Eric Cantor, the Man You Thought You Knew
Today on Tablet
February 08, 2011
Eric Cantor, Republican from Virginia, the highest Jewish elected official in U.S. history, is not your ordinary Jew (he grew up in Richmond), Republican (he is the only Jewish Republican legislator), or elected official (actually, he is the second-ranked member of the House. The man leading the charge to repeal President Obama’s health-care reform was once the target of implicitly anti-Semitic mailers; the man who says “This is a Christian nation” keeps kosher. Allison Hoffman’s profile today in Tablet Magazine is to be printed out and read in full, because, like him or not, Eric Cantor seems primed only to continue rising.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
