The dust certainly won’t settle for quite some time. New York City’s mayoralty has been decided, but we don’t yet know if the Jewish community’s fears regarding Zohran Mamdani are truly warranted or not. That is, the fears that led many New York City rabbis to, amid some controversy, take to their pulpits to affirmatively urge their congregations to vote against him.

Without question, the rabbis who did so were extremely well motivated. Mamdani’s past commentary has uniquely presented an urgent — in the word of many, “existential” — concern for New York City’s Jewish population, the largest outside of Israel. Hopefully, the mayor-elect is being honest when he now says that it is his true intent, as mayor, to protect, “celebrate” and “cherish” New York’s Jewish population.

We will likely

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