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The New York City Sheriff’s Office says a Jewish wedding attended by thousands of people in Brooklyn on Monday night was in compliance with state COVID-19 restrictions, despite pictures and video showing crowds of men packed together with no social distancing or masks. Law enforcement watched from a distance as Shlomo Halberstam, the 18-year-old son … Read more
The NYPD has claimed a Jewish wedding attended by thousands of people in Brooklyn on Monday night was in compliance with state COVID-19 restrictions, despite pictures and video showing crowds of men packed together with no social distancing or masks. Cops watched from a distance as Shlomo Halberstam, the 18-year-old son of the head of … Read more
A huge Orthodox Jewish wedding appears to have taken place in upstate New York Monday evening, despite officials sending a cease and desist order to stop the ceremony. Pictures taken by DailyMail.com show crowds gathering outside the Yetev Lev Synagogue in Kiryas Joel near Monroe. The state’s Health Department had mandated that the wedding be canceled – … Read more
Around 2,000 Hasidic Jews have gathered at Ukraine’s border with Belarus where their annual pilgrimage has been barred due to coronavirus restrictions. Kiev has accused President Alexander Lukashenko of manufacturing the crisis by giving the pilgrims hope that they could cross the frontier in retaliation for Ukraine’s support for the recent pro-democracy protests. Despite Ukraine’s … Read more
Pictures have emerged of a Hasidic rabbi who was stabbed in broad daylight on a London street today in a suspected hate crime before two heroic builders tackled the knifeman to the ground. Yaakov Schlesinger, a senior rabbi and teacher from the Satmar sect in his 50s, was stabbed multiple times after he was approached by … Read more
Police swoop on London street as Hasidic Jew in his 50s is victim of ‘hate crime’ stabbing before builders wrestle knife suspect to the floor By Jack Elsom For Mailonline Published: 12:04 BST, 12 June 2020 | Updated: 12:27 BST, 12 June 2020 An orthodox Jew has reportedly been stabbed in a suspected hate crime … Read more
Hasidic Jews ignore social distancing rules during coronavirus lockdown as hundreds gather to mark festival despite previous Covid-19 rates being six times higher among Jewish people Crowd of around 300 were spotted marking Lag B’Omer in Stamford Hill Comes despite PM saying one person can only meet on other outside household Last month, police broke … Read more