NEW YORK — Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, a leading figure in the US Reform movement, warned Friday about threats posed by New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and about divisions in the local Jewish community wrought by the contentious election. “Some fear that in the most Jewish city in the world, we are becoming strangers once again. I share many of those fears,” Buchdahl told her congregation, the Reform Central Synagogue in Manhattan. She expressed fears about the normalization of anti-Zionism, the demonization of Israel, of children feeling ashamed to identify as Zionist or wear Jewish symbols, and how anti-Zionist...
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