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New York
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to build a $30 million taxpayer-funded grocery store in Harlem has drawn sharp criticism from supermarket industry leaders.
President Donald Trump and his administration have long been on a path to diminish Palestinian declarations of statehood. The Trump administration recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel, and in a historic move relocated the American embassy to Yerushalayim. David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel, is recognized for engaging the White House on such a transference, and must be commended for his painstaking efforts since assuming his position.
The recent comments by freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib during a podcast have been discussed thoroughly in the Jewish, and non-Jewish, community. Tlaib, who spun an ahistorical lie that the surviving Jews of the Holocaust were welcomed with open arms by her Palestinian ancestors, has her defenders in the Democratic Party. The nefarious aspect of the defense tactics is not claiming that she is right; rather, they attack the criticizers themselves. By doing this, their goal is to silence their opponents, and this silence has a history all its own.
“Not only one has risen against us to annihilate us, but in every generation they rise against us to annihilate us.” These words, recited during the most emotional point of the Pesach Seder, still ring true, despite the incredible freedoms American Jews enjoy. Six months after the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, last week another shooting occurred at the Chabad in Poway, California. A few days earlier, The New York Times published a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a big-nosed dog with a Jewish star necklace leading a yarmulke-wearing, blind President Trump. Anti-Semitism rears its ugly head in many forms, and American Jews must be knowledgeable of who our enemies are and where they come from if we are to continue to survive.
New York
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed two City Hall executive orders ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, then asked NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to pass the ceremonial pen to Chief Counsel Ramzi Kassem. One order establishes Sept. 11 as an annual citywide Day of Remembrance and Service; the other updates emergency continuity and preparedness. The mayor’s office said Kassem and his team drafted both documents. Kassem previously represented Ahmed al-Darbi, who pleaded guilty to war-crime charges tied to an al-Qaida plot that included the 2002 bombing of the French tanker MV Limburg. Al-Darbi’s sister was married to Khalid al-Mihdhar, a hijacker on American Airlines Flight 77, which struck the Pentagon. Council Member Joann Ariola called the gesture “breathtakingly tone-deaf and disrespectful.” Tisch left the Blue Room immediately after handing over the pen.
Q: It seems like everyone is in therapy these days. So many children are being diagnosed with ADHD or anxiety, teenagers are struggling with depression, and adults seem to be talking about mental health more than ever. I don’t remember my parents’ or grandparents’ generation needing therapists — they seemed to manage just fine. Is this generation so much weaker than prior generations? Or is something else going on?
