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The It is a tense time in the Jewish family group chats.

The consensus had held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down. That

consensus roughly was this. What is good for Israel is good for the Jews. Anti-Zionism is a form

of anti-Semitism. And there will someday soon be a two-state solution that reconcile Zionism

and liberalism. At the very least,

Israel is seeking such a solution. Every single component of that consensus has cracked.

And as I've been talking to people from different walks of American Jewish life. Politicians and rabbis and activists and

journalists, what you realize is there is nothing coming in to replace it. Young Jews look at Gaza

and say, everything I was taught in religious school tells me this is wrong. People who want to say,

I just want to extricate Zion from Judaism.

You do that, you get a different form of religion.

I was sort of like hit by this,

it was almost physical.

Like, this is the question of this moment in Jewish history.

Zora and Mamdani's triumph in New York City's Democratic primary for mayor

has forced, among many Jews, a reckoning, a reckoning with how far they've drifted from one another, how little they now understand each other.

Mamdani doesn't use a slogan globalizing defada, but he does not condemn those who do, although he more recently said he would discourage it.

Mamdani said that if he were mayor, Benjamin Netanyahu,

the prime minister of Israel,

would face arrest on war crimes charges if he ever set foot in New York City.

And then a few weeks before the election,

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