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(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.
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