Doug Wilson, a Christian Nationalist pastor in Idaho and a self-described “paleo-Confederate,” wants to strip the citizenship of anyone who voted for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. As leader of the denomination that includes Pete Hegseth, Wilson previously sparked headlines for wanting to…
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…
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…
Democratic Socialists’ wins rattle Democrats, rouse GOP
Democratic Socialists are on a roll with two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the mayor of the nation’s largest city and three June primary winners in New York and Colorado. The wins led President Donald Trump to criticize…
5 takeaways from the NY primaries: Shifting Jewish power centers, King Mamdani and more
The New York Democratic primaries were a big coming-out for the party’s leftmost flank — and a wake-up call for Jews in the city and beyond.
Zohran Mamdani vetoes school ‘buffer zone’ bill against wishes of major Jewish groups
Mayor Zohran Mamdani vetoed a “buffer zone” bill insulating “educational facilities” from protests on Friday morning, drawing the ire of a number of Jewish organizations that supported it.
Mamdani sparks controversy with his Iran war statement offering solidarity to Iranians but not Israelis
Mayor Zohran Mamdani fiercely condemned the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and the killing of Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday, calling the attacks “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.”
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.
Must ‘rugged individualism’ and ‘warmth of collectivism’ be opposites?
With a nod and apology to Robert Frost and his poem “The Road Not Taken”: Two roads diverged on my fallow screen, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one…
Can Zohran Mamdani Reverse Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Drift Towards the Far Right?
If you looked at the diversity of New Yorkers present at Zohran Mamdani’s November 4 victory party, Haredi rabbis Moshe Indig and Moshe Hoffman didn’t look too out of place. Having endorsed Mamdani just two days before the election, Indig—a prominent Williamsburg,…
What Mamdani missed about the Manhattan synagogue protest
When houses of worship become staging grounds for political rage, nothing good comes of it.