The most famous former resident of New York City summed up the state of the mayor’s race succinctly. In the words of President Donald Trump, it’s “not looking too good” for either man trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from being elected mayor on Nov. 4.

It’s this growing realization that—barring an unexpected development—the Democratic Socialist and inveterate opponent of the existence of the State of Israel is going to be sworn in come January as mayor of the world’s largest Jewish city outside of Israel that is setting off something like panic among the city’s Jews.

The seriousness of the situation is illustrated by the fact that the concern about the future of Jews in a Mamdani-led Gotham isn’t confined to the political right. Even leading liberal religious leaders, like Rabbi Elliot C

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