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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, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 23, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani had higher favorable ratings among New Yorkers likely to vote in the midterm elections than did other prominent Democrats in the state, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll.The Quinnipiac survey found that 46% of likely voters viewed Mamdani favorably and 36% unfavorably. That […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 22, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he was going to the United Nations to “fight for the truth about our heroic soldiers” and to “expose the truth” about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.Netanyahu also said Jerusalem was working closely with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to […]
(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 […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 16, 2026 / JNS) Two prominent New York City Modern Orthodox Jewish day schools plan to send students to pray the Friday morning service outside the mayor’s residence.“The choice of venue is obviously intentional,” Rabbi Binyamin Krauss, principal of SAR Academy, told JNS. “It’s a positive statement that we’re here. We’re Jewish. We want […]
(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 […]
By Vita Fellig
(Sept. 15, 2026 / JNS) When someone connected to her team offered to see if Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, would meet with her, Danielle Yablonka, Miss Israel 2026, declined.“I’m always open to meeting and having conversations, but I’m not looking to give a PR stunt opportunity to someone that doesn’t support my […]
(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 […]
The Mamdani Administration’s Antisemitism action plan has yet to be released, even as the city had promised it would announce it in time for the High Holy Days.“The delay from the [Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism] is unacceptable, especially coming off 2025, when New York City recorded more antisemitic incidents than any other city in […]
At a press conference today, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a 10-year blueprint for street safety titled Vision Zero Reimagined. The plan would bring together nineteen city agencies, mayoral offices, and partners to advance more than 100 policies meant to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries. It is a continuation of Vision Zero, […]
A recent study from a Columbia University lecturer documented the ways the administration of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has enlisted legions of online influencers in lieu of traditional media. The administrations bills this as a way to reach younger New Yorkers and those less connected to traditional media. It has also raised questions […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 9, 2026 / JNS) Family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks delivered a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to New York City Hall on Tuesday, urging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this week’s ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks.New York City Council member […]
In a press conference Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the release of thousands of documents related to air quality in Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, to be accessible on an online portal. The reports, totaling more than 170,000 pages of air quality reports, correspondence, and contamination records, had been stored in 68 boxes […]
(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, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 4, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Wednesday a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative artificial intelligence tools for public-school students from 2-K through eighth grade, as part of a new citywide policy governing AI use in schools. The policy, which the mayor announced at the Brooklyn STEAM Center, will […]
(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 […]
A business group filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court in Manhattan over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposal to open five city-owned stores would hurt small businesses, saying the city did not properly study how the new stores would affect neighborhood supermarkets and would discriminate against the often-minority owners of said businesses.Kenneth Rolden, the president of […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 1, 2026 / JNS) As Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, was ending his interview with Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez and Peter Rosenberg, who cohost an eponymous podcast, Rosenberg cut in.“Before we go, I promised my dad, my 79-year-old father in Maryland—reformed Zionist to pro-Palestinian freedom person that he’s become over the years,” […]
(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 […]
In a news release Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and School Chancellor Kamar Samuels said in a news release that the city government would “bring every resource to bear” to produce the supplies and funds day care providers need in time for the school year’s start next week. This was after many early childhood centers told […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Aug. 28, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new 15-member Business Advisory Council, which includes Jewish real estate heavyweights like RXR CEO and chairman Scott Rechler and Steiner Studios chairman Douglas Steiner, is getting mixed reviews.City Hall said on Thursday that the new panel will “meet quarterly with the mayor and deputy […]
(Aug. 28, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met on Thursday morning with Mike Waltz, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in a last-minute addition to the former’s schedule.Joe Calvello, press secretary to the mayor, told JNS that Mamdani and Waltz had a “productive discussion with a focus on planning ahead of […]
The Mamdani Administration Tuesday addressed concerns about the disjointed rollout of its second-home tax, announcing the reduction of over four thousand property owners from the list it produced of those who would be required; and the extension of the deadline to prove homeowners’ New York City residency. The statement, the most detailed defense of the […]
(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 […]
In a press statement today, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Department of Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani announced new enforcement measures to take sidewalk sheds down faster and proposed designs to make them less intrusive.Among other new rules from the DOB, building owners will be required to effect repairs more quickly and dismantle sheds safely on a […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Aug. 17, 2026 / JNS) Debbie Saslaw, a co-founder and executive producer of Brooklyn-based political production company Melted Solids, said she was “mistaken” after initially claiming that an attack at a Manhattan synagogue was not antisemitic because the alleged assailant was Jewish.Saslaw made the comments on X after sharing a New York Post report about […]
