New York Daily News

Gov goes ethnic in a church talk

- Noah Goldberg and Leonard Greene

GOV. CUOMO went to a black church and made an awkward joke about Jews on Palm Sunday.

“I’m a Catholic,” Cuomo told parishione­rs at Harlem’s Mount Neboh Baptist Church.

“Catholics basically believe the same thing as Baptists believe. We just do it without the rhythm. But we try. We try. We are not as without rhythm as our Jewish brothers and sisters.”

Cuomo went on to single out Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, a former campaign adviser who is Jewish, who was sitting in the front row wearing a yarmulke.

“I was just watching Mr. Sheinkopf here in the front row, moving to the music,” Cuomo said. “It was ugly. It was ugly.”

Cuomo, touting his progressiv­e credential­s, doubled down on his attacks on the city’s public housing and jail systems — calling both glaring examples of racial and economic inequality.

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