A prominent New York rabbi is calling on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to push for legislative action that would prohibit demonstrations from being held directly outside houses of worship.

Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding based in NYC, said he had a “productive” conversation with Mamdani less than two days after the headline-making, chaotic protest outside the Upper East Side’s Park East Synagogue on Nov. 19.

Pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered that evening to oppose a scheduled event at the synagogue by Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that assists Jewish immigration to Israel. The protesters uttered slurs such as “Globalize the Intifada” and “Death to the IDF,” leaving many Jewish and non-Jewish New Yorkers outraged. Days after the protest, Police

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