JTA - New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick for a crucial City Hall position resigned on Thursday, shortly after her history of antisemitic posts on X came to light.
Mamdani had announced his appointment of Catherine Almonte Da Costa as director of appointments, responsible for staffing City Hall, on Wednesday. But on Thursday, several posts on X where she peddled age-old antisemitic stereotypes were published by the Judge Street Journal, a Substack about New York City politics.
“Money hungry Jews,” Da Costa posted on a now-deleted account on X in January 2011, when she 19 years old.
In another post from June 2012, she wrote, “Far Rockaway train is the Jew train”.
“I spoke with the mayor-elect this afternoon, apologized, and expressed my deep regret for my past statements,” she said in a statement shared by the Mamdani transition team. “These statements are not indicative of who I am. As the mother of Jewish children, I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused. As this has become a distraction from the work at hand, I have offered my resignation.”
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For the record - the Baalei Mussar also spoke against money hungry Jews but they were certainly not Jew haters.
It all depends on context.....:-).
For the record - I know plenty of Jews who are hungry for money but only because they don't have money for basic expenses.
As for "Far Rockaway train is the Jew train". It isn't???
"As the [non-Jewish] mother of Jewish children" - How did she work THAT out?? Maybe based on some complicated sugya in Yevamos.
Now that she has more time - maybe she can get her name legally shortened. It is a mouthful. Like Cate Costa.
