Mamzarani just made ONE wise move: nixing the Jew Lander's job hopes

 

Here’s one Zohran Mamdani move we can cheer: The mayor-elect has apparently kicked Brad Lander to the curb.

Some will see this as ingratitude: After rushing to ally with Mamdani in the Democratic primary, the about-to-be-ex-city comptroller zealously thumped for him these last few months — essentially serving as Team Zohran’s “house Jew,” pulling out all the stops to paint the antisemitic socialist as kosher.

Lander had been notoriously angling for some top administration post, but per CNN he’s “out of the picture,” perhaps because (by some accounts) he’d been bragging about running City Hall if Mamdani won.

That certainly sounds like Lander, who’s a lot better-known for his arrogance and ambition than for anything resembling a principle.

So, while no one will mistake us for Mamdani fans, we’re glad to see the mayor-elect showing some good sense here.

It’d be another matter if Lander got pushed out because the far-lefties feared he might moderate Mamdani, but Lander never met a radical cause he couldn’t embrace.

He’s made a fool of himself with his theatrics — including getting himself arrested — in protest of Team Trump’s totally legal ICE raids.

Most despicably, for all his claims to be a “proud Jew” who supports Israel, he couldn’t even bring himself to unequivocally condemn the Democratic Socialists of America’s anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rally the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

The rally was “abominable,” he admitted, but he also reiterated his call for “an end to the [Israeli] Occupation.” (Note: No Israeli had been in Gaza since 2005.)

CNN also reports that Mamdani thought Lander wasn’t “particularly effective as comptroller.”

We’d totally agree, albeit likely for opposite reasons.

Whatever the case, Mamdani’s made one smart move.

Too bad that Lander is likely the last lefty he’ll reject.

Top NYC rabbi issues chilling dire warning on Mamdani: ‘Does not believe in coexistence’

 

A top New York City rabbi has issued a chilling now-viral warning after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win: The pol’s positions on Israel may “severely threaten Jewish safety everywhere in the city.”

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch delivered his blistering take on the radical extremist in a fiery sermon at his liberal Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on the Upper West Side on Friday.

Hirsch claimed Mamdani’s “opposition to Israel is existential."

“He believes that Israel has no right to exist at all — as a Jewish state in any territory,’’ the Manhattan rabbi said.

Hirsch, president of the New York Board of Rabbis, explained that he and other “prominent and liberal” rabbis went with “open hearts and open minds” to a one-hour meeting with the then-candidate in August.

He said they left horrified by his dangerous positions on Israel.

Throughout the meeting, the rabbis’ moods “steadily darkened,” Hirsch said.

“And our fears increased.”

Mamdani, who founded a controversial Students for Justice in Palestine chapter while in college, is a “dogmatic opponent” to the Zionist ideal, Hirsch said. 

“He is not simply a critic of Israel,” said the rabbi, who moved to Israel as a teen and served in the Israel Defense Force.

“He does not believe in coexistence” or “two states for two peoples.”

Despite relentless accusations of antisemitism, Mamdani, a 34-year-old Muslim immigrant and supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, captured one-third of Jewish voters in the city to win the mayor’s race last week, according to exit polls.

The mayor-elect has repeatedly refused to condemn the phrase “Globalize the intifada,” widely seen as a call to violence, and espouses extremist positions indistinguishable from Israel’s “most implacable foes,” according to the rabbi.

Hirsch compared the dangerous ideology to that of terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah and their supporter, Iran.

During the religious leaders’ meeting with Mamdani in August, security was the focus as the group expressed the “fears of New York Jews” if he were elected. 

The rabbi warned that a phalanx of security alone can’t protect the Jewish community — only a safe environment can. 

“You could put 50 police officers outside this building,’’ Hirsch told his congregants. “If the overall atmosphere is hostile to Jews, it will severely threaten Jewish safety everywhere in the city every day.

“And history has proven conclusively that what starts with Jews never ends with Jews. The city itself will become much nastier and much more violent,” he warned.

“And that is the main threat from the ideologically driven anti-Zionism of Zohran Mamdani.”

Congregant Ronen Schwartzman told The Post on Sunday that he’s “proud” of his rabbi for “being vocal when you need it.

He’s very pro-Israel and not afraid to speak up — a big contrast to the Reform movement, who don’t always support” the Jewish state,’’ the man said.

