Posted on 11/24/2020 9:50:08 PM PST by MarvinStinson
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that an Orthodox Brooklyn synagogue would be fined $15,000 for hosting a secret wedding packed with thousands of maskless guests, CBS New York reported.
“That was amazingly irresponsible, just unacceptable,” the mayor told NY1, threatening “additional consequences.”
Footage of the Nov. 8 nuptials at Yetev Lev temple in Brooklyn, obtained by the New York Post, showed celebrants singing and dancing shoulder to shoulder in a synagogue that reportedly seats 7,000. Most appear to be without masks and ignore social distance guidelines to control the spread of COVID-19.
The Post reported the lengths the synagogue went to stage the clandestine ceremony ― in which the head rabbi’s grandson got married ― in defiance of coronavirus restrictions. The strategy included word-of-mouth correspondence to avoid detection by the city, where large gatherings are banned.
A resurgence of coronavirus has gripped New York, along with much of the country.
The Daily Beast noted that before de Blasio’s announcement, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo attempted to stop another potential superspreading event at an upstate synagogue.
New York has been at odds with segments of the Orthodox community over adherence to safety guidelines.
They should have broken the windows out of some bodega and called the wedding a protest.
This petty tyrant should pay for the resulting lawsuits out of his own pocket.
Not one penny of public money.
They’re just jews. The rest of us are okay.
If they’d just learn to loot a few stores while they’re having a wedding, everything would be OK...
When I go to my local WalMart these days about 20-30 percent don’t wear a mask (including me), about half the remaining wear it below their nose (which is no different than no wearing it). There are also a number of WalMart employees who are not following the stupid mask rules. The lemmings that are wearing a mask and doing so properly know better than to complain to anyone not wearing one because this is Alabama and everyone has a concealed weapon and we don’t take no crap from anyone.
How dare they express freedom of religion, don’t they know they’re living in Communist China now?
People pay into Medicare but it does not match the compound interest it costs for treatments via inflation rates and expensive care.
We wonder why government is getting more tyrannical. Government is the largest single payer in the country, this stuff will just keep getting worse.
AWESOME wedding! Mazel Tov to the bride and groom!
Deblasio sure loves targeting Jewish people.
Hmmm, thousands without masks...
Shoulder to shoulder...
Physical activity...
Not following the laws...
Almost sounds like ANTIFA or BLM, but we know it can’t be
them because they haven’t be asked to curtail their actions
once to my knowledge.
Judges cut them loose as soon as they step foot in front of
them.
But boy those Jews, now there’s a real problem.
Boxcars anyone?
They knew about the fine when they were planning the wedding and figured it into the cost. I’m sure it doesn’t faze them in the least.
They should not pay this scum sucking leach a penny.
Perhaps they won't. They could tie up the fine in court for years on the grounds of religious freedom. Or they could do like I do when I get a speeding ticket: pay it, call it one of the expenses of living in a fast-paced world and move on, knowing that for every fine I pay there are thousands of times I get to where I wanted to faster at no extra cost.
Personal risk is at the heart
of the american spirit. Who
are these people that tell me
my heart isn’t in the right place?
L8r
Are Jews still voting D?
Commie Deblasio is anti-Semitic. It comes with be a red traitor. The same for Cuomo The Thug.
This is what the voters of NY wanted and this is what they got.
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