Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spent decades telling Jewish audiences that his name meant something important. In a 2010 interview with Jewish radio host Nachum Segal, Schumer said it “comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe Hashem gave me that name. One of my roles, very important in the United States Senate, is to be a shomer — to be the shomer Yisrael. And I will continue to be that with every bone in my body.” On the Senate floor in 2024, in what was billed...
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