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Our senior political reporter, Jacob Kornbluh, is in Harrisburg to cover the inauguration of Josh Shapiro (above) as Pennsylvania’s third Jewish governor. Here’s what’s he’s watching this week …
Shapiro plans to visit the Alexander Grass Campus for Jewish Life in Harrisburg on Monday to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He is scheduled to take the oath of office Tuesday using three Bibles, including one that was rescued from the deadly attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of senators are traveling this week to Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, Arab countries that have recently normalized relations with Israel.
And in Washington, New York Democratic Reps. Daniel Goldman and Ritchie Torres sent a letter to Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy demanding that he cooperate with investigations into Rep. George Santos’s lies. A recent poll found that 72% of voters in Santos’ New York district are concerned about his false claim to be Jewish and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, and Rep. Max Miller of Ohio, one of two Jewish House Republicans, has joined calls for Santos to resign.
Plus: Toby Gotesman, a painter whose work focuses on the Holocaust and who briefly helped raise money for Santos, spoke to our Mira Fox about her feelings of betrayal. Read the interview ➤
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