Hasidic NYC Synagogue Hosted Thousands in Secret for Rabbi's Grandson's Mask-Free Wedding

[Nevilledog]

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John FitzGerald
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Shocking new video shows a Hasidic synagogue in New York City hosting thousands of people for the wedding of the head rabbi’s grandson in defiance of COVID-19 regulations.

Hasidic NYC Synagogue Hosted Thousands in Secret for Rabbi’s Grandson’s Mask-Free Wedding
“Due to the ongoing situation with government restrictions, preparations were made secretly and discreetly,” a Yiddish newspaper reported after the event.
thedailybeast.com
3:26 PM · Nov 21, 2020

[marmar]

1. Oof. Guaranteed outbreak afterward.

[Phoenix61]

2. Nice to know religious assholery isn't just for Christians. nt

[MurrayDelph]

15. Nope, it's any type of fundamentalism

from fundamentalist believers to fundamentalist non-.

[Karadeniz]

3. I really don't understand their reasoning.

[lunasun]

26. Ego After all its the rabbis grandson doncha know 😟 Plus fundie Jewish RW I assume

[Ms. Toad]

4. My recollection is that the Hasidic community was at the heart of the original NYC outbreak. n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Since COVID, we all stay away from Kosher foods, just because a rabbi blesses it does not mean safe.

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Not wearing masks is not just for parties.

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[Ms. Toad]

13. Agreed as to a rabbi blessing -

but transmission via food is pretty uncommon.

It's the large family/friend/temple unmasked gatherings that make it really dangerous.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Section 6 of this report doesn't read well to me.

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I'll still avoid Tyson too.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924224420305847

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[Klaralven]

16. The Westchester suburb of Mount Vernon was earliest, but probably more Orthodox than Hasidic

But Hasidic communities in Brooklyn, Rockland County and Lakewood, NJ have been a real problem ever since.

Along with Deal, NJ, a Sephardic community. That was the home of Trump's friend Stanley Chera, an early Covid death.

[edhopper]

5. oh FFS

This is thegoddamn religious freedom Alito is crying about.
More like religious suicide.

Will DiBlasio finally speak out and do something about these lunatics?

[LakeArenal]

6. Is it all men? I only see a bride...

Jehovah must be proud.

God’s will and all.

[nilram]

12. Maybe these are the guys getting ready for the garter toss?

That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it.

[phylny]

27. They're always separated like this in public.

My father used to manage a bank in New York and was invited to Orthodox weddings. My mother would never go, and when I asked why she said she wouldn't be permitted to sit with him and would have to sit with a bunch of women she did not know.

[LakeArenal]

31. Do women wear that wooly hat? Cuz that's all I see anywhere.

[phylny]

32. Oh no.

Women always wear a hat over their wigs and/or their hair has to be covered.

They have to purify themselves in a ritual bath (Mikva) after their periods and submerge themselves at once so most if not all shave off their hair and wear a wig.

https://jewinthecity.com/2019/10/why-do-orthodox-jewish-women-shave-their-heads/

[JI7]

7. How were they able to do that in secret ?

[stillcool]

8. remember reading about this...

but didn't know they'd gone through with it.

Hasidic NYC Synagogue Hosted Thousands in Secret for Rabbi’s Grandson’s Mask-Free Wedding

Blake Montgomery
Reporter
Shocking new video shows a Hasidic synagogue in New York City hosting thousands of people for the wedding of the head rabbi’s grandson in defiance of COVID-19 regulations. Plans for the Nov. 8 event were made completely in secret: Neither city officials, who nixed a 10,000-person Hasidic wedding last month, nor the firehouse next door knew of the event, according to the New York Post. Footage depicts a packed crowd in the temple, max capacity 7,000, cheering, singing, and dancing without masks to celebrate Yoel Teitelbaum, grandson of Satmar Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelman. New York City has limited indoor religious services to 50 percent capacity and advises participants to wear masks and not to sing. Der Blatt, a Yiddish publication associated with the Satmar sect, reported on Nov. 13, “Due to the ongoing situation with government restrictions, preparations were made secretly and discreetly, so as not to draw attention from strangers...All notices about upcoming celebrations were passed along through word of mouth, with no notices in writing, no posters on the synagogue walls, no invitations sent through the mail, nor even a report in any publication, including this very newspaper.” The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community has chafed against COVID-19 restrictions and clashed with the city over the rules for months.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hasidic-nyc-synagogue-hosted-thousands-in-secret-for-rabbis-grandsons-mask-free-wedding?ref=home

[TheBlackAdder]

9. There are routine parties of 500+ in warehouses in NYC and Rockland County.

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That's why a lot in that Hasidic community are angry at DeBlassio and Cuomo for trying to impose limits.

That is party why Rockland County and NYC are having a lot of infections and businesses remained shuttered.

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[JanMichael]

22. They did it (parties of 500+) so we can too? Great reasoning. Cough cough. nt

[TheBlackAdder]

28. The parties are all Hasidic ones. That wedding was just the biggest, they often have smaller ones.

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This shit goes on weekly in various parts of the city and suburbs.

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[BrightKnight]

10. The old testament also tells us not to put God to the test. How is Psalm 91 understood

in Judaism?


I am fairly certain that the synagogue near me is as closed as my Church.

[Faux pas]

14. Way

to take down your own culture.

[JDC]

19. Assholes

[Dem4Life1102]

20. They are also Trump supporters

What a shock!

[no_hypocrisy]

21. Well, I guess THEY got the Last Laugh . . . . . . .

[lindysalsagal]

23. I keep saying it: It's us , or god.

We will be choosing, even if we refuse to choose..

[Dorian Gray]

24. They should arrest the hosts of the wedding....

and the officiant.

[dalton99a]

25. "The synagogue's own president, R'Mayer Zelig Rispler, died of COVID-19 last month"

https://nypost.com/2020/11/21/secret-plans-helped-synagogue-pull-off-massive-maskless-wedding/
Secret plans helped Brooklyn synagogue pull off massive, maskless wedding
By Susan Edelman
November 21, 2020

[Solly Mack]

29. SMH

Idiots.

Don't matter what religion you are - that's ignorance jam-packed in a death trap of their own making.