Jerrold Nadler Faces Rare Primary Challenge — Just Months After Backing Iran Deal
For the first time in decades, voters on Manhattan’s West Side and in Boro Park, Brooklyn will have a choice to make in the upcoming Congressional primaries.
Representative Jerry Nadler, the progressive Democrat whose district includes more Jews than any other in the House of Representatives, is facing his first challenge for the Democratic ballot line since 1996. And in November, he will face his first serious Republican challenger since 2004.
Oliver Rosenberg, a 30-year-old openly gay graduate of Yeshiva University, is contesting Nadler’s spot on the Democratic ticket. And Philip J. Rosenthal, an attorney and physicist, has already tied down the Republican, Conservative and Independence lines for the general election.
Both Rosenberg and Rosenthal were emboldened to make their once-in-a-blue-moon runs by the furor over Nadler’s September vote in favor of the framework agreement for a nuclear deal with Iran, and both have hit the issue hard.
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