We were two of the youngest Jewish Americans to run for Congress in 2018. We have many things in common, including our upbringing, our core beliefs, our love for Israel, and our reasons for running in the first place against what many said were insurmountable odds.
One of those things that we have in common is the core belief that our elected officials in Congress need to do more to create public policy that educates our next generation about the Holocaust. In April 2018, a group of members of the House of Representatives (four Democrats and four Republicans) introduced a bipartisan bill called the Never Again Education Act (H.R. 5460). The bill was introduced in response to an alarming survey by the Claims Conference, now public, claiming that 66% of American millennials have never heard of Auschwitz.
