Miller, himself the descendant of Jewish immigrants, married Katie Waldman, who is also Jewish and took his last name, at the Trump DC hotel during the incoming president’s first term. The wedding was officiated by Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, who played a role in the Trump administration’s Abraham Accords normalization agreements between Israel and several of its Arab neighbors.

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During his 2022 election campaign, Zeldin leaned into his Jewish background to rally Orthodox communities, telling voters in Brooklyn about how his grandfather founded a synagogue and how his mother taught at a Brooklyn yeshiva. At the time, the yeshiva system was facing accusations from the media and activists that it was failing to meet the state’s secular education standards, which became a top issue for Orthodox voters.

Zeldin joined the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition shortly after the gubernatorial election.