Pretty wild the stories about this socialist candidate in NYC. "She has already been outed as a former Republican, and now a state senate candidate is under fire for neglecting to report her income as a nanny and leading an anti-abortion group in college." nydailynews.com/new-york/brook…
She also has described herself as an immigrant and a Jew but according her brother in this piece she was born in Miami and raised Christian. >> “We were born in Miami, both of us,” Alex Salazar told Tablet. tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
More from her brother via Tablet: “There was nobody in our immediate family who was Jewish … my father was not Jewish, we were not raised Jewish,” he said.
Also: "Self-proclaimed democratic socialist Julia Salazar, who is running for state Senate from Brooklyn, was a registered Republican before moving to New York and only became a Dem a year ago, records show." nydailynews.com/news/politics/…
Anyway, it's obviously the case that people's views change over time and it's very common for young people to leave college w wildly different views than they entered, and that people w tenuous or no religious beliefs can come to explore them during that time as well.
Her own explanation: "I felt Jewish, I was committed to Judaism and remain committed to Judaism....Even if the gatekeepers of Jewishness want to deny my Jewishness, that doesn’t really upset me." timesofisrael.com/amid-controver…
[Deleted/reposting to keep threaded] Two things I will say: If you are born abroad to U.S. citizens, even if one was once a foreign citizen but no longer is at the time of your birth, you are not an immigrant. You are a U.S. citizen from birth. The same as if born in the U.S.A.
The other is that she is correct: Jewish religious authorities would by + large not consider her Jewish. forward.com/news/breaking-… And she's issued a campaign statement suggesting Jews who believe in traditional definitions of who is Jewish are "bigoted" salazarforsenate.com/2018/08/statem…
