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Zohran Mamdani
continues to attract world attention after his name was included as the strongest candidate for Mayor of New York City.
However, Zohran, a Muslim immigrant of Indian descent, faced verbal attacks from President Donald Trump who called him a “crazy communist”.Even the Jewish groups that supported him were called “stupid.”
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“Any Jew who voted for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self-admitted Jew-hater, is a fool!!!!”Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Tuesday (4/11), citing Reuters.
New York Jewish Population
One of Zohran’s supports did come from New York Jewish groups, although Zohran never brought up his racial or religious identity during the campaign.He actually campaigned to improve public transportation such as the subway.
New York City is home to approximately 1.9 million US Jews according to The Jewish Cronicle 2023 data out of the city’s 8.8 million residents.
New York’s largest Jewish communities include the five boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island), as well as Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties.
One of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhoods is known as a hotbed of hipster youth and home to one of the densest Hasidic Jewish communities in New York.
In the new book, “A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg,” Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper reveal Williamsburg’s Jewish history and the clash of a devout Jewish community (Satmari) with the forces of commerce and urban development (Hasidic).
The book describes how the Satmari and Hasidi movements represented alternative versions of “New York Jews” – assimilated groups that were already heading to the suburbs when Williamsburg began to fill with Orthodox refugees from Europe during Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.
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The Jews who now live in New York, even the US, are almost all immigrants from European countries such as Russia, Germany, Poland, Austria-Hungary.
On the nationalhumanitiescentre website, it is written that the 20th century saw the emergence of the American Jewish community on the world Jewish scene.At the start of the century, the United States, with about one million Jews, was the third largest center of the world’s Jewish population, after Russia and Austria-Hungary.
About half of the country’s Jewish population lives in New York City alone, making it the most populous Jewish community in the world, more than double the population of its closest competitor, Warsaw, Poland.In contrast, just half a century earlier, the United States had only 50,000 Jews, while New York’s Jewish population stood at around 16,000.
Immigration has been the primary driver behind this extraordinary boom in the American Jewish population.By 1900, more than 40 percent of American Jews were recent arrivals, with ten years or less in the country, and the largest wave of immigration still lay ahead.
Between 1900 and 1924, another 1.75 million Jews immigrated to American shores, mostly from Eastern Europe.
Before 1900, American Jews never reached 1 percent of the total American population, but by 1930 the number of Jews reached about 3.5 percent.At that time, there were more Jews in America than there were Episcopalians or Presbyterians.
After World War II, there was an even greater surge in Uncle Sam’s country.Today about 20 percent of New York Jews identify with the Reform movement, 19 percent say they are Orthodox, 15 percent consider themselves Conservative Jews, and 47 percent do not identify with any Jewish religious denomination.
Young Jews supporting Zohran
Zohran Mamdani is supported by young Jews who strongly oppose racism.Wearing blue and yellow t-shirts that read “New York Jews for Zohran”, the majority of members of this young community are fighting various stigmas.
Eliza Klein, as the coordinator of an anti-Zionist Jewish organization in New York, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, hopes that the action which took place in Central Park can show that support for Mamdani from the Jewish community is not small, but rather broad support.
Meanwhile, the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Beth Miller, criticized Cuomo for always attacking Mamdani for his pro-Palestinian views during the campaign.He said Cuomo “underestimates the political diversity of the Jewish community” in New York.
Immigrant Jews
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