ADADThe attack underscores the escalating tensions playing out this week in many of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. For three consecutive nights, hundreds of men have congregated on the streets of Brooklyn, dancing, clashing with police and burning face masks. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), meanwhile, have singled out Orthodox Jews while failing to conduct proper outreach, he said. “That’s why the infection spread.”In New York’s Orthodox neighborhoods, the pandemic hit early — and hard. ADAD“We are appalled by Governor Cuomo’s words and actions today,” Eichenstein and three other Orthodox Jewish lawmakers wrote in a statement on Tuesday.

Source: Washington Post October 08, 2020 11:25 UTC