Abe Wieder

Isac is a little perplexed why Andrew Cuomo has not paid a Shiva call to the late son of Abe Wieder, mayor of the Satmar stronghold of Kiryas Joel.

Yesterday Eliot Spitzer and Mark Green showed up. Hillary Clinton, Charlie Rangel, Denny Farrell, and Jeanine Pirro have paid their respects, either in personal visits or phone calls.

Isac said that he personally called Cuomo on Wednesday to tell him about the death of the mayor's son, and pointed out that Cuomo also "dissed" (yep, Isac said dissed) the Satmar community by not paying his respects when the Grand Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum died in April.

Cuomo's campaign hasn't returned a call about Isac's thoughts.

- Jason Horowitz

Compared to recent weeks of laying low, apparently for fund-raising, Jeanine Pirro's last couple of days have made for a virtual frenzy of campaign activity. She was scheduled on Monday to meet with an editorial board, attend a woman's luncheon appear at a mixer at the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce.

Today, she's heading out to the Satmar stronghold of Kiryas Joel to pay her respect's to Boruch Wieder, 36, the late son of mayor Abe Wieder.

--Jason Horowitz