Republicans’ increasing embrace of Jews and Jewishness, quite apart from issues related to Israel, has been a welcome trend. But not everybody on the left is happy about it. Which is how we got a recent New York Times story that I struggled to believe was even real at first. The piece begins with a heartwarming anecdote. Lee Zeldin, a descendent of rabbis and the first Jewish director of the Environmental Protection Agency, affixed a mezuzah to the doorpost of his office at the agency’s