s Josh Kraushaar reports.
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Bay Area Jewish leaders urge Pelosi to address ally Connie Chan’s anti-Israel rhetoric |
Leaders in the Bay Area Jewish community are urging former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to speak out or otherwise address her endorsed successor Connie Chan’s decision to lean into Israel and AIPAC-related attacks on her Jewish Democratic opponent, state Sen. Scott Wiener, which some in the Jewish community view as antisemitic, Jewish Insider’s Marc Rod reports.
Weighing in: Tyler Gregory, the CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area and executive director of Bay Area Jewish Action, told JI he hopes Pelosi will “educate [Chan] about where the line is between criticizing the Israeli government and amplifying antisemitic tropes.” Tali Klima, a spokesperson for Bay Area Jewish Coalition-Action, a separate grassroots group, urged Pelosi to speak out publicly. Both described Pelosi as an ally of the community.
Read the full story here.
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal rails against university decision to cancel Hasan Piker speech |
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said on Thursday that she had been “communicating [her] concerns” to the University of Washington over the school’s decision to cancel a planned appearance by antisemitic influencer Hasan Piker, and pushed student groups to engage with the streamer, Jewish Insider’s Matthew Shea reports.
What she said: The University of Washington “informed me that they are doing an internal review to ensure this never happens again,” Jayapal wrote in a post on X. “I encourage student groups who want to hear from Mr. Piker to work with the University to ensure that they can proceed.” She linked in her post a Seattle Times article on Piker claiming he was silenced over his views on Israel.
Read the full story here.
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Ruling for Harvard clouds picture for future campus antisemitism cases |
A federal judge in Boston dismissed the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard University on Thursday, ruling that the incidents were “too isolated and episodic” to show an ongoing violation of civil rights law, Jewish Insider's Haley Cohen reports. Judge Richard Stearns pointed out that while the government’s amended complaint cited three March 2025 incidents, it still focused almost entirely on the 2023–2024 school year.
Pushback: The Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which filed its own lawsuit against Harvard in 2024 alleging failure to address antisemitism, said that Thursday’s ruling will make other Title VI cases harder. "This ruling, if broadly adopted by the courts, would add an unprecedented higher bar: the government now has to prove not only that the institution refused to resolve the issue at hand in an agreement with the government but also that additional subsequent violations occurred,” the Brandeis Center said in a statement.
Read the full story here.
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Mamdani promises municipal plan to combat antisemitism |
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani followed up his meeting with a group of rabbis earlier this week by touting a plan to battle antisemitism in the five boroughs — without committing to making changes in his rhetoric toward Israel that the group of Jewish religious leaders demanded, Jewish Insider’s Will Bredderman reports.
What he said — and what he didn’t: “I had a candid and productive conversation with rabbis representing a wide swath of New York’s Jewish communities and affiliations, and I appreciated hearing from them,” Mamdani said after an unrelated event in Manhattan on Thursday. But Mamdani did not explicitly state on Thursday that he would act on their recommendations, instead touting his increased spending on groups that run anti-hate crime initiatives and a plan his Office to Combat Antisemitism will release next month to tamp down on the anti-Jewish bias incidents that have risen on his watch.
Read the full story here.
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Vermont synagogue’s fundraiser for Columbia anti-Israel activist draws criticism |
A synagogue in the capital of Vermont co-sponsored a fundraiser last Sunday for Mohsen Mahdawi, a former Columbia University anti-Israel activist who has voiced sympathy for Hamas, drawing sharp criticism from some congregants, Jewish Insider’s Haley Cohen reports. The event took place at Unitarian Church of Montpelier, which co-sponsored it with Beth Jacob Synagogue, according to a flyer posted on the synagogue's website and distributed to all members. The congregation is unaffiliated with a denomination.
