Curtis Sliwa
“You let the chips fall where they may,” New York voter Jay Etzel told JNS at Sliwa’s Election Night watch party. “But at least you had the hero ready. Heroes don’t back out.”
“Everyone likes him in Zohran’s camp and people hate him in Cuomo’s camp, because everyone wants to blame others except themselves for what’s gonna happen,” the Israeli-American rapper told JNS.
The former New York governor asked Mamdani why he supports BDS against Israel but not Uganda.
“I’m sorry that we have to feel isolated in our own city,” the former governor and mayoral candidate said.
“The overwhelming majority of Sliwa supporters would not touch Andrew Cuomo with a 10-foot pole,” the Sliwa campaign told JNS.
Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, told the frontrunner that “Jews don’t trust that you are going to be there for them when they are the victims of antisemitic attacks.”
“Any congregation that will accept Zohran Mamdani over Yom Kippur is not a Jewish congregation,” Liel Leibovitz, editor-at-large of “Tablet” magazine, told JNS.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s advisers have considered possible administration roles for Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa, per news reports.
“Take care of your fellow Jews, because if you don’t, there’s a good chance nobody else will,” the Guardian Angels founder and Republican told JNS.
In the district that includes the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn—home to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement—Adams trounced opponent Curtis Sliwa, receiving 15,340 votes to 1,503.
Volunteer group Guardian Angels patrols Brooklyn after anti-Semitic attacks
Curtis Sliwa, who founded Guardian Angels in New York City in 1979, said that patrols would start in the neighborhood of Crown Heights, and expand to Williamsburg and Borough Park.
