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A rally in Queens

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, a longtime advocate of LGBTQ rights and anti-Trump activist , campaigned with Zohran Mamdani for the first time at a huge rally on Sunday.

Mamdani also stood with Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a trifecta of the country’s Muslim, Jewish and Christian progressive stars — at the Queens Forest Hills Stadium, where nearly all 13,000 seats were filled.

The generational torch of democratic socialism was on show, with 34-year-old Mamdani crediting 84-year-old Sanders for his meteoric rise. He told the crowd, “I stand

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