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A group of social justice rabbis, including a transgender rabbi who reportedly mingled with Iran’s president and was kicked out of the Biden White House for hijacking the event to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, headlined an ad to get “Jews for Zohran” to go out and vote in the waning days before the New York City mayoral election.
Rabbi Abby Stein, who is transgender, was one of the four rabbis who were featured in the “Jews for Zohran” advertisement shared on social media by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), which has been accused by the leader of the Anti-Defamation League for being “out of touch.” The other rabbis who spoke in the advertisement included Emily Cohen, Miriam Grossman and Rachel Goldenberg.
“As Jews, as rabbis, as New Yorkers, we believe that all people deserve to thrive. Zohran agrees,” they say in the ad.
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Four progressive rabbis headline an ad urging Jewish voters to support NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. (Getty Images)
Stein co-authored an article in “Autostraddle” following a 2024 Pride Month event at the White House under former President Joe Biden, in which she and another protester, a former White House staffer, described the incident where she hijacked Jill Biden’s speech to yell about a ceasefire in Gaza. The pair were ultimately escorted out of the event.
Stein has also been criticized over her affiliation with Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during the United Nations General Assembly in October 2024. Stein reportedly participated in the event, which aired on Iranian state television, alongside several Iranian officials, such as Pezeshkian, just days before Tehran launched hundreds of missiles at Israel amid the country’s offensive in Gaza.
Other attendees of the event reportedly included members of the ultra-orthodox Haredi group Neturei Karta, which has members who oppose the existence of an Israeli state.
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The other rabbis in Mamdani’s advertisement include Cohen, whose official biography on Manhattan’s West End Synagogue’s website states her profes