{"id":97156,"date":"2026-11-03T23:27:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=97156"},"modified":"2026-11-03T23:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:27:48","slug":"moskowitz-projected-to-win-florida-seat-in-race-between-two-pro-israel-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/moskowitz-projected-to-win-florida-seat-in-race-between-two-pro-israel-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Moskowitz projected to win Florida seat in race between two pro-Israel candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JOSEPH STRAUSS<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014&nbsp;Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz is projected to beat Republican Scott Singer, the former mayor of Boca Raton, in a battle between two staunchly pro-Israel politicians in a redrawn district.<\/p>\n<p>With 95% of the vote counted, Moskowitz is ahead by a 5-percentage-point margin a little after 8 p.m., according to Associated Press.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97157\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Moskowitz.avif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97157\" class=\"wp-image-97157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Moskowitz.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-97157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) speaks during a news conference on &#8220;Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena&#8221; (UAP) outside of the U.S. Capitol Building on June 09, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The redrawn district covers a stretch of Florida shoreline north of Miami and includes large Jewish communities in areas including Boca and Fort Lauderdale, and is seen as leaning slightly Democratic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moskowitz, who was endorsed by the lobbying group AIPAC, has touted himself as \u201cthe most pro-Israel Jewish Democrat in Congress.\u201d Singer, meanwhile, was endorsed by President Donald Trump and the Republican Jewish Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Moskowitz has said there is an \u201costracizing\u201d associated with being staunchly pro-Israel in a Democratic Party that is increasingly including anti-Zionist voices. Singer seized on that sentiment, saying during a synagogue candidates\u2019 forum that Moskowitz will be drowned out by the Democrats\u2019 anti-Israel wing if he is reelected.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates themselves have largely been aligned on the issue of Israel. Both have condemned accusations that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. They each oppose any effort to condition or cut off U.S. military aid to Israel. Both supported Israel\u2019s strikes on Iranian facilities in 2025, though Moskowitz has since called for the U.S. to end its war with Iran, whereas Singer said during a forum that the U.S. needs \u201cto ensure victory here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates have also emphasized combating antisemitism in their campaigns, and say they would push to expand the Nonprofit Security Grant Program to increase funding for security at Jewish schools, synagogues and other institutions. They also are both in favor of codifying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism into federal law; critics say the definition wrongly lumps in some criticism of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In a campaign ad targeting antisemitism, Moskowitz pulled from the story of his family, some of whom \u2014 including his great-grandparents \u2014 were killed in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn every generation, they rise against us,\u201d Moskowitz said in the ad.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Moskowitz%20projected%20to%20win%20Florida%20seat%20in%20race%20between%20two%20pro-Israel%20candidates\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[8790,8795,15460,8788,15461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97158,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97156\/revisions\/97158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}