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The ADL on the attack
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt accused Zohran Mamdani of overlooking Jewish New Yorkers in a CNBC interview on Monday. “There are questions we should ask right now, like, this candidate has visited churches and mosques, not a single synagogue,” Greenblatt said. He also said that Mamdani has not “met any mainstream Jewish leaders in a public forum.”
The answers are out there. Mamdani went to Shabbat services with the Kolot Chayeinu congregation in Park Slope, which was co-led by progressive rabbi and activist Abby Stein, in February. T