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> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:40 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected]
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>> The importance Jews have played in the life of Hilary Clinton
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>> Hillary Rodham Clinton’s journey has never wandered far from Jews.[image:
>> Hilary Clinton]
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>> WASHINGTON – From the man who married her grandmother to the man who
>> married her daughter, from working a room full of bar mitzvah guests on
>> behalf of her husband’s political career to headlining major pro-Israel
>> events during her own, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s journey has never wandered
>> far from Jews.
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>> Clinton’s Jewish encounters have been a natural consequence of her East
>> Coast education, her trajectory in the party favored by a substantial
>> majority of Jewish-Americans, and her embrace of the Jewish narrative of
>> triumphing over adversity and bigotry, longtime friends of the 2016
>> presidential candidate say.
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>> Sara Ehrman, whose friendship with the Democratic front-runner dates back
>> more than four decades, told JTA that the Clintons, upon arriving in
>> Arkansas in the mid-1970s, quickly established ties with leaders of the
>> state’s tiny Jewish community.
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>> “They were a smart, educated young couple … who had come down to this
>> wonderful little city,” said Ehrman, now 96, referring to Little Rock. “The
>> Jews gravitated to them. Among her best and most fervent supporters were
>> Jews.”
>>
>> The Clintons would attend seders at the homes of Jewish friends during
>> their Little Rock years, and in 1988 Bill Clinton as governor co-officiated
>> with Rabbi Zeke Palnick of Arkansas’ capital city at the Jewish wedding of
>> Richard and Sheila Bronfman.
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>> The Clintons are “both very spiritual and they tend to like to experience
>> different cultures around them,” Sheila Bronfman, who traveled the country
>> to campaign for Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and for Hillary Clinton in
>> 2008. (Plans are underway for a road trip in advance of the 2016
>> presidential election, she said.)
>>
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>> Ehrman, a longtime activist with the Democratic Party and with pro-Israel
>> groups, met Hillary Rodham during the 1972 George McGovern presidential
>> campaign.
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>> “I went down to San Antonio to run south Texas for McGovern,” Ehrman said
>> of the Democratic nominee. “We were doing voter registration,
>> Mexican-Americans. I wanted a lawyer to make sure everything we did was
>> right. I called D.C., I said ‘You gotta send a lawyer down here.’ The next
>> day, a young woman comes in, she looks 19, all in brown with Coke-bottle
>> glasses. She said, ‘I’m Hilary Rodham, the lawyer.’ And everyone in the
>> room said, ‘We don’t want a girl, we want a real lawyer.’ We immediately
>> bonded as outsiders.”
>>
>> Two years later, Rodham was hired by the U.S. House of Representatives’
>> Judiciary Committee to investigate President Nixon’s role in the Watergate
>> scandal. So she called Ehrman, asking whether she knew of cheap digs.
>> Ehrman invited her to bunk at her house, and Rodham agreed.
>>
>> After Nixon resigned, the two drove together from Washington, D.C., to
>> Fayetteville, where Bill Clinton was teaching law at the University of
>> Arkansas and where Rodham planned to join him.
>>
>> “All the way down, I would say, ‘Are you out of your mind? It’s a
>> godforsaken place, you can’t get decent food there, what are you going to
>> do?’” recalled Ehrman, speaking to JTA in her apartment on Embassy Row here.
>>
>> In Fayetteville, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham soon befriended another
>> law professor, Mort Gitelman.
>>
>> “They were both very happy to come to the bar mitzvah of my son, Eliot,”
>> Gitelman said in an email.
>>
>> Palnick’s son Lazar, who attended the bar mitzvah, remembers Hillary
>> Rodham and Bill Clinton working the room for political support. And when
>> his rabbi father would travel to Fayetteville for pastoral work, the
>> teenage Lazar would ride along to help leaflet neighborhoods in support of
>> Clinton, who would go on to lose his 1974 congressional bid to the
>> Republican incumbent.
