NYC Mayoral Forum with Andrew Cuomo

When former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's staff contacted me to say that he was eager to be a guest on "In These Times," of course, I immediately accepted.

We are in the midst of an important mayoral campaign in New York — with local, national, and even international ramifications. Moreover, as this podcast focuses on issues important to the American Jewish community, the opportunity to spend close to an hour in intimate conversation with the former governor — and, according to recent polling, the leading candidate for mayor of our city — constitutes a rare opportunity to probe deeply into the issues that are important to Americans and American Jews.

In the course of our conversation, I asked Gov. Cuomo what is at stake in the coming years — for New Yorkers, New York's Jews, and America at large...

I hope you'll tune in to hear this important conversation wherever you get your podcasts.