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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Mamdani’s Rosh Hashanah message emphasizes ‘every New Yorker is safe and cherished by the city they love’
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Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the heavy favorite to win the New York City mayoral election in November, issues a Rosh Hashanah message in which he emphasizes the importance of every resident feeling “safe and cherished by the city they love.”
Mamdani is a harsh critic of Israel who has alarmed many New York Jews with his anti-Israel rhetoric.
He begins the message by noting that the Jewish year 5786 is beginning, which “speaks to the endurance of this faith over millennia, its resilience despite wave after wave of persecution.”
“The sounds of the shofar will echo across every corner of our city,” he says.
Mamdani says the Jewish community will soon mark Yom Kippur by atoning and looking inwards: “It’s a tradition we could all do well to emulate.”
The mayoral candidate concludes by declaring the importance that “above all every New Yorker is safe and cherished by the city they love,” an apparent reference to the concerns of some in the Jewish community.
“Shana tova, New York,” he says, using the Hebrew greeting. “Have a sweet new year.”
Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year. pic.twitter.com/U8MEa8Ddlw
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) September 22, 2025
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