In a display of all the modesty of which he is capable during a Thursday speech, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer anointed himself the voice of “so many mainstream Jewish Americans” — a “silent majority” whose sentiments he alone could divine. After all, there are few better stewards of Jewish interests than Schumer, according to Schumer. “My last name is Schumer, which derives from the Hebrew word ‘shomer,’ or ‘guardian,’” he began. As he has in the past, Schumer assumed for himself the “responsibility as a ‘Shomer Yisrael’ — a guardian of the people of Israel.”
