For the first time in my adult life, I'd rather live in New York City than Miami Beach

Pragmatic, Socialist mayor, greater diversity, sensible Jews rather than Israel Firsters...but could Eleven handle the cold?

New York City’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, condemned the attacks on Saturday as “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal act of war of aggression.”

Mr. Mamdani, a Democrat, added: “Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.”

Brad Lander, the former city comptroller who is running for Congress, had even stronger words on Sunday.

“This is an illegal war being waged by a sociopathic president whose goal is to distract people from his failing administration,” Mr. Lander said.

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Julie Menin, a Democrat and the first Jewish speaker of the City Council, stopped short of agreeing with Mayor Mamdani but criticized President Trump’s unilateral action, saying, “The Constitution entrusts Congress with the solemn responsibility to decide questions of war and peace.”

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Etan Mabourakh, a Jewish Iranian American who is on the board of the organization Brooklyn for Peace and serves as an organizing manager with the National Iranian American Council, said, “Iranian Americans who don’t want their homeland bombed need to be heard in this moment.”




“When they bomb elementary schools, killing 85 schoolgirls, that doesn’t bring freedom and democracy,” he added, referring to a strike in southern Iran on Saturday.