Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Fast Forward ‘None of you should be seen at these protests’: Satmar rabbi denounces Borough Park protests
(JTA) — A leader of a major Hasidic sect denounced protests earlier this month where local Orthodox Jews voiced their anger at lockdown measures targeting their neighborhoods. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, leader of a faction of the Satmar Hasidic community based in Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic enclave in New York’s Orange County, denounced the protests Tuesday…
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Fast Forward NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: I regret how I handled that Orthodox funeral in April
(JTA) — With tensions high between Orthodox Jews and New York officials, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed regret Tuesday for how he handled a large Hasidic funeral in the pandemic’s early days. Back in April, after a large funeral for a local rabbi in Brooklyn drew thousands of Orthodox Jews into the…
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Fast Forward Governor Cuomo moves to close yeshivas — and possibly synagogues
(JTA) – In the latest tug of war over how to handle rising COVID-19 cases in New York City, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered schools in nine ZIP codes to close starting Tuesday. That deadline is a day earlier than that set by Mayor Bill de Blasio — and equally irrelevant for the hundreds…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, who ruled medical marijuana is kosher, tests positive for COVID-19
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the foremost rabbinic leaders in the haredi Orthodox Jewish community in Israel and a major authority for communities in the United States, tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Yeshiva World News. The 93-year-old rabbi was tested after multiple members of his family tested positive, as did his personal driver….
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Fast Forward Major Satmar Hasidic leader ill with COVID-19, on ventilator
As COVID-19 test positivity rates continue to climb in Orthodox communities in New York, a major leader of the Satmar Hasidic sect was put on a ventilator Wednesday morning after becoming critically ill with COVID-19, according to Yeshiva World News. Flyers circulated online Wednesday morning calling for prayers for Mayer Rispler, a community leader in…
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Fast Forward ‘Significant concern’ about COVID-19 rise in largely Orthodox neighborhoods in NYC
(JTA) – Six heavily Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens are currently contributing 20% of all new COVID-19 cases in New York City, and rising cases there is cause for “significant concern,” city health officials announced Tuesday. The new data comes amid signs of growing alarm in New York City’s Orthodox communities about the possible…
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News Day schools open with safety precautions, plans for closures
(JTA) – For the Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in suburban Chicago, it took just three days of in-person instruction last month before two staff members tested positive for COVID-19, sending the school back to remote learning for six days. Now they’re back in the classroom. That experience of opening, closing and reopening is likely to…
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Fast Forward COVID spikes in NYC Orthodox neighborhoods, large weddings eyed as culprit
(JTA) – Rising fears about a second wave of coronavirus cases in New York City’s Orthodox communities appear to be coming to pass, with the proportion of tests turning up cases of the disease more than four times the citywide rate in one heavily Orthodox neighborhood in newly released data from late August. Meanwhile, rising…
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