Some city Jewish activists championed the “progressive” rabbi’s speech, too.

“He is unafraid to speak the truth,” said Israel activist Lizzy Savetsky on social media. “We need more Jewish leaders like this.”

Stefanik rips Hochul for endorsing the Satmar Endorsed ‘raging antisemite’ Mamzarani while accepting award from pro-Israel organization

 

Republican gubernatorial candidate Elise Stefanik ripped into Gov. Kathy Hochul Sunday night for endorsing “raging antisemite” Zohran Mamdani for mayor as she accepted an award from a prominent Jewish group.

“We know we are at a tipping point when the most important city in the world elects a raging antisemite, defund the police, tax-hiking Communist as mayor,” Stefanik said during the annual gala of the Zionist Organization of America.

She alleged that Mamdani vowed to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said his “family history and political ideology is steeped in sympathy for suicide bombers and terrorists.”

“A mayor who said Hamas should not lay down their arms. A mayor who campaigned with the unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing that killed New Yorkers. This, from the person who will lead a city with over 1 million Jewish people. And this mayor was endorsed by none other than the weakest and Worst Governor in America, Kathy Hochul,” Stefanik raged.

Rep. Stefanik, the House Republican Leadership chairwoman, received high praise at the event in the Ziegfeld ballroom from billionaire Miriam Adelson, whose late husband, Sheldon, founded the Las Vegas Sands casino and resort company.

She vowed not to stand silent while the mayor-elect and members of the Democratic Socialists of America “spew hatred” toward Jews.

“At the very moment that New Yorkers were looking for strength and moral clarity, our weak Governor Kathy Hochul, the Worst Governor in America, showed weakness and endorsed the jihadist for Mayor. She propelled him to this office, putting every Jewish New Yorker at risk,” Stefanik said.

This Chareidie Minhag to Humiliate a Lady has to be stopped

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Is this really what we call a mitzvah?

A kallah, on the holiest day of her life, is paraded in front of over a thousand chassidim—her face covered, yes, but her dignity exposed. And in this particular clip, it’s her own father spinning her around, making her visibly dizzy. Is this what we mean by tznius?

We hear constant preaching about modesty, about preserving dignity. But where is the modesty in turning a sacred moment into a spectacle? Covering her face doesn’t erase the humiliation—it amplifies it. It’s as if she’s being reduced to a prop in a performance, not honored as a bride.

And the most troubling part? The kallah likely doesn’t even feel humiliated. That’s the tragedy. When a culture normalizes public discomfort and calls it holiness, the ability to recognize what’s inappropriate gets lost.

Let’s be honest: if this happened in any other society, we’d be outraged. But because it’s cloaked in religious ritual, we stay silent. It’s time to ask ourselves—are we preserving tradition, or are we distorting it?

Did Israel just release 200 Terrorists in exchange for Golden's Body..... Israel denies!

 

Exclusive reporting by i24NEWS reveals that American-Palestinian mediator Bishara Bahbah claims preliminary understandings have been reached between Israel and Hamas following the return of the remains of fallen soldier Hadar Goldin.

According to Bahbah, Israel has agreed not to detain or interrogate the involved Hamas operatives, and Goldin’s body was released on the basis that the terrorists would be granted safe passage to Hamas-controlled territory.

Israeli officials, however, insist that no official decisions have been made regarding the fate of the terrorists. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office declined to comment on the matter.

Chareidie IDF Recruit "My Shabbos Beneath Hamas Snipers" in Gaza

 

I got the call from my company commander shortly before sundown on Friday afternoon.

“They need someone to help tonight in Gaza. The convoy leaves in ten minutes. Can you go?”

I had already showered and put on my clean uniform in honor of Shabbos. My six-hour guarding shift at our base near the gates of Gaza was almost over, following a four-hour emergency standby. I was thinking through the Torah idea I planned to share in the base shul that night.

But the army was sending crews every evening to install sophisticated security systems on the guard towers of forward outposts inside Gaza. Because the roofs are exposed to Hamas sniper fire from less than half a mile away, they only work under cover of darkness. Every night they wait means another day our soldiers’s lives are endangered, so Jewish law requires the work to continue on Shabbos too.

So I grabbed my helmet, borrowed a bulletproof vest, and ran to the mission commander’s warehouse to help load the truck. The commander, a weathered lieutenant colonel who’d been doing this since before I was born, looked me over, pointed to a large box, and barked: “Are you strong enough to lift this?”

