Washington Post: Five things to know about congressional candidate Joel Rubin

Former State Department official Joel Rubin is running for the Democratic Congressional nomination in Maryland’s 8th District. Here are a few little-known facts:

1) Far-flung roots: Rubin’s great-grandfather, who came to the United States in the 19th century from Romania immigrant, traveled to Israel after the Holocaust to search for his cousins. He found them and resettled there. A copy of a photo showing him and his daughter (Rubin’s grandmother) meeting with David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, is on Rubin’s computer at home.

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