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Source: https://www.jta.org/2018/11/06/top-headlines/results-tuesdays-races-matter-jews
New Jewish Congressmen, Senator Elected in U.S. Midterms
(JTA) Ben Sales - New Jewish members of the House of Representatives elected in 2018 include Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin, who had worked for the CIA and won in Lansing, the state capital. New York Democrat Max Rose, 31, who won medals for his service as an Army officer in Afghanistan, won in Staten Island. Virginia Democrat Elaine Luria, a former Navy commander who once organized a Passover seder on an aircraft carrier, won in Norfolk. Minnesota Democrat Dean Phillips, whose father was killed in the Vietnam War before he was born, won in suburban Minneapolis. Pennsylvania Democrat Susan Wild, a member of the board of directors of the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley, won in suburban Philadelphia. In Nevada, Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen, a former president of Ner Tamid, a Reform synagogue in suburban Las Vegas, defeated sitting Sen. Dean Heller.