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Meet the national security expert who is leading the charge to keep Jews voting Democratic

June 15, 2018

Halie Soifer says her transition from national security expert to political operative started with a crisis of violence: the deadly neo-Nazi march last summer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Soifer says the march, which culminated in a car-ramming attack on counterprotesters that killed one and injured at least 20, spurred the establishment of the organization she now leads as executive director, the Jewish Democratic Council of America.