ORANGE COUNTY (VINnews) — A Hasidic man who had an appointment at a Toyota Service Center in Orange County on Monday morning, was asked to leave without getting service.
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When he confronted them, pointing to the fact that he had an appointment, and they were clearly servicing other customers, he was told “because you are spreading the virus.”
The Toyota center has been identified as Johnstons Toyota in New Hampton, NY.
Watch the video below and see for yourself.
I’ve listened to the audio, I couldn’t hear the guy refusing service since HE spreads the Virus, I only heard him saying IT’s BECAUSE OF THE VIRUS, though still not justified
I mean he is probably right. Jews didn’t take precautions and have it
It is a federal crime, under the Public Accomodations Act (Civil Rights Law of 1964), to deny service to a customer because of their race, color creed, or national origin. A complaint should be filed with the U.S. Attorney’s office, which services Orange County.
And the mechanic is 100% right. these idiots made their bed by not caring about potentially infecting others, now they can lie in it. Screw them
No antisemitism here. Duh. If you weren’t dancing in the streets holding hands at a wedding, Thank your brothers who look just like you who did so.
It’s called a Chillul HaShem.
Now you wonder why people ask you to leave?
LOL. JK NOT Laughing.
After the post of a yeshivah in Lakewood spreading the virus by vos IZ neias is it a wonder ?
After the post of a yeshivah in Lakewood spreading the virus by vos IZ neias is it a wonder ?
You give fodder for all the antisemites with your social media posts showing What appears as FRUM Jews spreading the virus .
I’m sure you heard that if there is one ventilator and Jew and gentile are in need the gentile has precedence because the Jews are shown on social media as bringing it upon themselves
Sorry NO ANTI SEMITISM HERE!
You would do the same if you would see another minority group publicly disregarding and disrespecting the government and Healthcare community, in public. If you where not one of those, release blame THEM for the repercussions. And dont call it antisemitism.
THIS GUY MUST WRITE A GOOGLE REVIEW WITH JOHNSTON’S TOYOTA, AND FILE A COMPLAIN WITH THE US ATTORNEY’S OFFICE.
Kol Yisroel areivim Zeh lezeh. We will always be blamed as a group if some of us act inappropriately. If we are in the news for still going to minyan and weddings after it was banned, this will be the outcome. You need to face reality, and come to grips with the fact that our actions will have repercussions on the rest of us.
To all of you claiming that jews were the only group that didn’t practice proper guidelines, thank you for following the guidelines as it’s apparent that you have self quarantined and not gone out. If you would have gone out to other neighborhoods in NYC and NJ you would realize that there are much larger numbers of people from other communities that totally are disregarding guidelines, in fact some neighborhoods other than some stores being closed or restricted you would not be able to tell anything is going on.
Considering the amount of social interaction that normally goes on in our community especially during such a busy season and although it can and should be better it’s amazing how much we were able to stop all of it and as a community we have isolated better than the general populace.
We jews are are own enemy to those that blame this guy who said he was dancing or went to shul that service center should be deluged with calls although I wouldn’t go get my car serviced at this time
First its a Dem Hoax. Then its just a cold. Now Jews are carriers. What next? When there’s misinformation from Dr. Trump at the start, then more conspiracies fill the void. Feh
You are a bunch of self hating Jews,
Those pictures that Governor Como showed of Social Density in NYC during Shabes, how many Chasidik people did you see in those pictures?
why are they not denied service at Johnston’s Toyota
Feel bad for the service station. I am sure he needs the business, we all need to make a living at these hard times. With all the news outlets reporting that the Chareidi population are not listening to safe procedures, why should he put himself in danger? Weddings, schools, masses of people on the street are all over the internet, who can blame him? The bad practices of some have given the frum community a horrible reputation among the world. Last year the religious Jews brought the measles, now “they” are spreading Corona.
Boroch- the people who are still making minyanim and congregating in Yeshiva’s should be taken to court
So according to you commentators we should not allow gays into our businesses for they spread AIDS and other diseases. Will you all scream homophobic.
This guy should start a major lawsuit.
אזוי ווי מען בּעט זיך אזוי שלאפט מען
The guy getting kicked out is satmar
It is incredible how many self hating Jews there are on this site. One esteemed commentator, when referring to the Chassidim, actually wrote “screw them”. Such hateful comments give further ammunition to the goyim to go out and attack Chassidim, and other frum Jews. There was an incident on Avenue L and East 7th St, the other day, when an anti-semite tried to run some Jews over near a Shul. If he didn’t like the way they were congregating, he could have filed a complaint. I don’t like the way certain elements of our society play their loud boom box rap music, on their car radios in the summer, either. However, I don’t try to run them over for doing so.
I don’t understand VIN post a video fro Dr.Zelenko saying that all hasidic jews has the virus and now u claiming this dealership is a Antisemite? You spreading Antisemitism with Dr.Zelenko videos and they are antisemitic ok it’s amazing we the jews making claims and we have issues with others taking our claims seriously.
I don’t think anyone should be discriminated against – but we should ask ourselves – “Did I back away from any Asian people when we first heard that the coronavirus came form China?”
It’s a big mistake to make generalizations. I’m a frum Jew and I haven’t left my home for over 5 days now. I’m still allowed under current restrictions to go grocery shopping, and yes I’m missing few things but for now I’m doing with out. Big deal. That doesn’t mean all the reform Jews are locked up. You just can’t tell them apart from general population.
