Amid calls for his resignation, the governor is relying on a shrinking circle of advisers to help him navigate the biggest crises of his political life.
“Is He Jewish?”
AS MY GRANDMOTHER’S
ALZHEIMER’S progressed, she became fixated on two questions. When my sisters and I visited her at the memory-care facility, she always asked if we had boyfriends. If the answer was yes, she had a follow up: “Is he Jewish?”
Up until just a few months before her death, my grandmother attended Friday night services at our Reform synagogue almost every week with the help of an aide. By the time I was old enough to wonder what kept her coming back belief? The music? The social scene? it was too late to ask. But long after she’d lost the ability to remember much about our lives where we lived, who was doing what at work or in school she continued to ask about our romantic partners. My family joked, darkly, about the extent to which the communal imperative of Jewish reproduction had become ingrained in her psyche, a stalwart train of thought that hung on even as other memories fell victim to disease. Our answers to “Is he Jewish?” w
Cuomo bows to demands for AG probe after Dems reject watered-down proposals
James sought straight referral to probe allegations against governor
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Under fire statewide from leaders of his own party, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday changed course and proposed a review of the sexual harassment allegations made against him, to be conducted by an investigator chosen by the state attorney general and a Cuomo-appointed judge.Karlin, Rick / Times Union file photo
ALBANY At the end of a tumultuous day, state Attorney General Letitia James demanded and received a referral from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to oversee a full investigation of the sexual harassment allegations made against him in recent days by two female former staffers.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, joined a growing number of Democrat and Republican politicians calling for investigations into Cuomo She said his accusers deserve to be heard.