As we all know, there are those in our communities who are supporting Cuomo for NYC Mayor as an evil, albeit a lesser one, vis-a-vis Assemblyman Mamdani, in their (flawed, in our view) analysis. As we've explained on our radio program repeatedly over the past several weeks, we argue that their arguments are encumbered by faulty presumptions about the relative dangers presented by Cuomo vis-à-vis Mamdani. However, that's not our focus at the moment. (Cuomo, given his experience, contacts, and persona, actually poses a considerably graver danger of successfully implementing much of what Mamdani flamboyantly talks about, beyond what Cuomo has already perpetrated in those areas, including spiking crime.)
Unfortunately, some who purport to represent our views and/or interests are supporting Cuomo as a good person, a "friend" (sic) of our communities, כביכול, a qualified leader - whom we ostensibly should support per se', not just as a lesser evil. Such support for a one-man crime-wave - especially under the guise of Orthodox "leadership" - is disgusting beyond description.
Some Background:
Predictably, some of the community organizers aligned with Cuomo, for their own self-centered reasons, opted early on to collaborate in the unforgivable political rehabilitation of the prime-mover behind same-sex marriage (SSM) in NY - Andrew Cuomo.*
[* Passage of SSM in NY in June 2011 predictably led to a cascading effect, culminating in reaching a critical mass of supporting - enabling five miscreant judges on the US Supreme Court to get away with sanctioning SSM four years later (in the infamous June 2015 Obergefell edict).]
This is no minor objection, as you may imagine reading some of what passes for news reportage in some quarters. Recognition of SSM triggered the annihilation of the world via the Flood, as Chazal exhort us (Midrash Rabbah 23:9 on Va'Yikra 18:3). Rav Shmuel Faivelson, ZT"L, talmid muvhak of Rav Aharon Kotler ZY"A, over two decades ago, explained the Gemara in Chullin 92b - stating that writing same-sex marriage contracts is a sin that even the depraved amongst the nations of the world have traditionally avoided. He related that this Gemara indicates that the entire existence of the world is predicated on compliance with that prohibition. Once they they start undermining observance of that core commandment - they endanger the very existence of civilization.*
{* This is precisely what I meant when I was prominently quoted in the media years ago stating that recognition of SSM poses an "existential threat."}
To rehabilitate Cuomo after all of his iniquities, including his pivotal role in SSM - and after his subsequent, well-deserved, and miraculous fall from power - is an unforgivable evil.
Additionally, the aforementioned askonim behind the exhumation of the political career of Cuomo have been promoting someone who's ego-driven run - in a race he had almost been guaranteed to lose - is perhaps the biggest asset for the Mamdani campaign. Cuomo's greatest accomplishment heretofore had been that he's impeded others - far more qualified (=less criminal) - from getting a fair chance to put up a realistic opposition to Mamdani.
To those self-serving individuals, we offer congratulations: "You Pick Spoilers"...
Whatever happens - we must never, ever forget what Cuomo did, and, more fundamentally, what he is. The same applies to those inexcusably enabling him as a good person, who is a "friend" of the Jewish community.
We urge all recipients to please share this in the manner you deem fit, and to please consider doing what you may be able to do to counter this horrific חילול השם בפרהסיא.
We dare not forget:
מאריך אפיה - וגביה דיליה.
And:
מידה טובה מרובה (ערש"י על המשנה מכות סוף דף כ"ג ע"א).
Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,
Executive Director,
Help Rescue Our Children
845.642.1679
Direct: 771.215.8892
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