Zohran Mamdani has built his political identity on one central idea: that Israel — and by extension, the Jewish people who support it — are the villains of our time. His hostility toward the Jewish state and his glorification of its…
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The Blogs: When Chabad Meets Ruzhin, the Mind Meets Majesty — and the Soul Remembers Its Royal Origin | Mikhail Salita
Two Hasidic paths. One heart. One light.
By Rabbi Mikhail Salita
Sometimes one ordinary evening becomes the moment that quietly changes everything. After a long day of work, I went with my rabbi, Rabbi Zalman Liberov, to a small Hasidic…
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The Blogs: A breath of fresh air | Yehudi Sabbagh
On November 4, 2025, the event “Blessing Israel” was held at the Channel 27 Auditorium in Guatemala, gathering hundreds of Christian evangelical pastors. The event was organized by Rabbi Carlos Tapiero, Deputy CEO of Maccabi World Union,…
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The Blogs: When the Legends Cover the Algorithms: A Strange Unsettling New Future for Music | Vincent James Hooper
For decades, tribute bands and bedroom musicians have made their living covering The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Queen. Now, as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms with an endless tsunami of algorithmically optimized earworms, we…
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The Blogs: Mamdani’s Win: An Open Letter to the Jewish Community | Jay M. Stein
Mamdani’s Win: An Open Letter to the Jewish Community
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York’s mayoral race is historic. He’s the city’s first Muslim mayor, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, and he won with record turnout and…
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The Blogs: NYC: October 7th’s Latest Victim | Michael Kohler
It is not hyperbole to assert Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win has made New York City the latest victim of Hamas’ October 7 attack against Israel and the aftermath that followed. World events beginning October 7 and continuing for the…
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The Blogs: When Critical Thinking Stops: Seduction of Simple Answers | Irina Zavina-Tare
The election of Zohran Mamdani left many New Yorkers, myself included, reflecting on what happens when rhetoric replaces reality. For me, the reflection did not end at the ballot box. It continued in a conversation with classmates from…
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The Blogs: What Rabin’s Assassination and Oct. 7 Have in Common | Kenneth Jacobson
This week we are remembering what was, until the October 7 massacre, one of the worst days in Israel’s history: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin thirty years ago.
Unfortunately, these two very different tragic days…
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The Blogs: God’s Will Is For Religious Pluralism | Allen S. Maller
Several parts of the Middle East have witnessed years of fighting, with almost all of the violence perpetrated by Muslims against Muslims in spite of the many verses in the Qur’an that support revering pluralism within Islam and between the…
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The Blogs: The Day After | Ariana Mizrahi
And so, it has begun.
It hasn’t even been twenty-four hours since Mamdani was elected as our new mayor, and already anti-Semites seem to feel they own the city.
This morning, images began circulating of a Jewish school in Brooklyn defaced…
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