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His father, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders (1904–1962), [6] a Polish-Jewish immigrant, was born in Słopnice, a town in Austrian Galicia that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now in Poland.
Bernard “Bernie” Sanders is a Jewish American politician and the current junior Senator from Vermont. He is married to Jane O’Meara Sanders; they have four children. Sanders (born September 8, 1941) was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants.
13 lip 2015 · The short answer of course: Sanders is Jewish. Here are 5 defining facts about his Jewishness. 1. His father’s family was wiped out in the Holocaust. Sanders grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, as...
23 lut 2016 · Sanders is, in many ways, a Pew Jew: As the 2013 Pew Study on Jewish American Life found, 69% of Jews polled felt that being Jewish meant “leading an ethical life,” while only 19% said it meant “observing Jewish law.”
24 paź 2024 · Sanders, the son of Jewish parents of Polish descent, grew up in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, New York. The family struggled financially, and income inequality would later become one of his key political issues.
6 lut 2020 · WASHINGTON — Asked whether his Jewish identity would be “a help or a hindrance” as he runs for president, Bernie Sanders said that his Jewishness is one of the two main factors that shaped...
24 lut 2016 · Bernie Sanders emphasizes his secular image, not his Jewish identity, complicating the way American Jews regard the historic nature of his candidacy.