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‘I voted for you because Jews are good with money’: Mark Levine on running for comptroller
In a wide-ranging conversation with JTA, Levine talked about how he’d work with the city’s next mayor, why the Jewish community needs to build more coalitions, and his deep love of pickles.
With ban removed, NYC rabbis are weighing endorsements in a heated mayoral race
As NYC's heated electoral race continues, NYC rabbis weigh endorsements
Hebron mayor, convicted terrorist Tayseer Abu Sneineh arrested by IDF
When fighting antisemitism becomes controversial, it’s already antisemitism - opinion
CAM's upcoming Australian Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism has been the target of attacks, with critics delegitimizing this anti-hate event.
Democratic Party of Minnesota revokes endorsement of mayoral candidate for state's largest city
The endorsement's revocation was due to "substantial failures" in the Minneapolis convention's voting process.
What Zohran Mamdani has actually said about Jews and Israel
Pro-Israel Jewish Democrats say Zohran Mamdani’s Israel stances are cause for concern but not panic
Jewish Democratic activists said Mamdani’s victory is not the national disaster for the century-long Jewish-Democratic alignment that Republicans are making it out to be, but it's not good either.
Mamdani defends proposal of taxing 'richer, whiter neighborhoods'
Zohran Mamdani defended his controversial proposal to raise property taxes in what he described as "richer and whiter neighborhoods," while also stating that billionaires shouldn't exist.
Schumer, Nadler race to praise Mamdani, in sharp contrast to Jewish establishment worries
Two of the city’s most veteran Jewish pro-Israel Democratic politicians raced to praise Mamdani, a supporter of the boycott Israel movement.
Jewish New Yorkers respond to Zohran Mamdani’s win in the NYC mayoral democratic primary
Joey Saban a Democratic district leader from Brooklyn and political strategist, expressed his dismay at the implications of Mamdani’s win, particularly for the Jewish community.
Jewish groups, leaders 'frightened' that 'raging antisemite' Mamdani may be next NY mayor
The potential impact of a Mamdani mayoral stint on Jewish safety was one of the main concerns expressed to the Jerusalem Post. Additionally
Zohran Mamdani shocks Andrew Cuomo in NYC Democratic mayoral primary centered on Jewish issues
Mamdani, is an outspoken critic of Israel who has long supported the movement to boycott it. He condemned Israel after the attacks of Oct. 7; and has defended the phrase “globalize the intifada."
'First time a declared BDS supporter occupies City Hall,’ Arab media on NYC mayoral race
Al Jazeera Arabic called the 33-year-old state assemblyman “the first Muslim candidate to capture a city-wide primary in America’s largest Jewish population centre."
An existential threat: New York cannot have a mayor who fans the flames of antisemitism - opinion
For mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to say Israel does not have a right to exist as a Jewish state, he is aligning himself with the world's most notorious antisemites.
