New York steals your soul — sensory overload, hyper-competition and financial pressure. Constant noise, crowded streets and concrete surroundings are disheartening. My hometown is overpriced, overcrowded and overbearing. On bad days, the city chips away at your spirit. New Yorkers…
I was there on 9/11
Every year I’ve been on Facebook — for nearly 20 years — I’ve posted the same message on September 11: Every year on this day, I wake up remembering the clear blue sky. It was a perfect September day in…
Netanyahu drags Mamdani into his reelection campaign as face of antisemitism
For nearly two years, Zohran Mamdani has made Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a central political target. Now Netanyahu is making Mamdani part of his own reelection campaign.
Why Mamdani kept pushing for Netanyahu’s arrest
Let us stipulate that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a very talented politician. So why would he insist that he intended to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested up until the point when he released a two-minute video saying he…
New York rabbi: Why I lied to my mom when she asked if I felt safe
I lied to my mother yesterday. She asked if I felt safe after yet another attack last week on two residents, one of whom was Jewish, in New York City. I told her yes. I don’t even feel bad about lying….
Jewish groups say Mamdani is abusing his office in attacks on Netanyahu
Jewish groups are criticizing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for a blistering attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made as part of a video acknowledging that the city does not have the legal authority to arrest the foreign…
Jewish protesters hold Passover Seder at Palantir’s NY HQ over ICE contract
Hundreds of protesters gathered at Union Square in Manhattan on Monday afternoon (April 6) for a Passover Seder to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies and corporations working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
‘We’re praying with our feet’: a year of pro-democracy prayer vigils in New York
On a recent Monday evening as commuters hurried past, a group of faith leaders set out a microphone and battery-run candles at the Columbus Circle entrance of Central Park in Manhattan for their weekly prayer vigil and held up a…
NYC new antisemitism czar says she aims to ‘expand the communal table by pulling up additional chairs’
Phylisa Wisdom says she is ready to show the world what “a real, progressive commitment to combating antisemitism” looks like.
At Mamdani’s interfaith breakfast, NY clergy condemn Trump’s immigration crackdown
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted his first interfaith breakfast at the New York Public Library’s midtown location on Friday morning (Feb. 6). For this year’s breakfast, local clergy joined the mayor in condemning the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies.
Faith, silence and protest in Union Square
Last Friday, I joined what was estimated at 4,000 people in Union Square in New York City. We gathered to protest the murder of Renée Good and the detention of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos. But the purpose of the march…
Will Zohran Mamdani institute Sharia law in New York?
Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, the largest city in the United States, and will take office on New Year’s Day 2026. Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, and became a naturalized American citizen in 2018. He…