January 5, 2026 Mayor Zohran Mamdani City Hall New York, New York, 10007 Mayor Mamdani, This letter serves as formal legal notice, a spoliation warning, and a public-safety advisory regarding your action in Executive Order No. 2, which directs that the NYC Police Commissioner should report to the First Deputy Mayor, rather than reporting directly to the Mayor which has been the practice at least since the September 11 attack on NYC, and possibly since the Police Commissioner

January 1, 2026 Mayor Zohran Mamdani City Hall New York, New York Mayor Mamdani, It is difficult to overstate how disturbing it is that one of your very first acts as Mayor of New York City, on your very first day in office, was to delete official @NYCMayor tweets addressing the protection of Jewish New Yorkers. At a moment of unprecedented antisemitic intimidation, violence, and exclusion in the City the decision to erase official statements affirming the safety and protecti

Photo credit: South African Jewish Report The legal storm surrounding United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has intensified, with the United States-based National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) confirming that she has now been served electronically in a US civil lawsuit after a messy attempt in Johannesburg last weekend. “We also served her over email and at her office so there would be no excuses,” said Mark Goldfeder, the director of the NJAC. Goldfeder told

Photo Credit: thecrimson.com Two Jewish advocacy groups filed amicus briefs this week in the Trump administration’s legal clash with Harvard, which has sued 11 federal agencies for freezing nearly $3 billion in research funding. The National Jewish Advocacy Center filed a brief on Wednesday siding with the Trump administration and challenging Harvard’s argument that the funding cuts violated its First Amendment rights. The nonprofit’s brief argued that the federal government