Slotkin wants "mandating Holocaust education". Re-education camp? Zionist propaganda forced education? AIPAC money. Could be a dual citizen.
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
Elissa Slotkin, the Jewish Democrat chosen to rebut Trump, has a riveting family immigration story
The Michigan senator’s great-grandfather was a Jewish boy from Minsk who arrived in the United States in 1899 without a passport.
Samuel, a hustler from birth, bristled at the family’s expectations and sought to leave Russia to make his fortune in the United States. Too young to get a passport, he decided to emigrate despite his parents’ wishes, swimming across a river to evade German and Russian border police, and hitchhiked across Germany to Holland. The year was 1900, and he was 14.
“When Slotkin, with a dollar eighty left in his pocket, sailed from Holland to America, which at that time admitted immigrants without passports, he had neither the intention nor the desire to become the head of a meat-packing company and make millions,” the profile says. Instead, he thought of himself as an artist but fell into business through the influence of an older brother, then embarked on a series of ventures that steadily expanded his reach in the meat industry.
Samuel Slotkin had come during a peak period in a wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States. At least seven of his eight siblings arrived Stateside, according to genealogical records, and his father was buried in New Jersey.
In 1924, Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act, severely limiting immigration and effectively closing U.S. doors to Jews from Eastern Europe on the eve of mass persecution. Most Koidanov Hasids were murdered in the Holocaust.
Elissa Slotkin ran into the great-grandson of Samuel’s brother on the way to being sworn in. She took her oath of office on a book of Torah commentary by women published by the Reform Jewish movement, with which her family has been affiliated.
Slotkin had begun her career working at the CIA, where she served multiple tours in Iraq. In 2018, a wave year for Democrats during Trump’s first term, she won election to Congress, where she emphasized bipartisanship, occasionally crossing party lines to vote with Republicans. A recipient of support from PACs affiliated with the pro-Israel lobbyAIPAC, she has voted since Oct. 7, 2023, for Israel-related measures that divided her Democratic colleagues, such as to fund Israel’s military and to equate anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
As a member of Congress, Slotkin proposed mandating Holocaust education as a strategy to combat the rise of domestic extremism. She was inspired in part by the neo-Nazi and Holocaust-related symbols that appeared during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot by supporters of Trump.
https://www.jta.org/2025/03/04/politics/elissa-slotkin-jewish-democrat-delivering-the-response-to-trump-comes-from-a-riveting-immigrant-story