Posted on 01/08/2026 5:17:32 AM PST by Libloather
Freshly sworn in Council Speaker Julie Menin on Wednesday said she’ll push to restrict protests outside synagogues and other houses of worship — as one of her first official acts of office.
It comes after growing worries from the Jewish community with Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s day one move revoking or rescinding city policies aimed at combating antisemitism.
Menin — who will serve as the first Jewish speaker of the legislative body — said she expressed to the mayor that there was “concern” among New York Jews over his decision to repeal or rework the executive orders issued by his predecessor Mayor Eric Adams.
“I spoke directly to the mayor about that — those executive orders, because when the original executive orders were rescinded, there obviously was concern within the Jewish community,” she said during her first official press conference as speaker.
The two orders nixed by Mamdani — alongside a host of other Adams-era directives — included one to amend the definition of antisemitism and another that banned city employees from protesting the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement towards Israel.
Mamdani later re-issued an executive order to maintain the Mayor’s Office of Antisemitism — which directed the police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, to look into creating safe perimeters around houses of worship cordoning off demonstrators.
But Menin contended that wasn’t enough.
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To late, just get in the boxcar for your relocation. NYC voted for this, embrace the suck.
Who knows? Maybe the Top Democrats and agitators like De Nero might even flee NYC now....
The subway train Is the new boxcar. People of all faiths are exterminated there. Keeping it under the surface. Killers above and below. Protect yourself.
He needs the support of the Council to do his insane things ?
The New York Mayor has direct power over a limited number of things, such as NYC Police, sanitation, parking, etc...
The rest of the power of the office, over things like transport, or health-care, range from “some” to “none at all,” sharing with others like the city council, the state, various Federal agencies, independent commissions and state-corporations.
The idiot leftist fools who voted for him expecting ‘revolution,’ will become very disappointed, very soon.
This should be fun. I wonder, however, if the speaker is a religious Jew or just a Jew in name only who’s a Marxist, and thus will push the anti-Semitism language but not defend actual Jews when they are attacked by the mayor’s Islamofascist allies
Some people in NYC SHOULD be very disappointed, having voted Mondumi. By the way, how is his last name really spelled? I’ve seen it at least 3 different ways. I thought it was Mumdani, but seeing it different since then.
Impeach madmani.
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