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An influential NYC rabbi said the American Jewish “Golden Age” has ended. Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, senior rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan, declared that “the Golden Age of American Jewry” is over during his Shabbat sermon Friday at the prominent Reform congregation. Hirsch’s speech focused on the midterm election results, in which Democrats seized control of the U.S. House and Senate with the help of some candidates, like Michigan’s Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, who oppose the U.S.-Israel alliance.