The Republican Jewish Coalition has launched an ad campaign titled “I Used to be a Democrat.”
The series of ads depicts the political journeys of Jewish Democrats who are now Republicans.
“The ads reflect the movement we’ve witnessed for years: More and more American Jews express serious misgivings with the direction of the Democratic Party,” said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks. “Again and again they are finding that the Republican Party better represents their concerns, ranging from national security to the well-being of the State of Israel.”
The ads will run in major Jewish newspapers across the country through late spring or early summer.
Two suburban New York Jewish buildings were damaged by fires in unrelated incidents.
Arson is not suspected in either of the fires that broke out early Tuesday morning, Newsday reported.
One that began in the storage area of the Adolph Schreiber Hebrew Academy in Monsey damaged the school’s synagogue but did not burn its six Torah scrolls.
A fire at the Temple Israel complex in Great Neck on Long Island destroyed a second-floor ballroom. Two classrooms below also suffered water damage.
Some 200 firefighters battled the blaze, which began when a pile of sawdust ignited. The sawdust was from a floor that had been sanded.
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