WASHINGTON – Valerie Plame, the outed CIA Agent at the center of a George W. Bush administration scandal, said she is now the member of a Santa Fe synagogue.Read More Related Articles
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Recommended byThe revelation comes as Plame is running for Congress as a Democrat, and two years after her tweet of an antisemitic article led to her apology and professional repercussions.Plame told Tal Schneider, a political reporter for Globes, an Israeli business daily, that her interest in Judaism stemmed from her discovery that her great-grandfather was a rabbi who fled Ukraine at the turn of the last century.“I’ve always been drawn to that aspect of my Jewish heritage,” Plame said in tweets with videos that Schneider posted on Friday, “so it led me to Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe.”Plame said she was especially attracted to the temple’s social justice initiatives, and that she is a member. Schneider confirmed with members of the local Jewish community that Plame had attended some services.Plame had mentioned her Jewish background when she launched her congressional bid in September but did not say she identified in any way as Jewish.
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