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November 6, 2025

A Bad Red Apple

On the 30th anniversary of Rabin's assassination (411) in the city that was devastated by terror (911), New York voters elected a Hamas supporter mayor. I voted for Rabin in 1992. I am baffled by anyone, Jews in particular, who voted for Mamdani in the most Jewish city in the world.

Tuesday's elections were meaningful in many other areas, but the optics were and are in New York. Lost were the double-digit wins of Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, both moderates with a military and law enforcement background. The two Congressional roommates planned and successfully delivered perfect campaigns.

Mamdani, who ran against an outlier Republican and an unpopular and controversial Independent, won 50% of the vote in a city were 80% are Democrats. America is polarized. My favorite mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gauss, is turning in his grave again and again seeing how little standard distribution there is. What bell curve?

Jews everywhere are still in shock after October 7. Bookended by Mamdani on the extreme left and all things MAGA on the right, I keep hearing Deborah Lipstadt's line about how the only thing the extreme right and left have in common is hatred for Jews.

It is my hope that the politics of Abigail and Mikie lead us, that Mamdani is a one-term fiasco and that in the four years ahead I have no reason to say, "I told you so".

For more on this here is JTA's "As Mamdani's victory reverberates beyond NYC, Jews must choose solidarity over shock." and The Forward's Rob Eshman, "The 3 Profound Jewish Lessons of Mamdani's Astonishing Victory."

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October 7, 2024 Commemoration

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Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker Ana Sazonov Answers Your Questions About Ukraine

On June 16, 2022, at our annual meeting, we hosted Ana Sazonov, executive director at the Jewish Federation of Columbia, SC. Ana recently returned from two weeks of volunteer work at the Ukraine border with Poland and shared her experience with us. We had many questions after and she answered all of them.