Jews, Zohran Mamdani and Trump
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Unlike his opponents in the New York City mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani has offered perspectives on Israel, Zionism, and antisemitism that have upset and even alarmed some voters. But his outreach efforts to the city’s diverse Jewish communities will persist.
Jewish voters have long reliably supported Democrats, and Mamdani won the Democratic primary, but concerns about rising antisemitism and Mamdani’s sharp criticisms of Israel have opened up a generational split.
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How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
Zohran Mamdani’s victory will make him the first Muslim mayor of New York City, which has the highest concentration of Jews outside Israel.
Andrew Cuomo has centered the accusation that Mamdani would endanger Jews in his closing pitch to voters. But a group of canvassers wearing “New York Jews for Zohran” T-shirts said that Cuomo misunderstood the city’s Jewish population, according to The New York Times.
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Germany's Central Council of Jews honours activist Karoline Preisler
Germany's Central Council of Jews has honoured activist Karoline Preisler with the Paul Spiegel Prize. "With her commitment, Karoline Preisler shows our society that every individual can make a difference,
Pope Leo XIV has marked the 60th anniversary of the landmark Vatican document that revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with Jews.
The draft exemption given to the ultra-Orthodox has caused deep divisions in Israeli society, emerging as the most serious threat to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
President Donald Trump alleged that tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews turned out to vote for the Republican gubernatorial candidate for New Jersey, Jack Ciattarelli. “I just heard that 32,000 Orthodox Jews around Lakewood and Jackson,