{"id":363676,"date":"2026-10-03T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363676\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:32:08","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdanis-wife-attended-islamic-wellness-retreat-that-said-to-abolish-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363676\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Wife Attended Islamic Wellness Retreat That Said to \u2018Abolish\u2019 Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A New York Post report details past involvement by Rama Duwaji with The Women Sanctuary, drawing attention for statements about the Israel-Palestine conflict. The outlet reports Duwaji, wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, served as an artist-in-residence at the retreat during a summer session. The Women Sanctuary&#8217;s Instagram posts from May 2024 and October 2025 referenced the conflict; the New York Post noted the slogan &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; could be considered antisemitic. The retreat describes itself as offering spiritual women&#8217;s retreats embedded in Islamic tradition. Mamdani and Duwaji married in 2025; Mamdani took office in January of this year, per the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York Post report details past involvement by Rama Duwaji with The Women Sanctuary, drawing attention for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-363676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363676","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=363676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}