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Elaine Goodman Luria (/ˈlʊriə/; LUUR-ee-ə; born August 15, 1975) is an American politician and US Navy veteran serving as one of our 435 U.S. representatives, she from Virginia's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2019. She was one of 102 female members elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2018, a record number.
Before running for Congress, she served as a naval officer for 20 years. Luria rose to the rank of commander and spent most of her career aboard ship. She defeated Republican incumbent Scott Taylor in 2018. She defeated Taylor in a rematch to win a second term in 2020. Representatives must be 25 years old and must have been
She was interviewed on The View this morning, and made the comment that she is a former Navy person. She thought of the captain on a ship sitting back and doing nothing. That's a derelict of duty, she commented, comparing Trump's act of doing nothing when he could have stopped the January 6th attack on our government.
When I saw her name, I immediately thought that she should be a descendant of Isaac Luria of Safed (1534-1572), where I lived in Israel for over 4 years. He was a Jewish Palestinian Kabbalist, born in Jerusalem and educated in Egypt, renowned for his ascetic life and saintly character. He had a synagogue in Safed and Jews from all over would come once a year to remember him at the cemetery. He was still a most important man in Tzfat (Safed).
Luria was born on August 15, 1975, in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the southern Jews I've just written about. Her mother Michelle's family immigrated to Jasper, Alabama, in 1906. The family sold goods to coal miners in Walker County, Alabama. In the early-1900s, Luria's great-grandfather helped establish a Reform Jewish congregation in Jasper, and her immediate family joined the Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham. Luria's mother and grandmother were active in the National Council of Jewish Women (of which her mother was president), Hadassah, the Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood, and the Birmingham Jewish Federation.
Luria's husband, Robert Blondin, is also a retired naval commander and spent 27 years in the service. Luria has two stepchildren and a daughter born in 2009. They reside in Norfolk, and she gave the commencement speech in May 2019 at Virginia Wesleyan University. Luria attends Ohef Sholom Temple, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Norfolk. She must be a real Luria, then, using her maiden name.
Luria is a self-described "unabashed supporter" of the U.S. relationship with Israel. (Being a Democrat and commenting with disfavor about Trump,
which I do a agree with, what does that mean being Trump did a lot for Israel that other presidents had promised but did
nothing? )
She was the lone Democrat to vote against repealing the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 in 2021. What, the USA wanted to repeal or stop using military force
against Iraq and she wanted to use it? Well, she was a high-level
military person, more aware of what goes on.
In September 2019, Luria labeled herself a "security Democrat"—an idiom for freshman Democrats with national security experience—and called for an impeachment inquiry against Trump in a Washington Post op-ed. In an October 2019 town hall meeting in Virginia Beach, Luria charged that Trump had "Enlist[ed] the help of a foreign leader to influence and malign a potential political opponent to affect the outcome of our next election all under [the] guise of trying to fight corruption." Later in October 2019, Luria formally voted for an impeachment inquiry against Trump, and joined all but three House Democrats to vote for impeachment on both counts: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in December 2019; all House Republicans voted no on both charges.
My question is, what proof did she have? Was she just going along with
loshen hora (gossip from others), or did she have concrete proof. It didn't hold
up in that he wasn't impeached then...no enough proof.
Luria accepts the scientific consensus on climate change. She is concerned about the physical impacts of climate change on global instability and military readiness. She also believes the Trump administration attempted to discredit military and scientific experts on the physical impacts of climate change, which she views as an aspersion to the national security and scientific apparatuses.
He had really put his foot into it, here. We don't which way to duck, from the climate or from our enemies. We're between the devil (which I don't believe in) and the deep blue sea, as the saying goes. Our leaders have to be sharp as well as wise, beyond of scope of being naive, judgmental to the point of remaining neutral by not being swayed by compliments or money, always thinking of "what's in it for this person??? and, is it ethical? Ukraine is a good example, to help or not to help, that is the question. Europe seems to be asking that right now.
LURIA (Lourie, Lurje, Loria, Lurja) , well-known family traceable to the 14th century. The Luria family spread throughout Germany, Bohemia, Eastern Europe, Italy, and Oriental countries. The name perhaps derives from Loria, a small town near *Bassano in the Vicenza region of Italy, but this is by no means certain. All who bear this name did not necessarily belong to one family, ( but DNA testing can straighten that out quick enough) and there is certainly no connection between this family and the Luria family (who were Levites) to which Isaac *Luria (the Ari) belonged. (If it depends on genealogy findings, it's impossible to prove, possibly, but not DNA. It doesn't lie. ) She's from a Jewish family. It's said we're all 30th cousins. You'd be surprised how many people I match with my DNA! The main Luria family is descended from *Rashi and legend extends its descent to the tanna*Johanan ha-Sandelar. The source of the family history is the genealogical document compiled by Johanan b. Aaron Luria, himself.
One of my cousins (her mother, my father are siblings) is connected by DNA on chromosomes 1,2,12, 17, 22, to a Luria.) They are 3rd cousins. I didn't show any such connection, but 3 of us do match another Luria as 4th cousins. I'll have to work on it later to see if there's any common ancestor. Elaine, I use FTDNA. We are connected to Isaac Luria through the Katzenellenbogen line, as many people are. Isaac's father, I believe,, was Solomon ben Jehiel, otherwise known as the Maharshal, a rabbi and codifier.
Resource:
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia-Isaac Luria
https://obits.al.com/us/obituaries/birmingham/name/miriam-goodman-obituary?id=9946463
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Luria
https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2022/08/really-jews-in-south-like-mississippis.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/elaine-luria
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/luria
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