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Vance’s Jewish chief of staff shares his approach to right-wing antisemitism, new profile reveals

JL;DR SUMMARY Jacob Reses, chief of staff to Vice President JD Vance, is revealed in a New York magazine profile as a key Jewish figure embracing the current reshaping of the Republican Party by Christian nationalists. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Republican PartyJewish IdentityTrump AdministrationChristian NationalismRight Wing PoliticsPolitical StrategyJewish ConservativesJd VanceJacob Reses

Places mentioned

New Jersey, United States
"a Democratic-leaning Jewish teenager in southern New Jersey"
Rockville, Maryland, United States
"at Resess wedding to Rachel Altman at a synagogue in Rockville, Maryland"
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
"The Chabad House at Princeton, Reses alma mater, posted a photo of the couple with the vice president"
Lithuania
"whose grandfather escaped the Holocaust in Lithuania"

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