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South Florida mayor, city council pass resolution supporting Israeli defense

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Christi Fraga, the mayor of Doral, Fla., in Miami-Dade County, and the Doral City Council unanimously approved Resolution 24-5675, which advocates for Israel’s right to defend itself and urges for further U.S. military support. The measure also...

Los Angeles mayor failed to protect Jews amid ‘pogrom’ at shul, critics say

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Early Sunday morning, The Los Angeles Times dubbed Karen Bass “mayor of the city of the eternal future” in a profile in its “L.A. Influential” section that spoke of “Los Angeles’s first female and second black mayor” as “instantly...

Miami mayor helps remove anti-Israel graffiti from kosher bagel shop

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Surveillance camera footage showed a man in a dark hoodie and shorts spray-painting “free Palestine” in red multiple times on the windows and door of Holy Bagels & Pizzeria, a kosher restaurant in Miami,...

Delegation of US mayors visit Israel, talk to families of hostages

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The mayors of cities in Massachusetts, South Carolina and Oregon returned last week from a four-day visit to Israel, where they met with political officials, business leaders, academics and regional experts. The three U.S. municipal leaders—Jon Mitchell,...
Susan Hall in 2018. Credit: London Assembly via Wikimedia Commons.

UK Conservative Party candidate says London mayor ‘frightens’ Jews

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Susan Hall, a Conservative Party candidate in the United Kingdom running to be mayor of London, has drawn criticism after saying that the city’s Muslim mayor scares British Jews. “I know how frightened some of the community...
Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi. Photo by Judy Lash Balint.

Sderot flourishing in the crosshairs of Hamas terror

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In any other country, Sderot would be just an idyllic, well-maintained small town. But in southwestern Israel, less than a mile from the border with Gaza, it’s all that as well as a place...
Attendees at the celebration at Gracie Mansion sponsored by New York City Mayor Eric Adams in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, May 24, 2022. Photo by Mike Wagenheim.

Guests at New York mayor’s mansion for Jewish Heritage Month note rise in anti-Semitism

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“I was ready for just about anything when I came to an Eric Adams party, but a Chassidic guy singing Billy Joel was not one of them.” So quipped New York City Council Member Lincoln...
Shlomo Danziger. Source: Twitter.

Surfside, Fla., elects its first Orthodox Jewish mayor

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Shlomo Danziger was elected on Tuesday to be the first Orthodox Jewish mayor of Surfside, Fla. Danziger, 42, beat two incumbents—Mayor Charles Burkett by 33 votes and Vice Mayor Tina Paul by 23 votes—and garnered...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Joel Eisdorfer. Credit: COLlive.

New York City mayor hires Chassidic senior adviser in first such appointment

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Chassidic political activist Joel Eisdorfer to be his senior adviser. Eisdorfer is the first Chassidic Jew to ever be appointed adviser to the mayor. The Borough Park...
New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams. Credit: Steve Sanchez Photos/Shutterstock.

New York mayoral frontrunner Adams gets high marks from Orthodox community

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Orthodox Jewish backers of New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams, who holds a sizable lead in the city’s Democratic primary as results continue to roll in, cite his law-and-order message as being key...