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For years, Schakowsky eyed a run in Illinois's 9th congressional district, intending to run whenever incumbent Democrat Sidney R. Yates opted to retire. [8] Yates had represented the 9th district since 1949 (except for one term due unsuccessful run for the Senate in 1962), [9] Schakowsky had explored runs in 1992, 1994, and 1996 under the belief each time that Yates might retire.
In April 2021, several Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives led by Representative Jan Schakowsky wrote a letter to the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, urging him to make use of tools against antisemitism beyond the IHRA definition, including the Jerusalem Declaration and Nexus Document.
Jewish Voice for Peace Action fund (post-primary) [29] Justice Democrats [30] National Women's Political Caucus [31] Peace Action [32] Sierra Club [33] United Working Families [34] Working Families Party [35] Labor unions. Chicago Federation of Labor [4] IBEW Local 134 [5] Illinois AFL-CIO [6] International Brotherhood of Teamsters Joint ...
"The 1940s and 1950s were 'the age of self-hatred'. In effect, a bitter war broke out over questions of Jewish identity. It was a kind of 'Jewish Cold War'..." [8] in which questions of Jewish identity were contentiously debated. The use of the concept in debates over Jewish identity – for example over resistance to the integration of African ...
That was the model Creamer adopted to support his wife, Jan Schakowsky, when she first ran for Congress in 1998. Creamer and Schakowsky Campaign Manager, Jerry Morrison, put ads out across the country offering aspiring young organizers the opportunity to come to Chicago to participate in a progressive campaign for Congress and learn organizing ...
Though the question is undecided, some trace the start of a biological interpretation of Jewish origins back as far as the Spanish Inquisition. [12] A tradition of thought and ethnography premised on a hierarchy of racial distinctions, though in retrospect known to be a pseudoscience, was deeply entrenched, indeed ubiquitous, among Western scholars by the early twentieth century. [13]
Signers included Jan Schakowsky, Jerrold Nadler, and Carolyn Maloney. [3] Eventually almost 200 Members signed the Pledge, including two dozen Republicans and over a dozen Senators. In 1997, GenderPAC produced The First National Study on Transviolence , a large research project on violence against transgender and gender-variant people . [ 1 ]
"The Rhetoric of Chosenness and the Fabrication of American Jewish Identity". In Lipset, Seymour Martin (ed.). American pluralism and the Jewish community. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-88738-286-4. Daniel H. Frank, ed. (1993). A People apart: chosenness and ritual in Jewish philosophical thought. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-1631-0. (Part 1.