Brooklyn
Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews are acting like they have herd immunity. Could they be right?
Nearly four months after the virus first arrived, Jewish life has returned to Hasidic Brooklyn.
Cutting playground chains, NY Orthodox lawmakers escalate battle against closures
In a tweet Monday evening, Orthodox lawmakers said they would open the parks themselves if the mayor refused to do so.
“It should call out to every Jew:” Crown Heights rallies for Black Lives Matter
“This is such a blessing. I’ve been here through riots and we had different uprisings and different things that went on in the Crown Heights community between Blacks and Jews. This to me is, I’m almost choked,” said Felicia Gomes, 55, a lifelong Crown Heights resident after stumbling upon a Black Lives Matter solidarity march in her neighborhood organized by the community’s Jewish residents.
Days after yeshiva raid, NYPD disperse crowd at Brooklyn synagogue
Police broke up a gathering of at least several dozen men at a Hasidic synagogue on Wednesday morning.
Historic Park Slope synagogue establishes ‘emergency stabilization fund’
“Our financial health has been seriously impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.”
De Blasio: Jewish funeral broken up because it was ‘thousands of people’
“The plan was to have a specific number of people who could go into one street, then close it down, and have the car go to the next street.”
Flatbush Jewish Journal publishes 50 pages of obituaries in most recent issue
The publication noted that “due to the enormity of the crisis,” it was unable to document every death that occurred in the past few weeks.
Brooklyn hasidic neighborhoods see spike in at-home deaths
Borough Park and Williamsburg have seen more than a tenfold increase in cardiac arrest calls to the New York City Fire Department.
Burial society organization suggests new rituals; Brooklyn funeral home overwhelmed
“More and more people are dying, people of all kinds: Sephardim, religious, traditional, Litvishe. There are bodies on top of bodies.”
Brooklyn clinic reports 500 coronavirus cases. But city questions its testing methods.
“If you have someone come in with a 103 fever and they’re coughing, they’ve just infected the whole tent.”