Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The story out of New York City reports how some Jewish and Christian leaders invited Mamdani to speak and appeared to endorse him for mayor.
Let’s take a look at that. What is really happening?
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Let’s take a look at that. What is really happening?
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These religious and communal leaders are assuming that Mamdani will win and become mayor. So, they are preparing by trying to appear that everything is OK, in the belief that they will be safer and experience fewer problems if Mamdani sees them in a good light, so to speak.
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Think back into history, how Jewish leaders in the ghettos and shtetls of Europe would bow and scrape and praise their local lord in the hope that they would not be treated badly.
Old habits die slowly — even when no longer as appropriate."
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Old habits die slowly — even when no longer as appropriate."
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