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(Sept. 23, 2026 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump is making a “serious and dangerous mistake” by taking an increasingly warm tone toward New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS.Seeing Trump appear alongside Mamdani at a press conference outside Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence, […]
(Sept. 18, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was nowhere to be seen among a crowd of about 400 Jewish day school students outside Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence, for what organizers called a “prayer vigil” on Friday morning.“The mayor has said he’s got a schedule,” Rabbi Binyamin Krauss, principal of SAR […]
(Sept. 16, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that he doesn’t plan to attend protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the leader’s visit to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24.“I do not have any plans to attend any protest at the U.N. General […]
(Sept. 15, 2026 / JNS) City Hall isn’t concerned that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has yet to receive federal security clearance nine months into the job, his office told JNS.“The process of obtaining the mayor’s federal security clearance is ongoing and proceeding within the currently prevailing timeline for one,” Sam Raskin, a spokesman […]
(Sept. 7, 2026 / JNS) New York state will distribute $70 million to 290 nonprofit community-based organizations that are “vulnerable to hate crimes and attacks due to their ideology, beliefs or mission,” the office of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told JNS exclusively on Monday.“The Jewish community has been subjected to horrible, horrible acts of […]
(Sept. 4, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s visit to Eichler’s Judaica store in Borough Park on Wednesday was an “embarrassment” that allowed him to portray himself as an ally of Jews while continuing to promote anti-Israel views, Inna Vernikov, a Jewish member of the New York City Council, told JNS.The mayor, […]
(Sept. 4, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani got a “warm welcome” from Borough Park residents and local leaders when he visited Eichler’s Judaica on Wednesday ahead of Rosh Hashanah, a City Hall spokesman told JNS.Sam Raskin, a spokesman for the mayor, told JNS that Mamdani was “proud to visit Borough Park […]
(Sept. 1, 2026 / JNS) Synagogues and other targets could face greater risk if the Trump administration keeps withholding $87 million in federal counterterror funding from the state, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani warned on Tuesday.The mayor and governor, who were joined by state and local law-enforcement officials […]
(Aug. 28, 2026 / JNS) After New York state regulators approved a proposed merger between Maimonides Medical Center and New York City’s public hospital system on Thursday, Orthodox Jewish leaders warned that the deal could cost the community control over a hospital that has accommodated Jewish religious needs for generations.A committee of the New York […]
(Aug. 25, 2026 / JNS) A “secret garden.” That’s how James Kellerhouse describes the grassy, historic grounds of Vanderbilt University’s new campus in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.“You walk through the gates and you’re just in this oasis of historic, beautiful buildings,” Kellerhouse, assistant vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and executive director of operations and engagement for […]
(Aug. 25, 2026 / JNS) A new nutrition survey led by the United Nations Children’s Fund shows relatively low levels of acute malnutrition among children in accessible areas of Gaza, which confirms Israel’s repeated rejection of claims that the Strip was experiencing widespread starvation, according to Ofir Akunis, Israeli consul general in New York.“The truth […]
(Aug. 25, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declined to say on Monday if he still supports Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, as the socialist leader faces mounting scrutiny over his finances, housing and work history.Mamdani was asked about Gordillo at an Aug. 24 press […]
(Aug. 14, 2026 / JNS) The first hearing of a case, over which Gerald Lebovits, a New York County Supreme Court judge, presided on Thursday was about whether New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has illegally withheld records about his revocation, on his first day on the job, of his predecessor’s executive orders protecting […]
(Aug. 11, 2026 / JNS) It is difficult to believe that Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, one of two grand rebbes of the Satmar Chassidic movement, had purely religious intentions when he said that criticizing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani violates Torah commandments, Dov Hikind, a former New York state Assembly member, told JNS.“I wish […]
In an hour-long meeting with Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday, rabbis from across Jewish denominations urged him to tone down his anti-Israel rhetoric, which they said was making New York City unsafe for Jews. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, told the Forward that nobody there, right or left, told the […]
(Aug. 5, 2026 / JNS) In early 2023, an Orthodox Jewish mother sought help from the staff at the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty at a council event for women and children.“She just said, ‘Look, I have a problem,’” David Greenfield, CEO and executive director of the Met Council, told JNS. “‘I qualify for WIC, […]
(Aug. 4, 2026 / JNS) Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, and his staff haven’t contacted the Orthodox Union’s kosher division or the Kof-K Kosher certification about kosher food at the city-run grocery stores that the mayor has planned, the agencies told JNS.A city request for proposals to operate five city groceries, one per […]
(Aug. 4, 2026 / JNS) Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, released a nearly 14-minute documentary on Tuesday titled “The Union of Pinnacle Tenants: A Short History of NYC Housing” and focused on a group that he supported on his first day in office in January.The short film addresses a tenant union spanning 93 […]
(July 28, 2026 / JNS) One of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s appointees to the panel overseeing the nation’s largest public-school system signed a 2025 letter denying there was a “rampant crisis of antisemitism” on college campuses and accusing Congress of weaponizing Jew-hatred to advance a “far-right authoritarian attack on higher education.”Madeline (“Maddy”) Fox […]
(July 20, 2026 / JNS) Inna Vernikov, a Jewish member of the New York City Council, urged U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to determine whether New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani could face federal consequences if he attempts to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his planned visit to New York for the […]
(July 13, 2026 / JNS) Inna Vernikov, 41, had been speaking with JNS for about an hour when she delivered one of her characteristically blunt verdicts on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “He’s a liar,” the New York City Council member said matter-of-factly. “He’s a fake.” The statement was natural coming from the Ukrainian-born […]
Ofir Akunis spoke with JNS after he was one of those who addressed more than 600 attendees at an Oct. 7 memorial in Manhattan.
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