An Orthodox Jewish wedding which brought together 7,000 people on November 8 without the slightest respect for barrier gestures is causing much ink to flow in New York, a city heavily bereaved by covid-19.
7,000 guests without masks and tightly glued to celebrate weddings. The images of this marriage which defies the restrictive measures against the coronavirus put in place in New York are controversial across the Atlantic. This orthodox Jewish union of a grandson of a chief rabbi was celebrated on November 8 in a synagogue in the Brooklyn neighborhood without the authorities being notified, a reported on Saturday “The New York Post”, which broadcasts excerpts from the ceremony.
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— New York Post (@nypost) November 21, 2020
A “disrespectful” marriage
It was the Yiddish publication “Der Blatt” which echoed it several days later, explaining how the organizers mounted the event in the greatest secrecy to prevent “the hungry press” from taking hold of it. or to attract the attention of the authorities and thus risk a cancellation of the festivities. This had been the case a month earlier for the wedding of a grandson of another great rabbi who was to bring together 10,000 guests and that the New York authorities had prevented at the last moment. For the wedding on November 8, the invitations were given orally. “No written mention, no poster on the walls of the synagogue, no invitation sent by email,” writes “Der Blatt”.
The day after the images were published by “The New York Post”, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he was prepared to file a complaint and called the marriage “disrespectful” in a city where the coronavirus has killed more than 25,000 people. Referring to the failure to hold the wedding scheduled for October, he added Sunday: “If in response to our annulment of the wedding, the reactions were ‘We are going to have a secret wedding’, it would be really shocking and totally dishonest.” “It’s illegal and the city should conduct a solid investigation,” he added. Such an investigation is underway, a spokesperson for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told NBC, while the representatives of the synagogue refuse to comment.
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