More than 650 rabbis across the US signed a letter expressing alarm about a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty’s impact on the Jewish community — just hours before the final debate in the race for City Hall Wednesday.
The letter, released by the Jewish Majority , was signed by 121 rabbis in the Empire State, including more than 60 in New York City.
“We are writing in our personal capacities to declare that we cannot remain silent in the face of rising anti-Zionism and its political normalization throughout our nation,” the rabbis said. 4
“When public figures like New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani refuse to condemn violent slogans, deny Israel’s legitimacy, and accuse the Jewish state of genocide, they, in the words of New York Board of Rabbis president Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, ‘De