Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised to crack down on large social events in Brooklyn after The Post reported three banquet halls in Borough Park appeared to be hosting Hasidic Jewish wedding parties on just one night this week.
The Governor promised the crackdown after Mayor Bill de Blasio warned that a similar gathering there led to an “uptick” in coronavirus cases, the NY Post reported.
“In the case of New York City, if there’s any evidence, or plans of weddings that would violate the law, they should forward those complaints to the NYPD or the mayor. If the mayor is not doing any enforcement actions, then the state will,” Cuomo said Wednesday during a call with reporters.
“We’ve had super spreader events in New Rochelle with the Jewish community, we’ve had them in the Catholic community. The virus does not discriminate by religious or racial lines, right? This is an equal-opportunity situation. So we police it in every circumstance,” Cuomo said.
“We don’t have any evidence that it’s worse in the Hasidic community, we haven’t gotten those complaints. If we do, we will follow up and [investigate],” he promised.
Catering halls that host weddings with crowds larger than 50 people could face fines. The weddings reported on in the post had over 200 guests each, well over the limit, the Post reported.
Gathering in the hundreds to ‘protest’ – disturb the peace, fight law enforcement, damage and destroy doesn’t pass on covid. Only the Jewish wedding does. What a hypocrite.
Not negating the ridiculousness of the huge protests, but there is a big difference between outdoor and indoor events. Of course, indoor is a much more efficient way for COVID to be spread and large events SHOULD be condemned. Outdoors may be up for discussion, though social distancing should probably be in place.
I just went to a wedding in jersey this week with way too many people.
So don’t go.
Because of a virus with a 99.6% recovery rate.
The death rate is 1.5%, and just because someone didn’t die, doesn’t mean they recovered. There are tens of our own still rehabbing in long term care facilities, and even more dealing with long-term respiratory, cardiac, and neurological issues from this virus. Let’s stop pretending this is the common cold.
Lol the death rate is absolutely not 1.5 percent. It’s impossible to know the true death rate because not every case is tested and documented, but definitely less than 1/100 people die 😂.
In Judaism we value life and will do anything to save one. Wearing a mask and listening to the medical guidelines should be done.
To we are so embarrassing. You should join some of the fiends that are rioting and looting, because according to this momzer governor coumo yimach shmoh they are not considered too many….
Silence when certain segments of society protest in droves, but suddenly protesting loudly and threatening to prosecute when Jews gather. Double standard at its best, anti semitism at its worst
Double standards are because of anti Semitism…
Time to stand up against the tyranny. We’re allowed to gather and have weddings. Nobody is being forced to join.
Oh and by the way, protests are totally fine right? Right..
ALL weddings should from now on be called: PROTESTS, then EVERYTHING Will be able to pass WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL !!!
You should report wedding halls all the nights that there are no events so that they will show up and no one will be there. That way when there’s actually an event and someone calls to report them, they won’t show up.
Oppression is not a civil law (according to Torah). Therefore we need to deal with them using their means.
Such a good idea
The false equivalency being spouted continuously here and on the streets of CH is mind-numbing. Are you really going to compare a Jewish wedding, with singing, dancing, eating, drinking, hand shaking , kissing, hugging, INDOORS to people rioting outside? Seriously? The rioting is stupid, I get it. That doesn’t give us the right to risk the health of our community. And btw, missing from this news piece is the fact that TENS of cases have been traced back to frum weddings in Lakewood, Monsey and Boro Park over the last 3 weeks. This isn’t some theoretical that some politician is… Read more »
Still antisemitic to point out specifically Jewish communities.
Thats not negating the fact that having weddings/events not following regulations is wrong.
Tons of people have been throwing parties lately with hundreds of guests- yet to Jews get called out.
You can agree that there’s a difference between unaffiliated individuals throwing unaffiliated parties spread out over time, and a few close knit communities holding 3-5 mass weddings every single night, right? We dress different, we talk different, we act different. We do this intentionally because we hold ourselves to a higher standard; we ARE different. We have to acknowledge that with this life we’ve chosen comes great responsibility. They will always be looking at us. Time to man up and stop pointing fingers at what everyone else may be doing.
Many parties specifically with young people have been called out over the summer. If you only read col live, you won’t see the others being called out. A simple google search will show hundreds of news articles with politicians calling out those gathering in large numbers.
because that what a wedding is. by making a wedding we are protesting infidelity!
Even if it’s prejudice from Cuomo to the Jewish population, perhaps see it that he is keeping us safe DESPITE ourselves. Because, the virus has not vanished and other places that have taken it easy regarding the virus have got more spread again. It’s wrong to have protestors (but at least it;s outdoors, which is not the same as indoors. Large indoor events (never mind which people involved) – are just more dangerous. It could be that most people havent had it and for some it could be life threatening.chas v, sh. Our “freedom” is less important than keeping everyone… Read more »
I and most probably you, are not exactly sure how dangerous weddings are right now.
But if it poses a risk, then riots and protests in the masses is so much more of a risk.
If the politicians support that (cuz they’re dems and anti trump) and then call out Jewish weddings not even a percent of theamount, then that is clear ANTI SEMITISM.
So no matter what your opinion is on weddings,the focus should be SAY NO TO ANTI SEMITISM!!
One of the positives that came out of covid was that a simcha could be small, different than usual, and still be filled with joy and holiness. Let’s keep that in mind going forward, we don’t have to go back exactly as before.
Everyone’s shouting anti-semitism but what about chillul HaShem?
My Rav made a large wedding recently with a major chasidish court. No COVID restrictions at all. When we made a wedding last week we followed the same path. Is following daas Torah suddenly wrong?
He never did anything before he probably won’t do anything now