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June 18, 2020

New York City’s Mayor Welds Shut the Gates of Parks—but Only in Jewish Neighborhoods

De Blasio’s ongoing callousness to Jewish citizens.

Less than two months after using Twitter to reprimand the Jewish community for violations of social-distancing regulations at a ḥasidic funeral—which occurred with permission from municipal authorities—New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered that the gates of public parks be welded shut, ostensibly to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But most of these parks were in neighborhoods with large populations of Orthodox Jews, while parks in other areas were left open to the public. This act of discrimination, writes Eliezer Brand, comes on the heels of many insults to the city’s Ḥaredim:

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