Backlash Grows in Orthodox Jewish Areas Over Virus Crackdown by Cuomo. [Latest updates: How a virus surge among Orthodox Jews became a crisis for New York.]
Orthodox Jewish and other religious leaders lashed out at Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday over new coronavirus restrictions on schools, businesses and houses of worship as protests broke out in Brooklyn, leading to scenes of chaos and attacks on at least two people over two nights. The frustration was reflected on the street, where video shared widely on social media showed hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men, most of them without masks, gathering after midnight and setting fires and burning masks along 13th Avenue in the Borough Park neighborhood. The anger was also evident from Orthodox Jewish leaders and lawmakers, a group of whom condemned the governor in a statement released on Tuesday night.
“We are appalled by Governor Cuomo’s words and actions today,” four Orthodox Jewish lawmakers representing the areas affected by the shutdown said in a letter posted online late Tuesday. Mr. Adam Sandler. While Adam Sandler’s ordinary stand-up routine (free of Jewish references) was reliant on poop jokes and overt sexual references, when he ventured into the realm of Jewish humor, he suddenly morphed into a Nice Jewish Boy.
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