Mamdani Revamps Hiring After Old Antisemitic Remarks Prompt Aide to Quit NYT | Top Stories Jeffery C. Mays 20 December 2025 at 06:46 Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he did not know about the antisemitic posts and would not have hired the woman who made them if he had. © Heather Khalifa for The New York TimesCatherine Almonte Da Costa, left, resigned a day after Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed her to oversee administration hiring.
Emily Korzenik, 96, Dies; Rabbi Took a Bar Mitzvah to Poland NYT | Top Stories Adam Nossiter 20 December 2025 at 06:46 Part of the first generation of women ordained in America, she presided over the first bar mitzvah in Krakow, still scarred by the Holocaust, in decades. It did not go smoothly. © Thomas McDonald for The New York TimesRabbi Emily Faust Korzenik in Stamford, Conn., in 2003. For 25 years she presided over the Fellowship for Jewish Learning, a congregation there.