(Sept. 4, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani got a \u201cwarm welcome\u201d from Borough Park residents and local leaders when he visited Eichler\u2019s Judaica on Wednesday ahead of Rosh Hashanah, a City Hall spokesman told JNS.<\/p>\n
Sam Raskin, a spokesman for the mayor, told JNS that Mamdani was \u201cproud to visit Borough Park ahead of the High Holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Eichler\u2019s Judaica, the mayor spoke with shoppers preparing for Rosh Hashanah and heard directly from community members about the issues facing the neighborhood and how the administration can best support its residents,\u201d Raskin said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe mayor was grateful for the opportunity to wish everyone a shanah tovah and a happy and healthy new year,\u201d the spokesman told JNS.<\/p>\n
At the store, Mamdani met with Avi Greenstein, CEO of the Borough Park Jewish Community Council, as well as Rabbi Yaakov Landau and Hirsch Meir Traube, who owns the Borough Park Eichler\u2019s store. The store is separately owned from the Eichler\u2019s location in Brooklyn\u2019s Midwood neighborhood.<\/p>\n
While Mamdani was at the store, a woman identified as Stephanie Benshimol called out to the mayor, \u201cStop the antisemitism! You have all the power to stop the antisemitism. I\u2019m begging you to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unidentified people tried to nudge her away from Mamdani.<\/p>\n
Raskin told JNS that Benshimol does not live in Borough Park, and he disputed the suggestion that she was a shopper who happened upon the mayoral visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was not a shopper who was passing by,\u201d Raskin told JNS. \u201cShe came directly to the shop.\u201d<\/p>\n
The City Hall spokesman told JNS that the Mamdani administration is \u201ccommitted to ensuring Jewish New Yorkers can live openly, proudly and safely in every neighborhood of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat commitment is reflected in the administration\u2019s actions, including increasing hate-crime prevention investments by more than 800% and the expansion of the Mayor\u2019s Office to Combat Antisemitism, which will soon release the nation\u2019s first-ever municipal plan to root out antisemitism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The only Orthodox Jewish member of the New York City Council stormed out<\/a> of the first meeting of the council\u2019s new Task Force to Combat Antisemitism in April after Phylisa Wisdom, executive director of the Mayor\u2019s Office to Combat Antisemitism, said that City Hall\u2019s policy is not to define hate, including Jew-hatred. The director of the office under the prior mayor told JNS<\/a> that the office was going in a \u201ca new ideological direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Sept. 4, 2026 \/ JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani got a \u201cwarm welcome\u201d from Borough Park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-338455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}