Halie Soifer is CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. She previously served as national security adviser to then-Sen. Kamala Harris, senior policy adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and foreign policy adviser to Sen. Chris Coons.
Halie Soifer
By Halie Soifer
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Opinion Trump is illegally using Jerusalem as a backdrop for his reality show
Later today, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will address the Republican National Convention from Israel. Violating multiple State Department regulations bearing his own name, Secretary Pompeo’s speech demonstrates two realities of the Trump administration: First, Trump has a reckless disregard for the law. This speech, taped during Pompeo’s official State Department travel to Israel, is…
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Community Racial justice will drive Jewish votes in November
Over the Fourth of July weekend, President Trump made a calculated decision to give two incendiary speeches depicting a culture war in America. Painting a dark picture of “us versus them,” the president exploited our national holiday as an opportunity to defend Confederate symbols that are synonymous with racism. Trump declared at Mt. Rushmore that…
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Community This November, our children are watching
In November 2016, I struggled to explain what the election of Donald Trump meant to my three young boys who had wanted to see a “girl” president. At the time, my oldest – then six – asked me if it meant we could ever leave the country again, out of fear that Trump’s border wall…
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Opinion One Year Since Pittsburgh: The Danger of False Equivalence on Anti-Semitism
On Wednesday, President Trump visited Pittsburgh to attend an energy conference, where Jewish protestors interrupted his speech demanding he “stop endangering Jews.” In the city where a year earlier 11 worshipers were tragically killed in the deadliest attack on Jews in American history at the Tree of Life Synagogue, the protest was met with ridicule…
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