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NYC mayor: Calling Orthodox Jews an ‘extremist’ voting bloc is ‘horrible’
Harsh words exchanged over issues involving yeshiva education.
In Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, confusion abounds over a lack of vaccine priority
When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released a list of 33 neighborhoods that would be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccine appointments and sites, Brooklyn’s main Orthodox neighborhoods were not on it, prompting renewed accusations that he has treated those communities unfairly in regard to the pandemic.
Andrew Yang on yeshiva education: ‘We shouldn’t interfere’
Andrew Yang said he would not take action to boost secular education in yeshivas if elected mayor of New York City, staking out a position likely to win him support in Brooklyn’s Orthodox communities.
Cuomo vows to take action on Brooklyn Jewish weddings if de Blasio doesn’t
Several wedding halls in Borough Park continue to host large Orthodox weddings, despite the bans on gatherings of more than 50 people.
Criticizing Cuomo, de Blasio, judge loosens COVID restrictions on religious gatherings
“Acting as they did, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio sent a clear message that mass protests are deserving of preferential treatment.”
Jews, Christians sue Cuomo and de Blasio for violating religious freedom during pandemic
“Defendants have exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to create, over the past three months, a veritable dictatorship.”
How New York’s Haredim are responding to George Floyd protests
“You’re allowing people to gather and protest and walk the same city blocks that four weeks ago had the funeral.”
Amid pandemic, de Blasio privileging of protest over prayer lights a fire on Jewish social media
“400 years of American racism, I’m sorry, that is not the same question as the…devout religious person who wants to go back to services.”
New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has a long relationship with the city’s Orthodox community
Many Orthodox leaders came to his defense amid criticism of tweets calling out “the Jewish community” for violating social distancing rules.
De Blasio’s Tweet about a funeral soured his relationship with the Orthodox — for now
What a difference a pandemic makes — but de Blasio’s relationships with religious Jewish communities will be intact in the long term.