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Fast Forward Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews are acting like they have herd immunity. Could they be right?
(JTA) – The front page of the June 26 issue of Der Yid, one of the most widely circulated Yiddish newspapers among New York’s Hasidic Orthodox communities, made the point loud and clear. “And so it was after the plague.” Those words, lifted from a verse in the Torah and printed alongside photos of large…
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Fast Forward Cutting playground chains, NY Orthodox lawmakers escalate battle against closures
(JTA) – They protested the mayor’s decision to keep the parks closed on Sunday. By Monday, they vowed to cut the chains of the park gates themselves if Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t accede to their requests. In a tweet Monday evening, New York State Sen. Simcha Felder said he and two other Orthodox lawmakers,…
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News “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…
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Fast Forward Days after yeshiva raid, NYPD disperse crowd at Brooklyn synagogue
(JTA) – In the latest dustup between New York authorities and Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, police broke up a gathering of at least several dozen men at a Hasidic synagogue on Wednesday morning. Videos circulating on the messaging app WhatsApp showed police officers holding the doors of a synagogue on South 8th Street in Williamsburg…
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News Historic Park Slope synagogue establishes ‘emergency stabilization fund’
Congregation Beth Elohim, a historic Reform synagogue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has established an “emergency stabilization fund” to collect money from congregants and trustees after significant sources of revenue were eliminated during the coronavirus outbreak. “This is the most urgent message I have had to write as CBE’s president,” said president Rob Raich in a…
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Breaking News De Blasio: Jewish funeral broken up because it was ‘thousands of people’
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York on Wednesday defended his actions the night before in personally venturing to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to disperse a crowd at a funeral for a Hasidic rabbi and then sending a Tweet about it that outraged many in the Orthodox and broader Jewish community because it seemed to blame all…
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Fast Forward Flatbush Jewish Journal publishes 50 pages of obituaries in most recent issue
The Flatbush Jewish Journal, a weekly Orthodox publication based in Brooklyn, published fifty pages of obituaries in its most recent issue. The obituaries painted a picture of a community devastated by coronavirus. Several pages were devoted to the Novominsker Rebbe and the Sasregener Rebbe, heads of two Hasidic dynasties who died of coronavirus in April….
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Fast Forward Brooklyn hasidic neighborhoods see spike in at-home deaths
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhoods that have been hard hit in the coronavirus pandemic have seen a sharp rise in people dying at home, according to a new data analysis. At-home deaths in Borough Park and Williamsburg in March and early April were more than 10 times higher than during the same…
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