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July 28, 2025

How the Republican Jewish Committee Found Success

The end of bipartisanship.

When the National Jewish Coalition was formed in 1985, its founders didn’t want to associate it overtly with the Republican party because Jews at the time were so uniformly loyal to Democrats. Only in 1999 was it willing to rename itself the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC). “Back then,” writes David M. Drucker, “the Democratic party was the pro-Israel party—and reliably so,” and the RJC’s leaders still believed bipartisanship was key when lobbying for Jewish causes. The group’s “two-pronged strategy,” however, hasn’t changed much: 

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