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Dec. 12-18, 2025 • Vayeshev • 22 Kislev 5786 • Vol. 24, No. 40
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Time to make the latkes!
Try a new spin on Chanukah’s staple. Kosher Kitchen, p. 12
If you suspect a ‘Mamdani-type’ is emerging in your community:
Trust your instincts CHARLES JACOBS and
DILLON HOSIER
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e have spent years documenting the systematic infiltration of anti-Israel activists into state and local government. We’ve published an analysis of the pipeline that moves candidates from campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine
to city councils and state legislatures. We’ve built the Mamdani Index to track and score officials nationwide. We have warned that while traditional pro-Israel organizations focus on Congress, a parallel political infrastructure is being constructed beneath them
— one school board, one city council, one state legislature seat at a time. This article is the field guide. Whether you’ve noticed something concerning about a candidate in your community, identified a See Trust your instincts on page 2