Emma Saltzberg, a progressive Jewish activist and leader, fully expected to be criticized as a result of a winning streak on Jeopardy.
By Philissa Cramer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“That was priced in to my decision to do something public,” she told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I was totally expecting it.”
What she hadn’t counted on, she said, was her fellow contestants standing up for her. On Monday, Lawrence Long, the nursing student and self-described “stay-at-home uncle” from North Carolina who defeated Saltzberg on Monday’s episode reached out to let her know that he was distressed by the attacks and would be donating to IfNotNow in her honor.
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