coach wrote:
carmine9 wrote:
Oh oh for me.
WH says it will keep it's pledge of naming a Black woman.
Can they find a Jewish one?
Well someone here will call her a cryptoJew
From Jpost:
It doesn't hurt that Sotomayor, 54, is a poster child for strong Jewish-Hispanic relations. In 1986, when she was in private legal practice, she joined one of the first young leadership tours of Israel sponsored by Project Interchange, which is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee. Sotomayor so enjoyed the country - its immigrant culture, its popular music influenced heavily by Jewish immigrants from Argentina and Brazil - that she made a return visit in 1996 when she was a federal judge, and recently joined a Project Interchange US-Israel forum on immigration. In the process, she formed a lifelong friendship with Project Interchange founder Debbie Berger and her husband, Paul, who attended her swearing-in as a Manhattan appeals court judge in 1998. "She enjoyed Israel not just from an intellectual perspective, she liked the music and the people," Paul Berger told JTA. Richard Foltin, the legislative director for the AJC, said her background naturally played a role in how the Jewish community would welcome her.
Perhaps this is why this is said about Justice Sotomayor.