“Zohran Mamdani and NYC’s Jews: Conceding the election but not the concern”

Joshua M. Davidson

Peter and Mary Kalikow Senior Rabbinic Chair

“For many New Yorkers, Election Day was cause for celebration: the anticipation of a new mayor with new ideas on how to address longstanding challenges from affordability to crime.

“But other New Yorkers, including many (though not all) Jews, were rattled by the decisive victory of Zohran Mamdani, whose anti-Israel rhetoric has frightened them in a global environment already rife with antisemitism.”

Read “Zohran Mamdani and NYC’s Jews: Conceding the election but not the concern” in The Daily News.

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