The son of the chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been chosen as the new White House liaison to the Jewish community.
Jay Zeidman, 22, has been working in the White House Office of Public Liaison since last summer, and will be taking over.
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Jeffrey Berkowitz, who became the White House Jewish liaison last year, will now focus on his main job in the presidential scheduling office.
Zeidman’s father is Fred Zeidman, a Houston friend of President Bush who was named chairman of the museum in 2002 and led fund raising in the Jewish community for Bush’s re-election.