Posted on 04/19/2024 5:45:35 AM PDT by TigerClaws
US President Joe Biden filled the months before Inauguration Day lining up a slate of Cabinet secretaries, assistants and advisers, many of them Jewish.
Biden’s choices reflect a diverse cross-section of American Jewry and possess expertise gleaned from decades of experience in government, science and medicine and law.
Here’s a rundown of the Jewish names you should know as the Biden administration begins. Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State
Blinken, a longtime Biden adviser with an extensive diplomacy resume, is the stepson of a Holocaust survivor whose stories shaped his worldview and subsequently his policy decisions, including in the Middle East. He holds mainstream Democratic views about Israel and said during his confirmation hearing Tuesday that he wants the US to reenter the Iran nuclear deal — and that he would consult with Israel on Iran policy.
David Cohen, CIA Deputy Director
Cohen, who has long been involved in Jewish causes and issues, will occupy the job he held under President Barack Obama. He does not require confirmation, meaning that Biden’s CIA has a top expert in Iran issues from Day One.
Merrick Garland, Attorney General
Garland was blocked from joining the Supreme Court in the last year of the Obama administration. Now, he’ll require Senate confirmation to become the country’s top lawyer. In his speech after being nominated, he credited his grandparents, who fled anti-Semitism in Europe before coming to the US.
Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence
Haines was deputy director of the CIA under Obama and Biden reportedly considered her to run that agency. Her mother was the Jewish painter Adrian Rappin (originally Rappaport), and her non-Jewish father once wrote in an account about a trip with Haines to Israel that the nominee identifies as Jewish.
Ronald Klain, Chief of Staff
Klain, a longtime Biden aide who was the president-elect’s first major appointment in November, was previously chief of staff to Biden in his vice president days and to Vice President Al Gore. He has maintained ties with his childhood synagogue in Indianapolis, where he famously learned multiple Torah portions for his bar mitzvah, and has spoken about his commitment to raising Jewish children.
Eric Lander, Office of Science and Technology Policy director
Lander, a leading geneticist, will require Senate confirmation after Biden elevated his position to the Cabinet level. After he was criticized for toasting James Watson, the scientist who is credited with discovering the shape of DNA and who also expressed racist and sexist views, Lander said he, too, had been the subject of anti-Semitic comments by Watson.
Rachel Levine, deputy health secretary
Levine, raised in a Conservative Jewish home in Massachusetts, is Pennsylvania’s health secretary. She is the first known transgender person to be nominated for a position that requires Senate confirmation.
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security
Mayorkas, 60, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, was born in Cuba to a Cuban Jewish father and Romanian Jewish mother who survived the Holocaust. He has worked closely with Jewish groups and spoken often about the specific threats facing American Jews. An array of Jewish groups sought a swift confirmation given the threat of extremist violence surrounding the presidential transition, but a Republican senator who supported overturning the election results blocked that possibility on Tuesday.
Anne Neuberger, National Security Agency cybersecurity director
An Orthodox Jew originally from Brooklyn and educated through college in Orthodox schools, Neuberger has worked at the NSA for more than a decade. She helped establish the US Cyber Command and worked as chief risk officer, where she led the agency’s election security efforts for the 2018 midterms.
Wendy Sherman, deputy secretary of state
Sherman was the lead negotiator for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and took the lead in advocating for the agreement with the Jewish and pro-Israel communities, later describing tensions with Israel and some American Jewish groups over the deal as “very, very painful.” She has also played a role in hewing the Democratic Party platform to traditional pro-Israel lines.
Janet Yellen, Treasury secretary
Yellen already made history as the first woman chair of the Federal Reserve, but now she has been appointed to be the first female Treasury secretary. The respected centrist was one of three Jews featured in a 2016 Trump attack ad that reflected longstanding anti-Semitic tropes.
Also interesting that millions of Arab Americans would vote for this administration.
the smart one - Ron Klain - got the heck out.
*Gasp*
You’re not supposed to notice!!
Hint: Biden didn’t pick a single person in his administration cept maybe for the guy who cleans his suits
Biden only taps the top enemies of Israel - e.g., liberal Jews.
Soros is a Jew.
Eggzackly.
ALL of them, every single one, is a Golden Calf worshipper.
In other words they are ALL Bolshevik JINO’s. /spit
Calling the names on that list “Jewish” is like calling Liz Cheney, Nicole Wallace, Adam Kinzinger, Jeb Bush, and Meghan McCain conservative
A Jew is someone who lives according to the tenants of YWHW, and the majority of practicing Jews are Zionists, which the Biden “Jews: are not. They detest Bibi Nethanyahu who they attempt to destroy by supporting their fellow leftist Bolsheviks who are leftists in Israeli politics. Witness Schuer publicly calling for the ouster of Bibi Nethanyahu.
So when this writer claims that the Biden administration is full of Jews, when you scratch the surface of the Biden Jews they are not supportive if the overall Jewish community which has had a relationship to YHWH for over three thousand years.These Biden “Jews” are a destructive aberration.
