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News No ‘Super Jewish’ district, but increased Orthodox influence in New York’s capital
Orthodox leaders are welcoming newly drawn lines that could for the first time give a member of the upstate New York community a shot at a seat in the state legislature. A new Rockland County district is the good news for Orthodox Jews looking for more representation in Washington and Albany, where the Democratically controlled…
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News In new job, the ‘Anthony Fauci of the New York City Council’ aims to fight COVID and antisemitism
Mark Levine, a term-limited councilman from Manhattan, is battle tested. In his two campaigns for the City Council, Levine, who is Jewish, was subject to vitriolic antisemitic attacks from a primary rival. “I have confronted explicit antisemitism in politics before and I’ve proven that we can beat it,” he said after his re-election. And just…
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News Eating pizza and talking Jewish politics with Tom Suozzi, who’s running for governor of New York
Tom Suozzi, a Democratic Congressman from New York, sees his current bid for governor of New York as a moment of ”bashert,” a Yiddish term often used to express the seeming fate of an important event. He is one of at least three candidates who are competing in next year’s Democratic primary against the incumbent,…
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News This one-time refugee and former Israeli paratrooper just won a seat in her county legislature
Thirty years after she was airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel fleeing religious persecution, Mazi Melesa Pilip won public office on Long Island earlier this month. The Jewish Republican unseated another Jewish woman in heavily Democratic North Hempstead, New York. Pilip, 42, beat Ellen Birnbaum — a four-term Democratic legislator, to represent Nassau County’s 10th district…
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News A quirky Israeli-born newcomer may win an even quirkier NY election
He made two unsuccessful bids for the Israeli Knesset, was twice a contestant on Israel’s Big Brother reality show, was arrested for failing to pay child support, invented an anti-vaccine mandate cryptocurrency and now awaits the results of an election too close to call for town supervisor of Canajoharie, New York. Benny Goldstein, 44, is…
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Fast Forward Kathy Hochul planned Thanksgiving in Israel. Then came Cuomo’s resignation
Becoming the 57th governor of New York earlier this summer came with a personal price for Kathy Hochul: she had to cancel a planned first-time trip with her family to Israel for the Thanksgiving weekend, the governor revealed on Monday. “I have a few responsibilities now,” Hochul said in brief remarks at the American Friends…
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Fast Forward Orthodox jubilant at Eric Adams’ victory as Democrats bleed elsewhere in New York, nation
Eric Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, sailed to victory on Tuesday, becoming the first Black mayor of New York City since 1993 by an overwhelming margin over his Republican rival, Curtis Sliwa. Elsewhere, however, Democrats had a bad night — to put it lightly. While Republicans reclaimed the governorship in Virginia and had…
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News GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa frustrated at lack of Jewish support
For four years in a row, in the mid-1990s, New York mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa was the sour garlic pickle-eating champion of the world and almost earned a silver in a matzah ball-eating contest — before he was disqualified for tampering with them. Others may know Sliwa better as a radio personality and the founder…
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