At Jewish Heritage Month event, mayor rails against antisemitic CUNY speech

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At Jewish Heritage Month event, mayor rails against antisemitic CUNY speech

Post by JohnUbele » Fri Jun 02, 2023 5:55 am

"...Kalman Yeger, another Jewish city councilman, praised Adams for speaking out against antisemitism while acknowledging that the problem is getting worse in New York City.

"What's new is the existential crisis that we're seeing and what it means to be a Jewish New Yorker today," he said. "We see it in my neighborhoods, where if you walk around with a yarmulke, you're likely to get smacked. We see it on the subways, where if somebody is sitting there minding their own business, they're gonna get called a, "dirty Jew"..."

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https://www.jns.org/jns/new-york-city/23/6/1/292268/

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