I picked up the box—it wasn’t that heavy—and was thus officially accepted for my first active mission in the heart of Gaza, together with two other rookies who had just joined the army with the Shlav Bet program for older ultra-Orthodox volunteer soldiers.

As our Hummer bumped into Gaza, with the last rays of Friday melting into Shabbos, I couldn’t help but laugh at the strangeness of it all. I’m the guy who hires a fix-it man for anything more complicated than changing a lightbulb, and now I was deployed in the world’s most advanced army to secure Gaza—on Shabbos—using cutting-edge sensor technology.

After more than 11 years, Lt. Hadar Goldin Z"L’s body comes home!

 After more than 11 years, Lt. Hadar Goldin Z"L’s body was returned to Israel.

 The Givati Brigade officer was killed and abducted by Hamas on August 1, 2014, during a humanitarian ceasefire in Rafah. 

Hamas retrieved his body from a tunnel in an IDF-controlled area and handed it to the Red Cross, which transferred it to the IDF and then to Abu Kabir for identification, finally bringing closure to his family.

When Tzadaka Organizations Shamelessly Exploit Gedoilei Hador !

by Boruch Clinton

I’m not a complete stranger to the complex and demanding process required for baking hand matzah. Having spent some time years ago watching the highly professional process at the famous Montreal matzah bakery, I can tell you that serious operations would never look anything like the chaos in the image above.

The picture itself came as part of a donation appeal from a kollel. To put it mildly, I was not inspired to donate. Let me explain why.

In a real matzah bakery, water (not to mention saliva blown out the business ends of clarinets) is a carefully controlled substance. The moment the first drop touches flour, the 18 minute timer starts ticking. I can’t imagine any responsible rav allowing such a half-hearted dribbling flow out of an 8 ounce cup.

In fact, adding water to the flour is done with military precision. The Montreal bakery has a narrow alcove containing a stand on which an empty mixing bowl is placed. Both sides of the alcove contain windows opening into separate rooms. The windows are nearly always sealed with shutters.

On a signal, one of the windows is opened and a man reaches out to pour the carefully calibrated volume of flour into the bowl. The window is closed. On a second signal, the “water window” is opened and the perfect amount of water is quickly poured.

One man per window. No crowds, no children, no drama. And what’s with the shtreimel: are they baking on Shabbos?

But what I found the most disturbing was the fact that, as far as I can tell, these people dragged an elderly talmid chochom away from whatever he would have preferred to be doing to be used as a prop in a fake bake-off that’s all part of some perverse fundraising gimmick. That’s hardly כבוד התורה and it doesn’t speak well of the organizers’ priorities.

But that’s not all. A few months later, a member of the B’chol D’rachecha family sent me this image:

If you can’t make it out, that’s a bottle of wine with a label featuring its own familiar image. The claim is that the wine comes from the siyum on Shas from R’ Kanievsky’s final year and that drinking from it would guarantee (ידועה ובדוקה) salvation, income, shidduchim, and sons.

I’m told that one of those bottles could be yours for the low, low price of just $140.

That there are entire industries built on the shameless exploitation of Torah scholars’ reputations is pretty awful. But that there are enough sufficiently naive Jews out there to make those industries profitable is really sad.

 

Josh Rosenberg writes his personal journey growing up Chassidish breaking away from Yisddishkeit and then finding his way back to faith

 I recently published my memoir, Re-Orthodoxed — a deeply personal story about growing up Chasidic, breaking away, and ultimately finding my way back to faith and meaning in Israel.

 I wrote it over many years and in memory of dear friends who tragically took their own lives after facing similar struggles.

Link to buy the book

Mamzerani admits in an interview with a Reform Rabbi that he holds with the Satmar Shita that Israel shouldn't exist

 

Well, he didn't outright say it, but there isn't any daylight between the Satmar Shit'ah and the Shit'ah of Mamzerani! 

Rabbi @AmmiHirsch sat down with Zohran Mamdani.
He came with an open mind.
He left with a pit in his stomach.

Zohran made it crystal clear:
He doesn’t believe Israel has any right to exist.
Not within the ‘67 lines.
Not within the ‘48 borders.
Not at all.

That’s not “policy… pic.twitter.com/vulzUjBbLC

— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) November 8, 2025