How alliances between Black and Jewish voters are reshaping one New York district
Eliot Engel’s unlikely defeat by progressive insurgent Jamaal Bowman signaled shifts within an electorate that straddles wide income divides in the Bronx and southern Westchester and is 30% Black and 20% Jewish. Men walk past the Yetev Lev temple on Nov. 23, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
December 22, 2020
NEW YORK (RNS) “There’s a perception out there and for good reason that the Orthodox community is monolithic,” said Sasha Kesler, who identifies herself as a Modern Orthodox Jew. “And becoming increasingly conservative. But it’s not.”