Details: Some synagogue members reportedly pushed back against the fundraiser before it took place. The synagogue’s board of directors declined to comment to JI. In a statement to JI, the Jewish Communities of Vermont said the “questions surrounding Mohsen Mahdawi, including statements and actions attributed to him, have raised concerns deserving serious and rigorous consideration and prompted strong, deeply felt disagreements. We recognize that the pain is acute. At the same time, a Jewish community intending to practice tikkun olam by creating space for engagement with a specific focus does not necessarily constitute endorsement of everything that person has said or believes.”
Read the full story here.
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Pray or Prey?: In The Wall Street Journal, Moshe Davis, who served as the inaugural executive director of the New York Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism under former Mayor Eric Adams, makes the argument for the federal Right to Worship Act, which he helped to craft. “While existing laws cover harassment and obstruction, they don’t reach the organized disruption that actually makes Americans feel afraid to enter their houses of worship. Courts have repeatedly upheld buffer-zone protections for funerals, polling sites and other places where people deserve to be left in peace; a law addressing disruptive behavior at houses of worship is on solid constitutional ground.” [WSJ]
No Deal is a Good Deal: The Washington Post’s editorial board argues that a policy of containment vis-a-vis Iran is a better approach than making a deal with the Islamic Republic. “The U.S. should adapt its blockade to be more sustainable, lowering the number of ships conducting direct interdictions while sanctioning anyone who buys Iranian oil that gets through. The regime’s frozen assets should also stay frozen. And Iran’s proxies should be relentlessly suppressed in Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza. Crucially, Trump needs to keep the threat of significant escalation on the table, especially if Iran takes even the smallest step toward reconstituting its nuclear program.” [WashPost]
How DSA Does It: The New York Times’ Charles Homan does a deep dive into the Democratic Socialists of America’s resurgence, as the group seeks to reshape the Democratic Party. “Offline communities built around shared interests — the sort once found in bowling alleys, all-ages punk-rock venues, church basements or radical bookstores — are rare now, and D.S.A. chapters fill this role. They offer not just a different politics but a different model for what participating in politics means. Chapter operations are heavily D.I.Y. affairs, which adds a giddy unreality to their victories, as if a group of college friends started a record label in their dorm room and somehow ended up using it to unseat an eight-term congressman.” [NYTimes]
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White House advisor Jared Kushner is expected to travel to Israel next week with Board of Peace High Representative Nickolay Mladenov, where the two will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials to discuss the Hamas disarmament deal; Kushner is also expected to travel to Cairo to meet with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators…
Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that the U.S.’ primary goal in the war with Iran is to “keep oil and gasoline cheap for Americans,” while “goal No. 2 is ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon”...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the Trump administration planned to apply economic tactics “that have never been seen on Iran,” as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested that the U.S.’ naval blockade of Iran would remain in place “indefinitely”...
CENTCOM announced a new effort to establish the “first-ever multi-domain, multinational attack drone task force,” including consulting with and inviting regional partners to join, that will work to utilize unmanned, one-way attack drones “from above, on, and below the sea” in the Middle East…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) penned a letter to Hegseth and acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao raising concerns about the deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been on extended deployment in the Middle East; Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a former Marine, said he was seeking an oversight visit to the vessel for a bipartisan Senate delegation…
Meanwhile, the U.S. military is preparing to send the USS George Washington from the South China Sea to the region to relieve the Lincoln; the move will leave a U.S. void in the Pacific, where Beijing has positioned a carrier…
The United Arab Emirates condemned what it said was a “hostile Iranian attack” targeting two boats linked to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company as the vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz…
Behnam Ben Taleblu, the senior director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Iran program, warned on Thursday of potential Iranian escalation — military or otherwise — in the run-up to the midterms, with the goal of disrupting the elections, Jewish Insider’s Marc Rod reports...
