Miriam Laing (FL): ‘We’ve Literally Never Experienced Anything of this Magnitude In Our Lifetimes’
Miriam Laing (50), a Democrat from Lake Worth, FL, has spent most of her career working for nonprofit Jewish organizations. An activist since childhood, she is...
Stephanie Wudarski (PA): ‘I Started to Exhibit Symptoms Myself and Realized How Serious This May Be’
Stephani Wudarski (30), a Democrat from Pittsburgh, PA, does not belong to a synagogue but attends High Holy Day services with her family and went to...
Janice Weiner (IA): ‘My Community Has Been Working Hard for Weeks to Prepare’
Janice Weiner (61), a Democrat from Iowa City, IA, is president-elect of her synagogue, Agudas Achim, and on its safety committee, an area where she gained...
Bud Hockenberg (IA): ‘The Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic has Increased My Support for Him’
Bud Hockenberg (92), a Republican from Des Moines IA, is the former president of the Des Moines Jewish Federation and a founding member of what...
Mark Goldhaber (NC): ‘It Has Made Me Feel Better About the President’
Mark Goldhaber (67), a Republican from Raleigh, NC, is active in the Jewish Federation and AIPAC. He previously worked for a Republican member of Congress and...
Nina Stanley (OH): ‘Trump is a True Threat to Our Wellbeing’
Nina Stanley (68) is a Democrat from Cincinnati, OH. Her “very liberal” leanings haven’t budged since May 4, 1970, when bullets fired by the Ohio National...
Andrew Smith (OH): ‘The Federal Response Has Been Pretty Good Under the Circumstances’
Andrew Smith (57), a Republican from Columbus, OH, grew up in Maine where he was raised Conservative, “because that’s pretty much all we had up there.”...
Alan Zimmerman (VA): ‘This Tragic Failure Will Define Trump’s Pitiful Legacy’
Alan Zimmerman (61), a Democrat from Charlottesville, VA, was president of Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right march in August 2017. Zimmerman...
Beth Bendheim (VA): ‘The Federal Response is Unacceptable’
Beth Bendheim (50), a Democrat from Richmond, VA, was the development director for a Jewish day school in Richmond prior to working in finance. She also...
Ariana Mentzel (MI): ‘The President’s Remarks Have Been Ridiculous’
Ariana Mentzel (34), a Democrat from Beverly Hills, MI, leads college students in conversations about anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Detroit Center for...
Stuart Baum (MI): ‘Many of My Peers are Failing to Take the Threat Seriously’
Stuart Baum (22), a Democrat from Detroit, MI, attended Jewish day school growing up and is a recent graduate of Wayne State University where he served...
Voters Disagree on Administration’s Response to Coronavirus, but Agree on Seriousness of the Crisis
With the nationwide near-total shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic, we asked participants in the Jewish Political Voices Project (JPVP) what they thought about...