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I know there are a number of frum elected officals, other then in Israel I was wondering where else visable frum [like wearing shaytil / yalmulkes] people have gotten elected. I know there are quite a number in NY and NJ.
The frum community is much better off — and more effective in the halls of power — finding a gentile that we elect into office, that works for our communal needs, than to have a Jewish or frum person serve in office for us.
Ujm, i agree that that’s usually the caae, but there have been some frum politicians that have been true שלוחי דרבנן
Jason Stein in Cleveland.
Yitzy Schliefer in Baltimore.
When you add the “visible” caveat to frum, relatively few outside the NY/NJ metro area. Very small numbers of elected/appointed officials in Maryland, Illinois, Florida, Colorado and Florida and in those cases just one or two, unless you get down the very local board levels where you may have several more.
Dear Gadol,
Yeah, though orthodox or maybe even conservative but visibly Jewish without necessarily frum dress is relatively much more prevalent outside the Greater New York Area.
“UJM I guess you dont know how to read..”
1) Maybe he knows how to read but chose not to
2) Maybe he read and is not addressing the question
3) Maybe that’s his way of addressing the question
4) Maybe I don’t know what I’m talking aboutMe……
Not currently holding an elected post, gave that up when I turned 62, but on a Town Commission, elected member of the Democratic Town Committee, delegate to Sate and National Party Conventions for 40+ years.
In my previous town, I served two terms elected to the Legislative Council
In my current Town of more than 30 years:
I was elected and reelected to the Town Council
Elected and served a 5 year term on Planning and Zoning Commission
Elected and served a 4 year term on Board of Education
This is in Connecticut.My eldest sister was elected and served a term on the School Committee (what they call Board of Education) in her Boston area town, Her eldest daughter was elected and served a term on their Town Council, she did not seek reelection as she was hired as a school employee and it would have been a conflict of interest.
CS: I read it quite well. I simply decided to ignore what you asked for.
CS: I’m not a journalist.
“I’m not a journalist…
Azoy. And we thought you were on the staff of The Forward.Maryland has a Frum delegate in the State House.
Dalya Attar graduated Bais Yaakov then became a Lawyer.There are many Jews who occupy a position of politician’s in-laws. Clinton, Trump, Biden ..
Lakewood NJ has many jewish elected officials on many different levels from township positions to senators to board positions
Dear Common,
There was a write in for an empty seat on the BOE last year. He lost reelection this year.
Commonsaychel
Yes
There’s a Jewish board member on the Jackson board of Education his name is Tzvi HermanThe democrat he was running against is also frum but it seems like he suffered “the Biden effect”
Does anyone regard ANY yid serving in Congress as borderline frum or “observant” to any degree. Since Joe Lieberman, not sure if any of the 535 members would be regarded as living a religious lifestyle in minimal terms of shomer shabbos and kashruth?
Joe Lieberman, who originally called himself Orthodox, later changed his description to not be Orthodox not rather traditional, as his public positions often were against Torah Judaism.
Pirkei Avos has a comment regarding public officials.
Commonsaychel,
Either that or he didn’t want to be alienated by his democrat base so he didn’t want to make it an issue
I’ve been elected to the board of ed locally and appointed to some standing state wide commissions and currently sit on the school district curriculum advisory committee. Like CT I’ve attended political conventions as a delegate, (national and state wide). I also held statewide office for my union, and later sat on it’s finance committee.
CS Just like when someone is elected to the board of a Jewish concern, be it educational or charitable. By you those votes wouldn’t count because they are closed elections. Ok I can see where you are coming from.
Commonsaychel,
If he voted for trump he doesn’t want his democrat base to know that
He has said that the reason he is on the democrat ticket is because they hold the majority and you can’t get things done being in the minority
In addition to Sen. Lieberman, former Congressman Peter Deutsch is orthodox. After serving in Congress he moved to Israel.
Members of Congress who have belonged to orthodox synagogues include James Schuer, who represented at times parts of the Bronx and Queens; Arlen Specter, who represented Pennsylvania in the US Senate, and current MD Sen. Ben Cardin.
maybe we need to expand what “visible” is – this does not have to be a tall hat (Lincoln and Kennedy had that also) but might be how people walk, talk, and behave. Kiso, koso, vekaaso.
Montreal has a Chassidic (Vizhnitzer) woman borough councilor. Her name is Mindy Pollak and she speaks English, French and Yiddish, wears a sheitel and did not shake hands with men during her campaign. She was approached to run for the federal Parliament but turned it down because she wants to finish what she started.
UJM, Agudat Yisrael was represented in the Polish Sejm. Rabbi Meir Shapiro was a member for several years but stepped down to concentrate on building his yeshiva.
Correction: Pollak is not married (or at least was not when she ran) so apparently it is her hair.
Avi: What is your objection? What Pirkei Avos says about this?
R Mordechai Dubin was in Latvian parliament
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