The person should file a complaint with the better business bureau.
SUE SUE, for spreading rumors. Who spread the virus in WASHINGTON STATE and California.
I work oin a hospital and I have to fight to work from home.
Everyone: give them a 1 star rating on Google Reviews
Here we go once again dismissing reprehensible behavior by Jews by screaming Antisemitism!
There are hundreds of reports and thousands of comments all over Frum sites and on FB how Chasidim totally ignored all warnings, regulations and gov’t laws regarding closing things and social distancing. We hear how the number of cases in their communities have skyrocketed. But of course it’s not because of the that. It’s because of “Antisemitism” And we wonder why people hate Jews? Not only do Jews not have to follow the laws but Jews can also hide behind “Antisemitism” to spread the disease to others. Pathetic! Keep wondering why more and more Jews are saying how they themselves are becoming Antisemites.
True story: I have a goyisha coworker who both her and her boy friend had fever this week. They both hoped on a flight and went to Florida over the weekend.
Apparently, Johnstons would rather not have the business. All concerned people in Orange and Rockland counties should remember this after the virus passes and take their business elsewhere where they can get service regardless of race, religion or creed.
i can’t blame the worker at Toyota for thinking that way about jews but to come out say it and deny service is a different level altogether
and if a federal case isn’t made the least is the community should remember this after this is all over and not purchase, lease patronize this establishment stay away if they don’t appreciate your business now don’t give it to them at all!!
and VIN news showing unbecoming behavior from our community doesn’t help matters in improving our standing in the eyes of others and defiantly contributes to us being looked at negatively
at a time when we need to be introspective and better ourselves showing the wrong behavior on a public forum should be shunned and shameful..
All this talk about not giving business to Johnstons Toyota is meaningless. Most people lease and the leasing agent goes where he gets the best deal.
The person involved should make a Federal complaint. They should also be outed by the NYS Governor and the never there Attorney General, a women who is never there for Jews.
you can blame certain news sites like YWN for spreading videos and flyers, especially the ones that are false click-bait, directly causing this problem
Yes. Let’s have Jewish news sites that don’t report news. They can only report what looks good for Jews. VIN should limit stories to “Moshie said Tehillim with Extra Kavanah” and “R. (name withheld for Tsnius) helped her Mommy set the table for Shabbos.”
When your in an army and wearing the uniform the enemy has the right to kill you. You can’t say because it’s the soldier down the road shooting at you, and not me, you can’t hurt me.
When your part of the Army of Hashem (not the Chabad one) and are wearing the uniform, expect people to treat you as a group.
If a large part of your group are ignoring the health regulations, expect to be treated as one who is also ignoring the regulations.
As to why others that aren’t following the rules aren’t being discriminated against, it’s because they aren’t wearing the identifying uniform.
Just a suggestion – having viewed the responses on numerous stories relating to the virus and community compliance or lack thereof – I humbly request the moderator to suspend ALL responses for the duration. The mischaracterizations, ad hominem attacks, and virulent self-hatred projected at others, paints a societal picture that that does not reflect the true nobility of the vast majority of our people. If we truly wish to get past this plague, we must cleanse our own home first. How appropriate as we prepare for Pesach!
Are people refusing to service the Irish because of media reports of packed bars on st. patricks day? Are college aged kids being discriminated against? I haven’t seen one report on either of those while those stories were reported on far more than what was happening in our community. Not to mention gov Cuomo talking about the lack of social distancing all over Manhattan. Chris from Johnstons toyota wasn”t wearing a mask even though he was coming in contact with people the entire day and obviously wasn’t doing this out of an abundance of caution. He would love to deny service to jews every day and today he happened to have an excuse. Textbook anti semitism.
He can sue and get himself a free Toyota
Yes
Have any neturei karta members returning from annual pilgrimages to iran been caught with coronavirus? I suspect that iran was the source of much of this disease in this community.
Toyota spends million of dollars on advertising if they are caught violating civil rights of minorities, religious Jews may boycott Toyota unless Johnson Toyota loses their franchise. If it’s true both US Attorney General and the NY State Attorney General should get involved. The parent company is the one to sue if they are looking for money.
The guy was rude. He should have spoken nicely to the customer and said I am sorry but we are not taking any more car services as of this time and the other customers have been asked to leave also. I am NOT standing for this type of behaviour from anyone. I will boycott that company and bash all the staff up. NO ONE aand I mean No One stops a Jewish person from doing anything legal. I will take down that company now. I’m very annoyed.
I am suing that company for anti semitism. I will burn out that company and kick all the staff in.
Question:
If it is Antisemitism to react as this dealership did, out of a fear of contamination born from public reports of the Chareidishe community’s well documented irresponsibility in scorning distancing protocols…and the community’s exploding infection rate…
…then why is it not racism to fear Black teenagers walking down a City street at night?
One way or the other, both are born out of not totally unreasonable fears.
To all those silly idiots commenting.. I live in kj and we are Bh all fine. there is the least cases here Bh with no death so far. To those who wouldn’t enter the car because it’s someone from kj you should think what you say cuz you might be the carriers one day and we will not wanna be next to you. Our schools, stores and everything are closed and everyone is really cautious. So better think before you talk, don’t talk what you think and of course what you don’t.
ENOUGH ENOUGH ENOUGH!! All this Loshon Hara and Sinah needs to STOP, NOW! We are in Mashiachs times and want him to come, Fargin…And just Daven