In the 2016 race for the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump were hostile rivals, with Trump claiming falsely that Cruz’s father was connected with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Trump also attacked Cruz’s wife, and in particular, insulted her looks. In response, Ted Cruz said that Trump was a “pathological liar,” “utterly amoral,” and a “serial philanderer.” Yet Cruz went on to become a Trump supporter, and he is now leading an effort by a dozen Republican senators to have Congress overturn the democratic election of President-Elect Joe Biden based on completely false and irrational claims of voter fraud. This, despite numerous court cases on the matter, none of which have been successful. During Ted Cruz’s 2016 campaign, he went with Rabbi Zev Reichman (the director of the Mechina Program at Yeshiva University) to a fundraising event. What did Cruz do that impressed Rabbi Reichman?

Ted Cruz by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

A. Cruz arrived late because he wanted to finish his bacon sandwich before getting into the rabbi’s car.

B. Cruz showed up already wearing a yarmulke.

C. Cruz greeted the rabbi by saying “Shalom Aleichem.”

D. Cruz offered the rabbi a cookie from a bag he was carrying, but first showed him the kosher certification on the package.

E. Cruz made his wife sit alone in the back seat of the rabbi’s car, telling her it was the women’s section.

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