Discussing Bernie Sanders often feels like peering into the examination room where a Rorschach test is being implemented: Discussing the Vermont senator’s Jewish identity and his politics spawns more questions than it answers. Is he Jewish enough? Is he too Jewish? And what does he think about Israel or wielding power as president anyway?
Luckily for us, Senator Sanders recently devoted an entire essay to the topic of his identity and views in the relaunched Jewish Currents, a leftist Jewish publication. And while much digital ink will be spilled on Twitter on the usual topics such as how seriously Senator Sanders takes anti-Semitism on the left compared to the right, if he is too pro-Israel or not pro-Israel enough, and if his politics are sufficiently rooted in Jewish values, more interesting is what the essay revealed about what policies we might expect from a Sanders administration.
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