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A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Jonathan Mahler, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and author of the new book, Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990. With New York on the verge of electing a socialist, Muslim, anti-Zionist mayor, I want to ask Jonathan how the city has changed over the last three decades, and how those changes enabled the rise of Zohran Mamdani.

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Cited in Today’s Video

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, and Bret Stephens attack Zohran Mamdani.

According to CBS, Mamdani is winning 38 percent of the Jewish vote.

According to the Washington Post, 39 percent of American Jews think Israel is committing genocide.

Mamdani has called both Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin war criminals.

When apartheid South Africa’s prime minister complained about “double standards.”

Things to Read

(Maybe this should be obvious, but I link to articles and videos I find provocative and significant, not necessarily ones I entirely agree with.)

In Jewish Currents (subscribe!), Suzanne Schneider analyzes the Trump administration’s grant to a neoconservative Jewish group.

Waleed Shahid on Mamdani’s lessons for Democrats.

Nathan Thrall on what Israelis and Palestinians have learned since October 7.

Rabbi David Polsky argues that starving Palestinians in Gaza violates Jewish law.

I’ll be speaking on November 2 at Tzedek Chicago, November 6 at Columbia Journalism School, and November 10 at Congregation Tikkun v’Or in Ithaca, New York.

See you on Tuesday and Friday,

Peter

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

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