Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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(JNS) — New York woke up in November to a political earthquake. Zohran Mamdani is now mayor-elect. For years, he tested how far he could push extremist rhetoric into the mainstream. And this week, some told him he could go all the way. No one smoothed that path more than comptroller Brad Lander. Lander has perfected a certain New York political aesthetic: soft-spoken, earnest, quietly dangerous. In his eagerness to win favor with the loudest ideological blocs, he embraced Mamdani’s worldview long before New Yorkers realized just how truly rad...
(JNS) — Call it was it was. The attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, at the start of the eight-day holiday of Chanukah was not random. It was not a “disturbance.” It was not an isolated violent incident untethered from global events. It was not an unfortunate individual suffering from mental illness. It was a terrorist attack, carried out against Jews, on a Jewish holiday, in a moment deliberately chosen for its symbolism. Jews everywhere understood that immediately—because we always do. On the very first day of the “Festival of Lights...
