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A Quizbook of Jewish Trivia Facts & Fun
A Quizbook of Jewish Trivia Facts & Fun
Former policeman and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was recently installed as the new mayor of New York City. The inauguration traditionally takes place at noon on New Year’s Day. But because New Year’s Day was on a Saturday, Adams had rescheduled the ceremony to New Year’s night after the end of Shabbat to enable Jewish supporters to attend. Ultimately, however, Omicron led the city to cancel the large indoor ceremony, and Adams proceeded with a small outdoor event in Times Square on Friday night, New Year’s Eve, thus undoing Adams’s effort to accommodate the Jewish community. What else has Eric Adams done in his career to strengthen his ties to New York’s Jewish community?
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A. Following the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, then Brooklyn Borough President Adams announced that he would carry a gun whenever he visited a synagogue.
B. On the Sunday morning following his inauguration, Adams celebrated by visiting the Barney Greengrass deli, where he ordered the restaurant’s signature dish, Nova Scotia salmon scrambled with eggs and onion.
C. During the Crown Heights riot of 1991, Eric Adams was a New York City policeman. He joined with Jewish members of the New York City Police Department to call for calm, and he expressly criticized Al Sharpton and other black leaders for their involvement in violent anti-Jewish marches through Crown Heights.
D. Last month Mayor-elect Adams honored the Grand Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson by visiting the Chabad house in the Ghanian capital of Accra.
E. Following his diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes in 2016, Adams adopted a plant-based diet and began to advocate for vegan and plant-based nutrition. As part of that effort he led the New York City Council to pass a resolution titled “Ban the Baloney,” calling on schools to stop serving processed meats. After being contacted by leaders of New York’s Orthodox community, he added a clause that still forbid Orthodox Day Schools from serving cold cuts, but allowed mothers to send sandwiches from home for their children, in what Adams called the “Mommies Send Salamis” rule.
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