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A rider choked her, ripped out her hair, and screamed “Jews are eating kids.” Rabbi says Mamdani never said a word.

Rabbi Ingber of Romemu condemns Mayor Zohran Mamdani for not publicly addressing a violent antisemitic attack on a Jewish woman aboard a C train, calling it a failure of leadership.

A rider choked her, ripped out her hair, and screamed “Jews are eating kids.” Rabbi says Mamdani never said a word.

Rabbi Ingber of Romemu condemns Mayor Zohran Mamdani for not publicly addressing a violent antisemitic attack on a Jewish woman aboard a C train, calling it a failure of leadership.

The founding rabbi of Romemu, a major synagogue with locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, published an op-ed in the New York Daily News on June 8 calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to publicly condemn an antisemitic physical attack on a Jewish woman aboard a C train.

According to the op-ed, the woman was approached by another rider who began ranting about “Jews stealing wealth,” then choked her, kicked her to the ground, and ripped a clump…

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