What a laugh that Biden claims he has Jewry in his stable while simultaneously supporting Hamas and the SOROS funded protesters against Israel in Michigan and elsewhere,NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROME THE TRUTH.
“Is this why they ignore Joe? Israel knows they’ve got administration report regardless of what Joe says?”
Naa, these Jews HATE Israel almost as much as Jews in our Universities. The Jews that love Israel are far more conservative than anyone that could work for Biden. But Jews overall (in the general public) have money, and don’t mind spending it on politicians, and the money works - which was why NY City was able to elect Rudy and Bloomberg, both Republicans in a 90% Democrat city. In that case, the Jews in Brooklyn got sick of being attacked by blacks.
“Also interesting that millions of Arab Americans would vote for this administration.”
Arabs go where the power is for them, and right now it’s the Democrats, as the Democrats have NO PROBLEM importing more Arabs by the millions, and that only makes them stronger, as we’re seeing in Michigan and Minnesota, and soon many other states. Most (obviously not all) Republicans, however, are on to this game and would greatly limit their immigration, if they somehow got enough power to do so.
(but I know, Trump is too just TOO BRASH, at least for some here)
“A Jew is someone who lives according to the tenants...”
“someone who lives...”????
You mean how a person identifies?
You are getting into the physics of transgenderism.
No, a Jew is someone born of Jewish parents.
Come to think of it, saying that that the Democrats are controlled by Jews is convenient, but the FACTS are that many Jews are both very smart and determined Communists in this country (a combination that is hard to find in just about any other culture), and this is PERFECT for a political entity intent on imposing this ideology on us (Communism).
If Bolivians, for example, were as smart and hard-core Communists as Jews (at least many of them), then Biden’s Administration would be full of Bolivians.
Flashback: All the self loathing Jews Biden has tapped for top roles in his new administration
There, fixed it
Isnt BLINKEN JEWISH?
This story was before Biden’s administration began.
Yes, Blinken is Jewish according to this story:
Biden says don’t attack Iran and this same week — when his request is completely ignored — his administration is pushing through aid for Israel as part of the Ukraine package.
Wonder what the Muslims in Michigan will vote for come November? More of this?
Hell, I didn’t know Yellen was Jewish. I knew about all the others.
Alan Leventhal U.S. Ambassador to Denmark
Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security
Amos Hochstein Bureau of Energy Resources Special Envoy
Amy Gutmann U.S. Ambassador to Germany
Anne Neuberger Deputy National Security Adviser for Cybersecurity
Avril Haines Director of National Intelligence
Constance Milstein U.S. Ambassador to Malta
Dan Shapiro Adviser on Iran (2021-2023), Senior Advisor for Regional
Integration (2023), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy (2023-2024)
Daniel Rosenblum U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan
David Cohen CIA Deputy Director
David Cohen U.S. Ambassador to Canada
David Kessler Co-chair of the COVID-19 Advisory Board and Head of Operation Warp Speed
David Pressman U.S. Ambassador to Hungary
Deborah Lipstadt Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism
Edward Siskel White House Counsel
Ellen Germain U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues
Eric Garcetti U.S. Ambassador to India
Eric Lander Science and Technology Adviser
Gary Gensler Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman*
Genine Macks Fidler National Council on the Humanities
Jack Lew U.S. Ambassador to Israel (replaced Thomas Nides)
Jack Markell U.S. Ambassador to Italy and San Marino
Janet Yellin Secretary of Treasury
Jared Bernstein Council of Economic Advisers
Jed Kolko Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs at the Department of Commerce
Jeffrey Zients COVID-19 Response Coordinator (2021-2023), Chief of Staff (2023)
Jennifer Klein Co-chair Council on Gender Policy
Jessica Rosenworcel Chair of the Federal Communications Commission
Jonathan Kanter Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division
Jonathan Kaplan U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
Mandy Cohen Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2023) replaced Rochelle Walensky
Marc Nathanson U.S. Ambassador to Norway
Marc Ostfield U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay
Marc Stanley U.S. Ambassador to Argentina
Mark Gitenstein U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
Merrick Garland Attorney General
Michael Adler U.S. Ambassador to Belgium
Michèle Taylor U.S. Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council
Mira Resnick State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Security
Ned Price** State Department Spokesperson
Polly Trottenberg Deputy Secretary of Transportation
Rachel Levine Deputy Health Secretary
Rahm Emanuel U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Randi Charno Levine U.S. Ambassador to Portugal
Roberta Jacobson National Security Council “border czar”
Rochelle Walensky Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021 - resigned July 2023)
Ron Klain Chief of Staff (2021-2023), replaced by Jeffrey Zients
Sharon Kleinbaum Commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
Shelley Greenspan White House liaison to the Jewish community
Stephanie Pollack Deputy Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (resigned February 2023)
Steven Dettelbach Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Stuart Eizenstat Special Adviser on Holocaust Issues
Tony Blinken Secretary of State
Wendy Sherman Deputy Secretary of State (resigned July 2023)
Yael Lempert U.S. Ambassador to Jordan
Would be better if only devote Christians had political power
And Nancy Pelosi is a devout Catholic.
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