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By Tim Balk
In the final days of the New York City mayoral campaign, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has vocally argued that the race’s front-runner, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, poses a threat to the city’s Jewish community. But on Sunday, under a grove of oak trees at the northwest corner of Central Park, dozens of Jewish New Yorkers gathered with the goal of combating Mr. Cuomo’s closing pitch.
They wore blue and yellow T-shirts that said “New York Jews for Zohran.” Many of them were young. They hoped to show that Mr. Mamdani had “not fringe but mass Jewish support,” said Eliza Klein, 28, the New York City organizer for Jewish Voice for Peace Action, a Jewish anti-Zionist organization that has endorsed Mr. Mamdani.
Beth Miller, the group’s political director, said Mr. Cuomo was “flattening” the city’s Jewish population. “He is talking about the Jewish community as though we have one political opinion and one voice,” said Ms. Miller, 38. “And that’s simply not true.”
Another canvasser, Alicia Singham Goodwin, 33, the political director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, said Mr. Cuomo’s approach was “cynical” and was “turning off a lot of Jews.”
On Sunday, the canvassers knocked on doors on the Upper West Side, a neighborhood with a large Jewish population — and where Mr. Cuomo beat Mr. Mamdani in many precincts in the Democratic primary.