Tom Suozzi beats Israeli-American Orthodox Jew Mazi Pilip in closely-watched NY congressional election

(New York Jewish Week) — Democrat Tom Suozzi beat Republican Mazi Pilip, an Israeli-American Orthodox Jew from Ethiopia, in an election to fill the New York congressional seat briefly held by George Santos.

The Democratic victory narrows the thin Republican majority in the House and returns Suozzi to a seat he held until he left Congress to run for governor in 2022. It was also a disappointment for Pilip. Her supporters hoped her service in the Israeli army, and story as an Ethiopian immigrant to Israel who then moved to America, would strike a chord for voters as…