This was personal for Stein: He’s a member of Temple Beth Or, a Reform Jewish congregation in Raleigh, and would be the first Jewish person elected governor of North Carolina if he wins in November. Stein told radio station WFAE in Charlotte that he was “disappointed” the caucus wasn’t approved, but signaled that he would work behind the scenes with Clayton “to find a path forward” and embrace North Carolina Jewish Democrats “who feel silenced and isolated during a time of rising antisemitism.” “We beat a dangerous extremist like Mark Robinson here in Pennsylvania in 2022,” Shapiro said in a social media post in March, after Stein, who had worked with Shapiro when both were attorneys general, won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.