Meet the new Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 118th Congress. Their varied backgrounds are illustrative of the many paths Jews are taking to the halls of Congress in the 21st century.

  • Daniel Goldman, D-NY: Daniel Sachs Goldman, 46, heir to the Levi-Strauss & Co. fortune, is as federal prosecutor in Manhattan, and legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC. He has already established a profile on Capitol Hill, joining Democratic Representative Ritchie Torres of the Bronx to file a complaint with the House Ethics Committee regarding George Santos.
  • Max Miller, R-OH: A former Marine, Miller, 34, is the scion of a wealthy Cleveland-area real estate family. He won his district on a platform of opposition to teaching “critical race theory” in schools, opposition to the two-state solution in the Middle East, and cutting inflation through reduced government spending and lower taxes.
  • Greg Landsman, D-OH: During the campaign, Greg Landsman, 46, billed himself as a “former public school teacher,” even though he taught Spanish for just a year in 2001, two years after graduating from college. He went on to earn a graduate degree from the Harvard Divinity School and returned to Cincinnati, where he worked in the education nonprofit sector. Landsman has joined the New Democratic Coalition, the main alliance of moderate Democrats in the House.
  • Becca Balint, D-VT: Becca Balint, 54, an LGBTQ person, won election last November to the seat occupied by Bernie Sanders (1991-2007) before his move to the Senate. She is the first woman House member from Vermont and was the first woman president pro tempore of the Vermont State Senate. She won her seat as a left-wing, Bernie-style progressive. Her campaign stressed her fight for paid parental leave, increased minimum wage, reproductive freedom, and her belief in “healthcare for all.”
  • Jared Moskowitz, D-FL: Three weeks after a gunman murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, in February 2018, Democratic State Representative Jared Moskowitz, now 42, rose on the floor of the legislature and spoke in favor of a wide-ranging measure on gun safety. He was instrumental in the passage of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Act, signed by then-Republican Governor Rick Scott, an achievement in increasingly red Florida. He is now the House member for the district. Like Landsman of Ohio, Moskowitz has joined the centrist New Democrat Coalition.