Weeks before his New York City mayoral victory, Zohran Mamdani prepares to speak outside a Bronx mosque on Oct. 24, 2025, in the Bronx borough of New York. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

On Friday night, early votes had already been cast in their many thousands for Mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani. Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, who leads the prominent Central Synagogue in Manhattan, took the occasion to slander the democratic socialist candidate, purportedly in the name of Jewish New Yorkers.

“Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has contributed to a mainstreaming of some of the most abhorrent antisemitism,” Buchdahl said.

Buchdahl didn’t cite any actual antisemitism. Her problem with Mamdani was his criticism of Israel.

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