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Brad Lander, a candidate for comptroller of New York City, is expected to receive the endorsement of a leading Jewish progressive group on Thursday. Lander is in a crowded race to become the city’s chief fiscal watchdog in the June 22 Democratic primary. Lander, a Brooklyn Councilmember, is the first citywide candidate to be endorsed…
Two hours before half the liberal Jews in Brooklyn were set to turn up at a local synagogue to learn how to resist President Trump, things were feeling a bit precarious at the offices of the city councilman who was organizing the whole thing. “Did you hear anything?” Rachel Goodman asked. Goodman is chief of…
In a packed synagogue in Park Slope, Brooklyn Monday night, activists gathered to organize against Donald Trump. The sanctuary of the 1,200-seat Congregation Beth Elohim was packed; a long line of attendees snaked down the front steps and around the corner. “The level of showing up that people are doing… It’s powerful and it feels…
Brooklyn activists filled a Park Slope synagogue January 16 to organize opposition to the incoming Donald Trump administration. Organizers estimated that hundreds of activists attended the meeting, held in the sanctuary of Congregation Beth Elohim, a Reform congregation. Called #getorganizedbk, the group was founded in November by New York City Councilman Brad Lander, who represents…
Brad Lander is a city councilman in New York. But that’s not preventing him from setting his sights nationally, as he casts about for a new staffer who will take the fight to President-elect Donald Trump. According to the job posting, the Brooklyn Democrat is looking for a communications director to “resist the threats of…
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