Nachman Caller

Nachman Caller describes himself as a proud yeshivah graduate and a graduate with honors from Columbia Law School.[6] He practices as a real estate attorney; a 2014 report described him as a real estate and tax attorney, a 2025 BK Reader article called him a real estate attorney and community advocate for Borough Park, and City & State has described him as an Orthodox lawyer.[3][7][8] According to his campaign website, he has more than three decades of service to the Boro Park community and has helped develop thousands of housing units there as a real estate investor and attorney.[6] The site also says he advocated for tax breaks for landlords and developers building rental apartments, fought the construction of casinos in the Catskills, and produced a 16-page housing plan.[6]

Caller ran for State Assembly in 2014 on the Republican and Housing & Jobs Party lines, challenging incumbent Dov Hikind in the 48th District, and lost.[1][7] He serves as a Republican district leader.[3] In the May 2025 special election for this Senate seat he ran on the Republican and Conservative lines and lost to Sam Sutton.[9][2][3][8] He advanced from the Republican and Conservative primaries on June 23, 2026.[1] He narrowly won the 2026 Republican primary over Bernard Vaiselberg and also carried the Conservative Party line; his campaign said it was built around housing development and support for yeshivas.[1][2][6][3] He received 35.1% of the vote to Sam Sutton's 64.5%, according to unofficial results reported by Ballotpedia and Wikipedia.[2][4]