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We need a ‘Great Schlep’ from Park Avenue to Park Slope to turn out Jews against Zohran Mamdani

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove's sermon argues that Zohran Mamdani's anti-Zionist rhetoric poses a significant threat to New York's Jewish community. 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 IdentityZionismAnti ZionismJewish Self DeterminationAndrew CuomoZohran MamdaniNew York Jewish CommunityRabbi Elliot CosgroveGreat SchlepElection Mobilization

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New York, United States
"Mamdanis refusal to condemn inciteful slogans like globalize the intifada, his denial of Israels legitimacy as a Jewish state, his call to arrest Israels prime minister should he enter New York, and his thrice-repeated accusation of genocide in last weeks debate for these and so many other statements, past, present, and unrepentant he is a danger to the Jewish body politic of New York."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"For me, the damning moment came in a statement he made to a Brooklyn synagogue last week, when he sought to assure that community, as reported in the press, that his views on Israel would not amount to a litmus test for service in his administration."
United Kingdom
"This past summer, you may recall, at the Glastonbury Music Festival in England, the crowd erupted into chants of Death to the IDF."
Colorado, United States
"His doing so is to traffic in the most dangerous of tropes, an anti-Zionist rhetoric that, as we have seen time and again in Washington, in Colorado, in ways both small and large, online and in person has given rise to deadly antisemitic violence."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"His doing so is to traffic in the most dangerous of tropes, an anti-Zionist rhetoric that, as we have seen time and again in Washington, in Colorado, in ways both small and large, online and in person has given rise to deadly antisemitic violence."
Israel
"In our highs and in our lows, in our tortured angst and our fragile hopes, in our prayers and our protests, we feel our connection to Israel and its people."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Second, these Jews feel strongly that they are not voting for the Mayor of Jerusalem and therefore local issues preempt everything else like finding a job and living well in the city in which they were born without having to spend 50% of their monthly paycheck on rent."

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