Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a friendly welcome to New York from one Jewish organization: Representatives of Neturei Karta, the tiny anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox sect, came to meet him and congratulate him on coming to the city.

This was the Neturei Karta delegation's third meeting with Ahmadinejad. Their previous meeting took place during his Holocaust denial conference in Tehran last year. Their participation in that event drew harsh reactions, and some delegates were later ostracized in the ultra-Orthodox community.