Semafor looks at the U.S.’ stalled sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey as Ankara remains in possession of the S-400 Russian air-defense system, the offloading of which is a requirement to move forward with the F-35 sale…
Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC), facing a runoff special election to be the GOP nominee for her late brother’s Senate seat, announced she is co-sponsoring several bills in support of the Jewish community and the U.S.-Israel relationship, including the Jewish American Security Act, the U.S.-Israel FUTURES Act, a bill on Iran sanctions and a bill on Iranian human rights and internet access…
Politico profiles Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) as the former Democratic National Committee chair faces a challenging reelection campaign — fighting headwinds from both local activists and the Congressional Black Caucus as she runs in a historically Black district following Florida’s GOP-led redistricting effort…
Former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is slated to headline a Labor Day rally for the Hancock County Maine Democrats next month, his first public appearance since dropping out of the race last month after he was accused of sexual assault by a former romantic partner; a state party official said the event was not a sanctioned party event but hosted by the local activist groups Hancock County Activists and Acadia Action Peacemakers…
The Wall Street Journal spotlights Hasan Piker’s rising popularity on the far left, despite concerns from moderate Democrats that the antisemitic streamer’s brand of progressivism will taint the party in the midterms…
J Street Action Fund, the super PAC affiliated with the progressive Israel advocacy group, on Thursday spent $108,000 on digital advertisements to boost progressive California state Sen. Aisha Wahab in the special election in California’s 14th Congressional District, Jewish Insider’s Marc Rod reports…
The California state Legislature is considering a bill to require state agencies to include “Jewish” as an ethnicity option on all forms that collect demographic data; the move would make California the first state to officially consider Judaism as more than a religion for identification purposes…
The National Council for Jewish Women is rolling out a new strategic plan, in which local chapters who want to maintain their affiliation with the group need to align with the national organization’s shift away from community service to focus more on advocacy, eJewishPhilanthropy's Jay Deitcher reports...
An Illinois man who attacked two Jewish students at DePaul University in November 2024 pleaded guilty to committing a hate crime and was sentenced to 600 days in jail; a second assailant who pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges was sentenced to two years’ probation…
Tel Aviv University has removed the name of the Sackler family from its Faculty of Exact Sciences, the final department on its campus that was still named for the family tied to the U.S. opioid crisis, eJewishPhilanthropy's Justin Hayet reports...
Tamar Rothstein is now communications director for Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY)…
Former Air Force Secretary James Roche, a member of the advisory board of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a board member of the Friends of the Jewish Chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy, died at 86…
Former South Dakota lawmaker and philanthropist Stan Adelstein died at 94…
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JI wine columnist Yitz Applbaum reviews the Charley Winery Romi 2021:
This week I marked one of the in-between birthdays. My plan had been to go about my business and let the day pass quietly, like any other. But as the morning wore on, birthday wishes began arriving from friends scattered across the world, and nearly every one carried the same question: What amazing bottle of wine will you crack open tonight to celebrate? Something in me shifted. I wanted a bottle new to me, something vibrant, something I would remember. My hand reached for the Charley Winery Romi, grown in the Judean Hills.
The Romi is a blend of cabernet sauvignon and petite sirah. The petite came out of the gate crashing into my front palate in a way I will not soon forget: bold, brash and utterly alive. The cabernet followed on the mid-palate with a beautiful infusion of berry, and the finish gathered the two into a genuinely serene moment, the kind of quiet that only a great glass of wine, in the right hour, can bring. The Romi is mevushal, and it would grace any simcha. Serve it with a rich risotto. It will hold beautifully for at least five years.
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Former hostage Omer Shem Tov, who spent 505 days in Hamas captivity, escorted his sister Dana down the aisle at her wedding to Daniel Saportas on Thursday.
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Filmmaker and producer, she is the executive director of DOC NYC, a major documentary film festival in NYC, Raphaela Neihausen turns 50 on Friday...
