Adam Schiff

Adam Schiff, the new senator from California, always has my attention. Enormously well spoken, with simpatico politics, he’s the kind of person who rings many of my bells.

But it was a recent decision that really sealed the deal. As many of you have read, he took his senatorial oath of office on a twelfth-century edition of the Mishneh Torah. That would be the Mishneh Torah of Moses Maimonides, one of the first post-Biblical codes of law in Jewish history.