New York Politicians Have Fostered Chaos by Singling Out Orthodox Jews
Cracking down on synagogue attendance while turning a blind eye to protests.
October 9, 2020
New York Politicians Have Fostered Chaos by Singling Out Orthodox Jews
Cracking down on synagogue attendance while turning a blind eye to protests.
On Tuesday, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo announced neighborhood-specific lockdowns in areas with high rates of coronavirus infection, making explicit the fact that these “red zones” hold large concentrations of Orthodox Jews, and threatening synagogue closures if restrictions aren’t observed. In response, anti-lockdown protests erupted in ḥasidic parts of Brooklyn last night, resulting in at least two instances of intrareligious violence. Jonathan Tobin writes that, although the problem of Orthodox noncompliance with social-distancing measures is a real one, Cuomo—like New York City’s hapless mayor Bill De Blasio—has needlessly encouraged anti-Jewish hostility:
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