FRIDAY: Social media influencer, she appears regularly on both Instagram and TikTok, Dorothy Katz Wiggins turns 101... American-born British novelist, biographer, journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Frederic Michael Raphael turns 95... Former attorney general of New Jersey and chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, David Samson turns 87... President of the Hampton Synagogue until 2024 and former board member of the UJA-Federation of New York, Carol Levin... Historian and VP of alumni relations for MLB's New York Mets, the press box at Citi Field is named in his honor, Jay Edward Horwitz turns 81... Member of the New York State Assembly since 2005, Charles D. Lavine turns 79... Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Ester R. Fuchs turns 75... Professor of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, Henry Brem, M.D. turns 74... U.S. district court judge in South Carolina, he is the co-author of a book on the early Jews of Columbia, S.C., Judge Richard Mark Gergel turns 72... Turkish-born economist and professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Dani Rodrik turns 69... U.S. senator (R-TN) since 2021, Bill Hagerty turns 67... Home fragrance and dÃĐcor guru, Harry Slatkin turns 66... Lecturer at Purdue University, Martin J. Sweet turns 56... Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes as a journalist, Adam Goldman turns 53... VP at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, he was an AIPAC and Republican Jewish Coalition staffer who ran for Congress in 2018, Jeremy Scott Wynes... Professional tennis player for 15 years, primarily a doubles specialist, now an assistant athletic director, Scott Lipsky turns 45... Personal counsel to President Donald Trump, Boris Epshteyn turns 44... Ukrainian-born actor, she moved to Los Angeles at age 7 and has appeared in dozens of films, Mila Kunis turns 43... Opinion editor at eJewishPhilanthropy, Rachel Kohn turns 42... Internet entrepreneur and former CTO at Facebook, he is the co-founder and CEO of Quora, Adam D'Angelo turns 42... President of Anthropic, sister of the CEO, Daniela Lily Amodei turns 39... Retired lacrosse player, he played for ten seasons in Major League Lacrosse and for Team Israel in 2018, Maxwell “Max” Oren Seibald turns 39... Managing director at Marcus & Associates Executive Recruiters, Jacob Lefkowitz... Member of Knesset for Otzma Yehudit, he serves as the minister for the development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee, Yitzhak Shimon Wasserlauf turns 34... Ryan Smith... Dylan Cooper... Tim Carney...
SATURDAY: Philadelphia resident, Irvin Farber... Retired associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Stephen Breyer turns 88... Former CFO of The Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg turns 79... Founder and chairman of the Executive Committee of Limmud FSU, he has also served as treasurer of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, Chaim Chesler turns 77... Professor emeritus of Jewish education and leadership development at Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph turns 76... Economist, CPA, investment advisor and founding member of wealth advisor RVW Wealth LLC, Selwyn Gerber... Colorado resident, he is an artist and avid mountain biker, William Crary "Bill" Weidman... Chairman of Benj. E. Sherman & Sons, he is the immediate past chair of Israel Policy Forum, David A. Sherman turns 66... Orthopedic and trauma surgeon in Rome, Dr. Dario Perugia turns 64... Co-founding rabbi of Congregation Or Hadash in Sandy Springs, Ga., Rabbi Mario Karpuj... Emmy Award-winning actor, she played Grace Adler on the 11-season sitcom "Will & Grace," Debra Messing turns 58... Immediate past board chair of Holocaust Museum Houston, Elyse Spector Kalmans turns 57... Chief development officer for the Birthright Israel Foundation, Margot Ettlinger... U.S. senator (D-PA) since 2023, John Fetterman turns 57... Co-CEO and chairman of the entertainment production company Propagate, Benjamin Noah Silverman turns 56... Associate justice of the California Supreme Court since 2019, Joshua Paul Groban turns 53... Member of the House of Representatives (D-VA) for four years ending in 2023, Elaine Goodman Luria turns 51... Real estate and business law attorney in the Baltimore law firm of Rosen Neuberger Lehmann, Meir Neuberger... Senior director at Teva Pharmaceuticals, he was an international model for Armani and appeared in the Israeli versions of “The Amazing Race” and “Dancing with the Stars,” Raz Meirman-Baruch turns 49... National college football reporter for ESPN, Adam Rittenberg turns 45... Chief of staff at Los Angeles-based Bedrock, Rachel Sterne Haot turns 43... Computer scientist at MIT and podcaster, he interviews notable figures from science, technology, sports and politics, Lex Fridman turns 43... Career counsellor, Rachel Spekman... Member of the Alaska House of Representatives until 2023, now mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Grier Hayden Hopkins turns 43... Chief communications officer at AI-native cybersecurity company Tenzai, Yael Wissner-Levy... Contemporary jazz and classical recorder player, vocalist, composer and educator, Tali Rubinstein turns 42... Co-founder of Irenic Capital Management, Adam Jason Katz... Freelance designer, Talia Siegel... MLB pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds in 2015 and 2016, he played for Team Israel in the 2020 Summer Olympics, he is now a VP at a private equity firm, Jon Moscot turns 35... VP of technology policy at Retail Industry Leaders Association, Justin Goldberger... Founder and managing partner at Ezra Venture Group, Ezra Mosseri... Joe Farry... David Summer...
