The mayor is simply trying to erase civic involvement by the city’s Jews. Appallingly, more than 30% of the city’s Jews voted Mamdani into office. Today, the Israel wedge is also being used to marginalize Jews in New York by splitting them off from mainstream society. Judaism holds that the Jewish people were given a Divine command to establish a righteous society in the land of Israel. That means teaching the Jewish community, particularly the young, essential truths about Judaism and Jewish history in the land of Israel.