Hundreds attend hassidic wedding in city with highest rate of infections
As infections surge, mass ultra-Orthodox weddings held despite lockdown rules
Hundreds attend events in Beitar Illit, where positive test rate is highest in Israel at 26%, and Bnei Brak.
Police dispersed hundreds of guests at an ultra-Orthodox wedding celebration in the city of Beitar Illit late Tuesday night.
Video footage has emerged of a massive ultra-Orthodox
wedding was staged Tuesday night in Beitar Illit, the city with the
highest rate of positive COVID-19 tests in the country, and the fourth
highest rate of new infections per 10,000 inhabitants.The
wedding celebration was staged by the grand rabbi of the radical Toldot
Avraham Yitzhak hassidic community for his grandson, a part of the
anti-Zionist Eda Haredit communal association. Footage of the wedding celebration obtained by the
Kikar Hashabbat news site showed hundreds of hassidim, almost entirely
without masks, in an event hall singing and swaying shoulder to
shoulder.
Other video footage showed police personnel waiting outside the building where the wedding was staged, although the police did eventually enter and break up the event. The police said that when they arrived the doors of the building were locked and those inside refused to open them.
Other video footage showed police personnel waiting outside the building where the wedding was staged, although the police did eventually enter and break up the event. The police said that when they arrived the doors of the building were locked and those inside refused to open them.
Only
after dialogue with organizers were the doors opened. Upon entering,
the police said they saw hundreds of wedding guests who were not wearing masks.
While
the police were dispersing the wedding participants, dozens of them
gathered outside the building and fought with the police, threw stones
at them and damaged police vehicles, the police said.Additional
police forces were summoned to the site to fully disperse all wedding
participants and others who had gathered at the site.
The organizers of the wedding as well as the building owners were summoned for a police investigation.In
addition, Acting Police Chief Kobi Shabtai removed the officers who
allowed the wedding to take place from their posts until the
investigation was completed.
As
of today (Wednesday), Beitar Illit had the highest rate of positive
tests at 26%, and the fourth highest rate of new COVID-19 infections in
the country with 145.5 per 10,000 residents.
https://www.jta.org/2020/10/28/united-states/meet-a-new-york-orthodox-rabbi-voting-for-biden
ReplyDeleteNow the OU has use for this shmatta Kornblau who was last seen signing the pro-toyevah letter with the Open Orthodox.
After the Queens Vaad came under attack for months, they finally had Kornblau remove his signature.
How many other times did something like this happen yet Philly was hocking that R' Chaim poskened like them?
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/YakiAdamker/status/1346506202470096901
לביתו של הרב קנייבסקי הגיעו היום שני אנשים בעלי תפקיד: ה-1, ראש עיריית י-ם משה ליאון. ה-2, מנהל מוסד בי-ם הרב פינזל. שניהם שאלו: אם יהיה סגר, מה לעשות עם הלימודים? לפי מקורות בסביבתם, לליאון נאמר לסגור. לפינזל לפתוח. איך תסבירו? מקורביו של הרב בתגובה: אין החלטה רשמית
Yaki Adamkar is the Walla! News reporter covering the Charedi sector
Emil Benjamin vandalizing Flatbush shuls on Shabbos is a talmid of menuvol Leib Tropper. I know he's Tropper's talmid
ReplyDeletehttps://www.truepeoplesearch.com/details?name=Emil%20Benjamin&rid=0x6
because between Los Angeles & Flatbush, his Monsey address was 29 West Maple aka Tropper's old yeshiva. Tropper's groupies sold the building a few years ago to Toronto billionaire Alberto Dov Friedberg for his son's yeshiva & they moved to Hillburn. They go around huffing a delusional lie Tropper tells them that all the rabbonim who threw him out of the rabbonus were choizer & now say he's innocent. They are quick to be mekalel anyone who disagrees with that fantasy.
Probably post-name change, Benjamin is a non-Ashkenazi Kavkazi (Caucasus) Jew who went from quasi-yeshiva bochur to vandalizing shuls on Shabbos. Not the 1st Tropper talmid arrested for vandalizing a shul (think "Failed Shmatta").
Was Benjamin trying to make a point against the late Yudi Kolko? He lives in the big building on Ave L between East 19th & Ocean, about 2 blocks from Weinfeld's shul, where Kolko hung out for ages before hiding out by Lippy Geldwerth. He wrote the word "pedophile" in red marker at some of the shuls.
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/110072/brooklyn-jewish-man-stabbed-by-two-men-hurling-anti-semitic-slurs.html
in 2011, Benjamin & his brother were seen wearing yarmulkas on the F train which led to anteh-Semitten attacking & stabbing him
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/505194/thief-who-stole-4-sifrei-torah-from-flatbush-shul-on-simchas-torah-turns-himself-in.html
Simchas Torah night 4 years Benjamin stole 4 sifrei Torah from SYs on Ave O