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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community These images coming out of France earlier this week should be seen by every single New Yorker, as...
The Republican candidate for governor met with supporters in Forest Hills last week, underscoring an electorate desperate to blunt the momentum of Democratic Socialists who have gained seats at the city and state levels.
The only event in New York City that wastes more time and energy than the Met Gala is occurring this week, when leaders from all around the world gather for the United Nations General Assembly. While New Yorkers wait in traffic and shell out for the overtime using up NYC resources, hundreds of politicians will line up to say words that no one will pay attention to while nothing gets done, as is the UN’s MO.
After three years of rejection and antisemitism, Jews must cease asking for pity and
second-guessing failed efforts at explaining themselves, and instead project strength.
After three years of failure, it’s time to try something else. That’s the lesson that Jews and those who purport to speak for them and/or the pro-Israel community should be thinking about on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre.
Across the NY/NJ area, in the past eight months, a new coalition of over a dozen coordinated grassroots groups has been organizing consistent rallies against both rising Jew-hatred and the political encroachment of the Democratic Socialists of America.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been trying to rehabilitate his image with the Jewish community of New York through a series of appearances and bribes. The reason for this is not because he has changed his views on the Jewish people at all, or because he is now appalled at attacks on Jews in a way he wasn’t before; it is purely political.
At 9:11 p.m. on September 11, 2026, with Yankee Stadium packed for a Subway Series game built around the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a man sprinted out of the left-field seats waving a Palestinian flag. The clock was not a coincidence. Security chased him into center field and tackled him on the grass. Fans above the Mets bullpen pelted him with beer cans. Then the stadium did what New York used to do without being told: it erupted in “USA” chants.
