House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made at least three pilgrimages to upstate New York recently to confer with Orthodox Jewish leaders who head voting blocs critical to swing-district Republicans. The trips come as McCarthy eyes a path to saving his razor-thin five seat House majority — much of which he owes to a red wave that hit New York, even while skipping the rest of the country. “We have a lot in common, when you think about it,” McCarthy, 58 and a devout Baptist, said of his rapport with leading rabbis. “The more they look at the policies Republicans have...