>>
>> During Hillary Clinton’s 2000 U.S. Senate campaign, Paul Fray, Bill
>> Clinton’s campaign manager in the ’74 race, told a writer that Hillary
>> Rodham, in a heated argument on election night as it became clear that
>> Clinton would be defeated, called Fray a “f***ing Jew bastard.” Both
>> Clintons have vehemently denied the charge, and noted that they had fallen
>> out with Fray after the campaign. They also said that they had no idea Fray
>> was one-eighth Jewish.
>>
>> A year after the loss, the couple were married by a Methodist minister in
>> their Fayetteville living room. The following year, Bill Clinton became the
>> state’s attorney general, and two years after that he was elected governor
>> of Arkansas.
>>
>> “I remember them coming for seder at our house,” said Lazar Palnick, now
>> a lawyer for the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania. “The Clintons fit very
>> much in with a group of people who cared about feeding the poor, educating
>> people, making sure everyone gets an opportunity.”
>>
>> Hillary Clinton’s maternal grandmother, Della, who was divorced, had
>> remarried a Jewish man, Max Rosenberg. And the presidential hopeful has
>> credited Rosenberg with encouraging her mother, Dorothy, and her
>> grandmother to reconcile years after Della sent Dorothy at age 8 to live
>> with her strict and forbidding parents.
>>
>> In her first autobiography, “Living History,” Hillary Clinton recalls,
>> when she was 10, noticing numbers tattooed on the arm of an acquaintance of
>> her father. Hugh Rodham explained that Nazis had tattooed his acquaintance
>> when he was a prisoner of war, and told her how the Nazis also tattooed
>> Jews, whom they murdered en masse.
>>
>> “I knew that my grandmother Della’s husband, Max Rosenberg, was Jewish,
>> and I was horrified that someone like him could have been murdered just
>> because of his religion,” Clinton wrote in 2003.
>>
>> By the time Bill Clinton was running for president in 1992, the youthful
>> governor and his wife had become favorites among Jewish Democrats. Ehrman
>> described a presidential campaign headquarters buzzing with Jewish
>> activists.
>>
>> “The Jews loved the Clintons so much, they were coming from around the
>> country,” she said. “If they couldn’t come, they would send food – the
>> whole staff would end up in the Jewish room because there were bagels from
>> New York, Danish pastries, Goldenberg’s peanut chews.”
>>
>> The “Jewish room” she describes refers to the area where Jewish activists
>> would congregate.
>>
>> Steve Rabinowitz, a campaign press aide who went on to become a deputy
>> communications director in the White House, recalls 100 people coming to a
>> Yom Kippur break-fast he organized in Little Rock during the campaign.
>>
>> The Jewish sensibility permeated the Clinton White House, where the first
>> couple inaugurated the annual Hanukkah party in 1993, in part because of
>> the abundance of Jewish staffers. They included communications chief Ann
>> Lewis, senior adviser Rahm Emanuel and Rabinowitz. There was Jack Lew, a
>> special assistant to President Clinton who would go on to become Treasure
>> secretary under President Barack Obama, and Ron Klain, the chief of staff
>> to Vice President Al Gore and now Obama’s Ebola czar.
>>
>> “I said, ‘You’re having a Christmas party, you’ve got to have a Hanukkah
>> party,’ ” Ehrman recalled. (Unlike the formal Hanukkah parties inaugurated
>> by President George W. Bush and continued by Obama, these were for staffers
>> and their families, although on occasion children from Washington-area
>> Jewish day schools made an appearance.)
>>
>> The Clintons’ first Israel visit, with a church group in 1981, also
>> included the West Bank. Approaching Bill Clinton’s presidential run in
>> 1992, they reached out to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and
>> AIPAC helped set up a meeting with Martin Indyk, a former staffer who
>> founded the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank. The trio
>> hit it off — the meeting ran hours overtime as both Clintons peppered Indyk
>> with questions, according to a source who was present. Indyk went on to
>> become the U.S. ambassador to Israel and Clinton’s top Middle East peace
>> negotiator.