SUNDAY: Solicitor general of New York, Barbara Dale Underwood turns 82... Retired judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, she is currently of counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner, Shira Ann Scheindlin turns 80... Sportscaster known as the "voice of the Dallas Cowboys," Brad Sham turns 77... President and CEO of the Business Roundtable, he was previously the White House chief of staff in the Bush 43 administration, Josh Bolten turns 72... Secretary of the Maryland Department of Aging from 2015 until 2023, Rona E. Kramer turns 72... Gerald Platt... Media consultant, Sol Levine... Former commander of the Israeli Air Force and later CEO of El Al, Eliezer Shkedi turns 69... Shareholder in the Denver office of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and an AIPAC board member, Steven C. Demby... Founder of Value Retail Plc and co-owner of the NHL's New York Islanders, his sister is married to Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Scott David Malkin turns 68... Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Associated Press, Martha Mendoza turns 60... Founder of Walk Swiftly Productions, she spent 17 years on-air at ESPN/ABC and CBS covering the Super Bowl, NBA playoffs and MLB playoffs, Bonnie Bernstein turns 56... Johannesburg-born model, actor and singer-songwriter living in NYC, Caron Bernstein turns 56... Award-winning journalist, currently an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Michael Grunwald... Former lieutenant governor of Vermont, David E. Zuckerman turns 55... Member of the Knesset for the Yesh Atid party, Vladimir Beliak turns 53... Mayor of Ramat Gan, he served as a member of the Knesset and as Israel's ambassador to the OECD, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, Carmel Shama-HaCohen turns 53... Board member of the Torah School of Greater Washington, Kami Troy... Senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group, Sarah Hofstetter... Co-founder and co-CEO of The Creative Counsel, South Africa's largest advertising agency, Gil Oved turns 51... Political and public relations consultant based in Albuquerque, Jonathan Lipshutz... Producer with Reuters News Agency, Matthew J. Silverstein... Chief political analyst for "The Upshot" at The New York Times, Nathan David "Nate" Cohn turns 38... VP at BlackRock, Julian Olidort... Studio manager at Barre3 Bethesda and founder of Atom, LLC, Anna Dubinsky... Founder and CEO at Project Healthy Minds, Phillip Schermer... Argentine former professional tennis player, he has ranked as high as 8th in the world, Diego Schwartzman turns 34... Rachel Berman... Associate in the D.C. office of Eversheds Sutherland, Katherine Dolgenos O’Donnell... Member of AJR, an indie pop multi-instrumentalist trio, together with his two brothers, Jack Metzger turns 29... VP at Tier One Rankings, she was the executive assistant to the ambassador at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Galit Tassi Imbo... Director of public affairs at J Street, Cooper Boyar... Ellen Weissfeld... Marshall Cohen... Dave Jacobsen...
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