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A bunch of social justice rabbis, together with a transgender rabbi who reportedly mingled with Iran’s president and was kicked out of the Biden White Home for hijacking the occasion to name for a ceasefire in Gaza, headlined an advert to get Jews for Zohran to exit and vote within the waning days earlier than the New York Metropolis mayoral election.
Rabbi Abby Stein, who’s transgender, was one of many 4 rabbis featured within the Jews for Zohran commercial shared on social media by Jews for Racial and Financial Justice (JFREJ), which has been accused by the chief of the Anti-Defamation League oc being “out of contact.”
The opposite rabbis who spoke within the commercial included Emily Cohen, Miriam Grossman and Rachel Goldenberg.
“As Jews, as rabbis, as New Yorkers, we consider that every one folks should thrive. Zohran agrees,” they are saying within the advert.
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4 progressive rabbis headline an advert urging Jewish voters to assist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. (Getty Photographs)
Stein co-authored an article in Autostraddle after a 2024 Satisfaction Month occasion on the White Home beneath former President Joe Biden by which she and one other protester, a former White Home staffer, described the incident the place she hijacked Jill Biden’s speech to yell a few ceasefire in Gaza. The pair had been finally escorted out of the occasion.
Stein has additionally been criticized for her affiliation with Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian in the course of the United Nations Common Meeting in October 2024. Stein reportedly participated within the occasion, which aired on Iranian state tv, alongside a number of Iranian officers, equivalent to Pezeshkian, simply days earlier than Tehran launched tons of of missiles at Israel amid the nation’s offensive in Gaza.
Different attendees of the occasion reportedly included members of the ultra-orthodox Haredi group Neturei Karta, which has members who oppose the existence of an Israeli state.
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The opposite rabbis in Mamdani’s commercial embrace Cohen, whose official biography on Manhattan’s West Finish Synagogue’s web site states her skilled expertise “ranges from baking challah with preschoolers to herding youngsters on wilderness treks to creating curricula for grownup schooling courses on Judaism and social justice.”
Cohen has equally written about her social justice efforts on-line, together with in the course of the 2020 George Floyd riots when she chronicled how she stood between protesters and police throughout a protest in hopes the officers’ “racism and sexism” would stop them from going after anybody.
Grossman, one other left-wing social justice activist, has stated in sermons that Jewish “texts and traditions allow abortion and generally even require it” and that “pregnant folks aren’t essentially all girls.” In the meantime, in a weblog submit concerning the Dakota entry pipeline, Grossman complains that Native communities have “suffered (and continued” beneath centuries of “environmental racism.”
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s supporters collect exterior 30 Rock in New York Metropolis Oct. 16, 2025. (Fox Information Digital/Deirdre Heavey)
Queens-area Rabbi Goldenberg, the fourth rabbi featured within the Mamdani advert, can be discovered on-line in movies of her New York Metropolis-based activism or weblog posts. In a single on-line editorial, Grossman discusses how the Jewish neighborhood must be extra open to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) motion, which many pro-Israel critics have accused of being antisemitic.
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Goldenberg is the founding father of Malkhut, which says it’s aimed toward constructing a “progressive Jewish religious neighborhood” that practices “ecstatic, musical, and contemplative prayer, mindfulness meditation by a Jewish lens, research of Jewish sources, and social justice work.”
