New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has indicated he will fine a synagogue of $ 15,000 on charges of hosting an Orthodox Jewish wedding with thousands of guests amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of a gigantic Orthodox Jewish wedding with around 7000 diners had a bad time in New York. On Monday, the city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced that he would sanction the Brooklyn synagogue which authorized the union, which took place without any respect for sanitary measures, with a fine of $ 15,000. “We don’t know exactly how many people there were but what is certain is that there were too many people,” he said, cited by CBS. “It seems that there was a very deliberate effort to cover up the event, which makes things even more unacceptable (…) There will be consequences for the people who let this wedding take place”, he added. On the images unveiled by the «New York Post» , the synagogue, which has a capacity of 7,000 seats, seemed full.
Secret plans helped Brooklyn synagogue pull off massive, maskless wedding https://t.co/6uA5bqheJqpic.twitter.com/JRAeKBfGaZ
— New York Post (@nypost) November 21, 2020
A secret union so as not to attract the attention of the authorities
This union of a grandson of a chief rabbi took place under the New York authorities on November 8. The Yiddish publication “Der Blatt” echoed it several days later, explaining how the organizers mounted the event in the utmost secrecy to avoid attracting 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. The invitations, for example, were mainly passed by word of mouth.
It was after the “New York Post” released images of the thousands of wedding guests dancing in close-up, no masks that the affair erupted. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday called for an investigation into the event he described as “disrespectful” in a city where the coronavirus has killed more than 25,000 people.
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