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The Mamdani Exodus
Yoni Weinberg
October 13, 2025

… That weekend’s [WhatsApp] debate splintered the group in a way I’d never seen before. The topic: Is New York still good for the Jews, or is it time to flee? Several admitted they no longer felt safe. Some had already left town; others were making plans. They spoke of losing jobs, being disinvited from friends’ birthdays, and even being assaulted at a party for wearing a Jewish star necklace. To them, New York had already “fallen.”…As I observed the back-and-forth, I couldn’t shake one thought: Were these the same conversations our grandparents and great-grandparents had in Europe during the pogroms or in 1930s Germany as fascism rose? Those who left Berlin before the Nazis took power must have seemed alarmist to their friends and family, who looked around at a progressive city where Jews were prominent in film, theater, music, science, and business, much as they are in New York City today. READ MORE

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