NEW YORK (JTA) – If New York City’s mayor won’t stop weddings in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods from happening, the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said Wednesday that he will.
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“If the mayor is not doing any enforcement actions, then the state will,” Cuomo said at a news conference, according to the New York Post.
“We’ve had superspreader events in New Rochelle with the Jewish community, we’ve had them in the Catholic community. The virus does not discriminate by religious or racial lines, right? This is an equal-opportunity situation. So we police it in every circumstance.”
The governor’s comments come after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced 16 new cases last week in Borough Park, home to the city’s largest Hasidic population, with several connected to a large wedding. The New York Post also reported Wednesday that several wedding halls in Borough Park continue to host large Orthodox weddings, despite the bans on gatherings of more than 50 people, with people entering through side doors and with windows covered with paper.
Large weddings have resumed in several Orthodox communities, with some contributing to rising case numbers in a number of Orthodox hubs. The rising case numbers led several branches of Hatzalah, the Jewish ambulance corps, to issue warnings after it saw an increase in calls from people reporting COVID-like symptoms. The new cases threaten to keep schools from reopening for the fall, as well as the in-person High Holiday services being planned in several Orthodox communities.
So now Choni woke up? Where was he when stores were being looted? And the way he keeps singling out New Rochelle as though they were to blame—when he was still saying everyone should continue their lives—is shameful. And that’s besides for the blood on his hands from the old age homes.
*So now he woke up
He’s doing the right thing. I hope next is minyanim not following mask and distance rules.
Stop the radical lefty protesters first.
Just say its a soros sponsored black thugs lives matter protest
But to burn down a police precinct without wearing a mask is okay by this Italian Mafioso?
He cares so much about health yet he signed the bail law which has made New york a crime infested unlivable city where no one wants to live. That is what you get when you vote democrat.
cuomo needs a mask on his head and his brain .
I hope all those old people in the photo are OK.
The only question we should be discussing is if large weddings are dangerous super spreader events. If they are then they shouldn’t be allowed. If there is little risk then there should be no issue. Discussion of BLM and/or the Governor’s competence are not relevant.
It upsets and alarms me that so many people commenting don’t care about the health of our people! Whether or not other policies are unfair or dangerous, is it good for us to endanger ourselves? Remember all of the people, including gedolim, who died of COVID. Do we want a repeat, or to risk not being able to open schools or go to shul for the yomim noraim chas veshalom?
I don’t see more than 50 people in the picture, so it’s legal, and within the guidelines. Because the virus came to Cuomo in a dream and told him that it’s active at 51 people.
Comparing the response to Jewish weddings and to the response to protesters gathering is most certainly relevant. Selective enforcement of the law is the real issue. Blame the Jews and enforce the restrictions only on the Jews is the heart of this issue. Let’s get these 2 faced antisemitic democrats out of office.
what are the real facts & status of these ” new cases” lets hear from some docs involved
They are also not spaced properly
He is in big trouble right now because the Justice Department is investigating (finally) the nursing home deaths from Covid. He’s trying to deflect from this by suddenly acting like a governor. He would do better to put the mayor out of his misery (at least for 30 days as he’s allowed to do but never did on June 1 during the riots) and then call on the NY Supreme Court to call for a special election to get rid of the mayor permanently by calling a special election. We have another year and a half with this character. NY can’t survive. Worrying about a wedding at this point, if people are not acting responsibly, then they will pay the price. Government cannot control people even though the democrats believe in that and biden will do the same.
hardy appetite but wear a mask
wedding halls have to be built bigger from now on
People are riding buses and trains in NY yet that seems to be ok.