An Evening with David Bernstein on American Jews in the Wake of the Mamdani Victory

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On October 7, 2023, Israel was blindsided by Hamas—not for lack of warnings, but because officials dismissed them under a prevailing conceptzia, or fixed assumptions about Hamas. The next day, many American Jews were similarly shocked as 31 Harvard student groups blamed Israel for the massacre, exposing our own conceptzia about antisemitism, progressive politics, and the Jewish–Israel relationship.

Now, with Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York City, the progressive left holds new power in a major Jewish center. His platform—rent freezes, radical affordability, and sharp criticism of Israel—raises urgent questions for Jewish identity, communal strategy, and how our assumptions must shift to confront today’s threats to Jewish life and Israel’s legitimacy.

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