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Protesters have marched near the Israeli consulate in New York City over issues including the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews into Israel’s military

Religion has become a defining issue in the New York City mayoral race as Jewish New Yorkers reject Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani's positions on Israel and war in Gaza.

Mamdani’s defense of Palestinian liberation has alarmed many New York Jews. But some rabbis are enthusiastically embracing, and even campaigning for, the Muslim mayoral candidate.

From Satmar Hasidic leaders to progressive congregations, Zohran Mamdani has undertaken an intensive outreach effort to Jewish New Yorkers.

Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and favorite to be elected this week as mayor of New York City, is opposed to Israel’s government and existence as a Jewish state and subscribes to democratic socialist politics that are anathema to the RJC’s values.

Zohran Mamdani is leading the New York City mayoral race against Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa as rabbis warn he poses a danger to Jewish New Yorkers.

Rabbi Danny Schiff had a rule: no national letters.The community scholar of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh avoided open statements about far-off politics. But this month, he broke that rule—for a mayor’s race nearly 400