{"id":83521,"date":"2020-10-07T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T05:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-orthodox-community-protests-new-coronavirus-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T05:39:16","slug":"nyc-orthodox-community-protests-new-coronavirus-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-orthodox-community-protests-new-coronavirus-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC Orthodox community protests new coronavirus restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hundreds of members of the Borough Park Orthodox community took to the streets Tuesday night defying orders to disperse and lighting a fire\u00a0in protest of new state mandated restrictions imposed on area synagogues, schools and non-essential businesses over a COVID-19 surge.<\/p>\n

One large crowd huddled closely together at the corner of 50th Street and 15th avenue at about 9 p.m. as community activist Heshy Tischler ripped Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio over the order that shuts down schools completely and limits houses of worship to 10 people in certain COVID-19 hot spots.<\/p>\n

Much of Borough Park is subject to those measures \u2014 the most restrictive \u00a0\u2014 which also shutters non-essential businesses. The level of restrictions, broken down into three color-coded categories, are guided by coronavirus diagnosis data.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s called civil disobedience, we can fight back,\u201d Tischler told the crowd after tearing up his face mask. \u201cDo not allow them to torture you or scare you,\u201d he said, referring to the elected officials.<\/p>\n

The closures must be made no later than Friday \u2014 though a spokesman for de Blasio tweeted that they would likely begin Thursday \u2014 and run for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n

Councilman Kalman Yeger later showed up at another protest on 13th Avenue, according to Boro Park News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There, the lawmaker told the crowd<\/a>: \u201cWe are not going to be deprived of the right that we have in America, like everybody else in America, the right to observe our religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protests swarmed in numbers later in the night with demonstrators shutting down 13th Avenue to vehicular traffic.<\/p>\n

Things also turned unruly when the crowd lit a rubbish fire after midnight at the intersection of 46th Street and 13th Avenue and chased away two city sheriff\u2019s deputies who responded.<\/p>\n

The defiant crowd chanted \u201cJewish lives matter,\u201d as they held their ground.<\/p>\n

At about 1:30 a.m. FDNY firefighters and cops put out the flames to the dismay of the protesters.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the night, Yeger was among four local Jewish lawmakers who released a joint statement slamming Gov. Cuomo over the edict.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are app<\/a>alled by Governor Cuomo\u2019s words and actions today. He has chosen to pursue a scientifically and constitutionally questionable shutdown of our communities,\u201d said the statement from Yeger, State Sen. Simcha Felder, Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein and Councilman Chaim Deutsch.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis administration\u2019s utter lack of coordination and communication with local officials has been an ongoing issue since the start of the pandemic, and particularly recently as we face this uptick.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmakers said that even though they represent COVID-19 hot-spot neighborhoods, the Cuomo administration has left in the dark leading up to Tuesday\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

Also brought up by the legislators, was Cuomo\u2019s choice to display PowerPoint images of New York\u2019s Jewish community gathering en masse during his Monday press briefing.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernor Cuomo\u2019s choice to single out a particular religious group, complete with a slideshow of photos to highlight his point, was outrageous.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis language was dangerous and divisive, and left the implication that Orthodox Jews alone are responsible for rising COVID cases in New York State,\u201d the elected officials said.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Carl Campanile<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n