AMI Interviews Dan Goldman Running for Congress And wouldn't ask him his postion on Israel!

Dovid Lapinsky of AMI Magazine published a six‑page Shavuos‑edition interview with Congressman Dan Goldman, who is running in the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th District. His opponent is Brad Lander — a self-hating Jew whose record and positions in the Jewish communities' view as deeply hostile to Jewish interests.

This isn’t a city‑council race. A congressional seat shapes national policy, foreign aid, and America’s stance toward Israel. That makes the omissions in this interview all the more astonishing.

I don’t know much about Lapinsky personally, but one thing is clear: the interview was crafted in a way that avoided the single most important question on the mind of every frum Jew reading a Shavuos edition of a Jewish magazine:

“What is your position on Israel?”

Not one question. Not one paragraph. Not one line.

Instead, AMI opens by telling us that Goldman keeps kosher — as if that alone answers what voters need to know. I would rather he eat treif and vote like a Jew should!

So let’s spell out Goldman's record on Israel, since AMI chose not to:

1. He is openly hostile to Prime Minister Netanyahu, despite Netanyahu being elected in a fair democratic process.

2. He opposes Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, supporting restrictions on where Jews may live in their own ancestral homeland.

3. He supports a Two‑State Solution, a proposal repeatedly rejected by Palestinian leadership themselves.

Is Goldman better than Brad Lander? Many would say yes. But he is still firmly aligned with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, whose positions on Israel are increasingly troubling.

Which brings us back to AMI.

Why didn’t Lapinsky — or Yitzy Frankfurter — ask even a single question about Israel in a feature interview with a sitting congressman, printed in a frum magazine, on Shavuos of all times?

Do they believe Israel is irrelevant to their readership? Do they think the safety of millions of Jews in the only Jewish state is a side issue? Or were they simply unwilling to press a Democratic politician on positions that matter deeply to the Jewish community?

Whatever the reason, the result is the same: a missed opportunity, and a failure to provide readers with the information they deserve.

And in the end, voters will make their own decisions — and many may well choose the Republican candidate in November, especially if Goldman loses his primary.