NYT does a very insightful piece about Bernie's Judiasm

[jillan]

It's an interesting read addressing this from different aspects.

Snips -

As important to Mr. Sanders’s outlook was the Holocaust’s impact on his family. Three of his father’s siblings — two brothers and a sister — were slaughtered by the Germans, and other relatives perished.

In 2013, the Sanders brothers traveled to their father’s hometown, Slopnice, a rural village 50 miles southeast of Krakow, a visit tinged with nostalgia as well as sadness.

The thousand-year history of Polish Jewry was marked by periods of tolerance and well-being but also by waves of brutal anti-Semitism. Many Poles hid and rescued Jews during the Holocaust, but others aided in the Nazi annihilation campaign that killed 90 percent of Poland’s Jews.

Today, Senator Sanders does not regularly attend any synagogue in Washington or Vermont, though he does show up for rituals like the yahrzeit — the anniversary of a death — of the father of a close friend, Richard Sugarman, a philosophy professor at the University of Vermont.

As a senator, Mr. Sanders has supported a two-state solution guaranteeing Israel’s right to exist as well as a Palestinian homeland, and colleagues in Congress say his view tends to echo the Israeli left wing. When Hamas fired rockets from Gaza into Israeli towns, he condemned the attacks, but he also criticized Israel for what he said was a disproportionate military response.

He supported last year’s deal to end sanctions against Iran in exchange for its dismantling of the infrastructure the United States believed would give it the capacity to make nuclear bombs. Some Jewish members of Congress, notably Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, criticized the deal as not doing enough to stop Iran’s nuclear development and thus putting Israel at risk.

And some Jewish voters believe it would not take much for anti-Semitism to surface in the United States, as it has in corners of Europe.

Mr. Greenberg’s 22-year-old son, Josh, who plans to become a rabbi and is a senior at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, said of Mr. Sanders’s Jewish background, “Some hateful people might bring that up.”

“It wouldn’t be hard,” he added, “for it to be considered a bad thing.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/us/politics/bernie-sanders-jewish.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Thank you to the NYT for discussing this & for exposing what we Bernie supporters already know. There is an ugliness out there that keeps bubbling to the surface because Bernie is a Jew .