>>
>> Bill Clinton’s embrace of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the
>> Palestine Liberation Organization — initiated by the government of Israeli
>> Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin — further strengthened the couple’s ties to
>> national Jewish groups. Hillary Clinton’s eight years in the Senate
>> representing New York cemented those ties. Her pro-Israel advocacy included
>> exposing incitement in Palestinian media and helping to win full membership
>> for Magen David Adom in the International Committee of the Red Cross. She
>> also blamed the Palestinians, and not the Israelis, for the collapse of the
>> 2000 Camp David peace talks and the subsequent second intifada.
>>
>> Her advocacy followed the headline-making fallout from an appearance by
>> Hillary Clinton in 1999 at an event with Suha Arafat, the wife of the
>> Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Speaking in Arabic, Suha Arafat accused
>> Israel of poisoning Arab children. Clinton, ostensibly listening to a
>> translation on headphones, did not react and kissed Suha Arafat after her
>> remarks. Clinton claimed that she did not hear the reference to poisoning;
>> she noted that others in the room missed it, too.
>>
>> The subsequent tabloid attention rattled her, coming just as Clinton was
>> launching her Senate campaign, and helped shape the political caution that
>> has come to define her.
>>
>> “I had learned a hard lesson about the hazards of merging my role in the
>> international diplomatic arena with the complexities of local New York
>> politics,” she wrote in “Living History.”
>>
>> After winning the Senate seat in 2000, Clinton repeatedly secured the
>> Tuesday-morning slot at national Jewish conferences for AIPAC and the
>> Jewish Federations of North America, among others – a slot reserved for the
>> most respected pro-Israel figure in Congress. Clinton chose the annual
>> AIPAC conference in 2008 to concede the primaries to Obama.
>>
>> For her 2016 bid, Clinton has lined up pro-Israel funding powerhouses who
>> helped fuel her ’08 bid, like entertainment mogul Haim Saban, and has added
>> some of Obama’s most prominent Jewish bundlers, notably movie executive
>> Jeffrey Katzenberg. Lewis, the former White House communications chief,
>> leads her Jewish outreach.
>>
>> There were other alliances, less noticeable back in the 1990s, that would
>> also be consequential, at least personally.
>>
>> The 1992 election swept into Congress the largest class of Jewish
>> lawmakers ever, 51. Among them was Rep. Marjorie Margolies, D-Pa., who
>> served a single term before being ousted in the Republican takeover of the
>> House in ’94. Her opponents raised the issue of Margolies’ tie-breaking
>> vote in 1993 passing Bill Clinton’s unpopular tax bill.
>>
>> The Clintons, known for their loyalty to those who fall on their sword
>> for them, campaigned for Margolies in her 2014 congressional bid; she lost
>> in the primaries. Neither Hillary Clinton’s office nor Margolies responded
>> to requests for comment.
>>
>> Margolies’ son, Marc Mezvinsky, met the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea, when
>> they were children at a political retreat, and fell in love when they met
>> again at Stanford University. At their wedding, co-officiating was Rabbi
>> James Ponet, the head rabbi at Yale.
>>
>> Ponet chatted only briefly with Hillary Clinton at the wedding, but got
>> to know her more recently at a memorial for the philanthropist Edgar
>> Bronfman. Ponet in an interview with JTA said Clinton spoke with
>> sensitivity about Bronfman’s efforts to make Swiss banks accountable for
>> Holocaust-era Jewish assets.
>>
>> “There’s a sense of foundational connection to the Jewish people and a
>> sense of the responsibility to the Jewish people in the world,” he said.
>>
>> Ponet also described a pre-wedding meeting with the young couple and
>> discussing the huppah. The rabbi advised the couple that any cloth with
>> meaning to the family could serve as a wedding canopy.
>>
>> “Marc said, ‘My bar mitzvah tallit, that could be used, but I don’t know
>> where it is’,” Ponet recalled. “Chelsea said, ‘I know where it is.’”
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