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New York City's most famous rabbi is suddenly silent.

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, senior rabbi at Central Synagogue and a prominent voice in American Judaism, faces criticism for her silence on New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's anti-Israel rhetoric. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityJewish LeadershipReform JudaismIsrael AdvocacyPolitical NeutralityCentral SynagogueMoral IntegrityZohran MamdaniAngela Buchdahl

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New York City, New York, United States
"Yet when faced with a real test Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York who calls Israel an apartheid state, glorifies resistance, and refuses to condemn calls to Globalize the Intifada Buchdahl, the self-proclaimed voice of conscience, falls silent."
Israel
"She described the sermon as an act of teshuvah (repentance) for American Jews who had been, in her words, radically silent."

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