Zohran Mamdani is the first mayor of New York City this century without a deputy mayor whose job description includes “economic development,” even as job growth remaining weak. It took him seven months to name somebody to run the city’s Economic Development Corporation, Anthony Shorris, a partner at McKinsey & Company with extensive government experience. […]
(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 […]
Senior NYPD officials have, in recent years, traveled to Israel for training conferences by the Israeli National Police on counterterrorism and antisemitism. City Council Speaker Julie Menin has said that she expects such cooperation to continue should it be brought up in the council. On Wednesday, City & State reporter Fariha Rahman asked Mayor Zohran […]
In a statement Wednesday morning, City Hall said the mayor would be going on vacation "Upstate" next week starting Sunday, through August 23rd. Asked later for details, the mayor only laughed and said "upstate." A spokesperson, Dora Pekec, added that the mayor's wife Rama Duwaji would be going as well, but declined to give a […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Aug. 12, 2026 / JNS) Jewish New Yorkers disapprove of Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, 66% to 26%, and 75% of them don’t agree with the Democratic Socialists of America, compared to 17% who approve of it, according to a new Siena University Poll of 811 likely gubernatorial voters in New York.The poll, […]
(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 […]
Siding with a group of Staten Island homeowners, State Supreme Court Wayne M. Ozzi issued a temporary restraining order Monday pausing the roll-out of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s tax on second homes in the city.The tax, as surcharge on one’s annual property tax bill, would apply to condos and coöps that are used as second homes […]
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. 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 […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Aug. 4, 2026 / JNS) Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip next month’s Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony at Ground Zero, arguing that his attendance at the 25th anniversary commemoration would be “divisive.”The letter came as an online petition launched by a man whose wife was […]
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani defended the choice of members of his newly unveiled judicial advisory panel, which had drawn criticism for having no Jews. “Any suggestion that there would be any decision made or motivated by religion, it does bother me,” he said. He also defended his rejection of retired Appellate […]
Anna Bahr, top spokeswoman for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, accused Rahm Emanuel of lying about a conversation the latter had with Mamdani in September. The former Chicago mayor was recently interviewed by the podcast "Unholy," where he said: “I said, ‘Look, you are your father’s son. I’m my father’s son. You chant ‘a […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(July 29, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Wednesday that he was unaware that the 18-member Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary did not include any Jewish attorneys, rejecting suggestions that the omission reflected intentional exclusion.“I did not ask the religion of each person who was put forward,” Mamdani told […]
(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 […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(July 21, 2026 / JNS) The lone rabbi, of 40 Staten Island religious leaders with whom New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met on Tuesday in a closed-press event, told JNS that he raised Jew-hatred with the mayor but received an inadequate response.Rabbi Gerald Sussman, spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El of Staten Island, a Conservative […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 27, 2026 / JNS) Despite a petition from a man whose wife was killed in the 9/11 attacks, calling for Zohran Mamdani to be excluded from the annual commemoration of the 2001 attacks, the New York City mayor said that he plans to attend.“I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 24, 2026 / JNS) As Jewish organizations linked New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rhetoric about Israel to an antisemitic stabbing in Manhattan, the Council on American-Islamic Relations defended the mayor without mentioning the attack, which one Jewish group described as “gaslighting.”In a statement issued on July 24, CAIR and its New York chapter […]
Politico Playbook reports that Ramzi Kassem, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s chief counsel, owns stock in RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies), a multinational military contractor that has a long relationship with the Israeli military, in such deals as a $1.25 billion deal this past November for surface-to-air missiles for Israel’s Iron Dome system. Mr. Kassem, a law professor […]
(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 […]
By Joshua Marks
(July 20, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Sunday slammed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over remarks suggesting he could seek to arrest the Israeli leader if he visits the city, accusing him of “attacking the leader of the Jewish state and the only democracy in the Middle East.” The PMO dismissed […]
City Journal reports that Ana María Archilak, New York City Commissioner for International Affairs, had a meeting scheduled for July 7th with Iranian Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani. This was apparently unauthorized, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani only found out about it when a press inquiry arrived at City Hall. The meeting was called off after the […]
In remarks to reporters covered on C-SPAN2, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that he still considers the Jewish political strategist Morris Katz "a top advisor of mine." Katz worked on Graham Platner's Senate campaign in Maine, which was finally undone this month after constant scandals related to a Nazi-associated tattoo, antisemitic statements, and accusations of sexual […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 16, 2026 / JNS) The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism released a substantially updated version of its backgrounder on the Democratic Socialists of America on Wednesday, adding material from the past two years and highlighting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as an example of an elected official advancing an anti-Israel agenda. “The previous update to […]
Run the test in good faith and Israel is the hardest state on his list to convict. Yet it is the only one he convicted.
By TheBoss
On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani revoked all of the executive orders that his predecessor, Eric Adams, has issued since Sept. 26, 2024, including several designed to protect Jews, in order, he said, to have a “fresh start for the incoming administration.” The mayor, who has said he would […]
No one should be surprised by the ADL's report that revealed over 20% of Zohran Mamdani's transition team members hold extremist views and have ties with notoriously antisemitic organizations.
September 25, 2026 
