Calls for Bernie Sanders to drop out of the presidential race were growing louder Tuesday, but for the only Jewish liaison for the only Jewish candidate still standing, there was a feeling that history had been made. And couldn’t be unmade.
That meant something big to Joel Rubin, whose career has taken him from the establishment Bush and Obama administrations to the upstart, grass-roots Sanders campaign, where he did Jewish outreach for a man who seemed until Super Tuesday to have a real shot at becoming the country’s first Jewish major-party presidential nominee and — perhaps — its first Jewish president.
