People who have learned to turn their gazes away from the pain of people far away ultimately turn their gazes away even from the pain of those closest to them

Mamdani's attendance at the Satmar sect event signals a growing closeness to the group, whose leaders partly supported him in the mayoral race. President Trump also sent a letter to Satmar leaders: 'Together, we will continue to usher in the Golden Age of America'

By supporting despicable laws enshrining their exemption from army service, the political leaders of Israel's million-strong ultra-Orthodox community are betraying a core tenet of mutual responsibility. But the real reason for their indifference to the rest of the Jewish world isn't about theology at all