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New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams joined Jewish Community Relations Council CEO Mark Treyger squeezed into a kosher bakery Tuesday morning to begin an annual hamentashen crawl. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/B5otABU

Mayor Zohran Mamdani fiercely condemned the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and the killing of Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday, calling the attacks “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.” 🔗 Full story here: buff.ly/7nyHo7h

Taxi ads against antisemitism are taken down Full story: buff.ly/6ypmv2w

Brad Lander, who is challenging Rep. Dan Goldman for his Manhattan and Brooklyn district, got a boost from Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a video singling out their opposition to AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/jfp8EaP

Synagogue ‘buffer zones’ bill is watered down ahead of first NYC Council hearing 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/TnvZl6V

Staffers’ anti-Israel posts continue to haunt NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/DhW00pn

Dan Goldman, in heated NY-10 primary, defends his pro-Israel stance as consistent with his ‘progressive values.' Goldman’s challenger, Brad Lander, has put the congressman’s AIPAC endorsement front and center in his campaign to unseat him. Full article: buff.ly/Rd41GFK

NYC’s new antisemitism czar says she aims to ‘expand the communal table by pulling up additional chairs’ 🔗 Read the full interview here: buff.ly/BRm5MD9

Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced questions about the city’s budget from lawmakers in Albany on Wednesday, but he was also grilled about antisemitism. 🔗 More: buff.ly/D3oPVHt

Brad Lander’s congressional campaign has cut ties with its highest-paid consultant who also founded the “Hot Girls for Zohran," after Jewish Insider uncovered that he circulated conspiracy theories about Israel on social media. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/UJkSVai

Bill Aron, photographer of Jewish countercultures, gets his due in a sweeping retrospective A new Center for Jewish History exhibit spans five decades of images — from the heyday of the havurah movement to the fading glory of the Jewish LES. 🔗 Read it: buff.ly/pFHupBS

New York City’s only Ethiopian-Israeli restaurant has closed its doors for regular dining, citing the backlash it faced during the war in Gaza. 🔗 Read the full article here: buff.ly/vmgB0iN

Nadler and Pelosi split over his successor 🔗 Full story here: buff.ly/9eMoqUU

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A 17-year-old student at Renaissance Charter School in Queens has been arrested for allegedly sending antisemitic emails. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/VUOs6GA

‘Worried’ is ‘Broad City’ meets ‘Girls’ meets zillennial Jewish anxiety. The TV pilot, starring Gideon Adlon and Rachel Kaly, just opened at Sundance. buff.ly/wIPxvL0

A new exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a child survivor and lifelong skeptic of easy truths “And That’s True Too” traces the New Yorker writer’s arc from Kindertransport to Manhattan, where she dazzled with her novels, short stories and children’s books. buff.ly/zmIJMQS

The doors were repaired at Chabad’s headquarters. But the sense of security is still broken. Questions and concerns reigned in Crown Heights about the man charged with ramming the building. buff.ly/TOedJhj

A bipartisan antisemitism task force grows in the NYC Council, rivaling Mamdani’s office Plus, why legal challenges loom for Julie Menin’s proposal to manage protests outside synagogues. buff.ly/HCWxjms

Man arrested after ramming car into 770 Eastern Parkway, Chabad’s Brooklyn headquarters No one was injured in the incident, which drew NYPD chief Jessica Tisch and Mayor Zohran Mamdani to Crown Heights. buff.ly/znCW0Qm