- The governor of New York condemned a mass wedding held at a synagogue in Brooklyn
- The New York Post indicated that there were thousands of guests without masks
- “It’s illegal and the city should do a solid investigation,” said Andrew Cuomo.
A Brooklyn synagogue should be investigated for reports that it hosted a secret wedding with thousands of guests without masks earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday, The Associated Press reported.
“If that happened, it was a flagrant breach of the law,” Cuomo said during a briefing in New York City. “It is illegal. It was also disrespectful to the people of New York. “
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The New York Post reported that the guests, mostly without More expensive, crowded inside the Yetev Lev Temple in Williamsburg for the Nov. 8 wedding of Yoel Teitelbaum, grandson of Satmar Chief Rabbi Aaron Teitelman, in blatant violation of coronavirus restrictions that prohibit large indoor gatherings.
The synagogue has a capacity of 7,000 people
Organizers kept the wedding a secret after state officials canceled a previous wedding in Satmar, the Post reported, citing a Yiddish newspaper, Der Blatt.
“If it turns out that because we stopped that wedding, the reaction was, ‘Well, we’re having a secret wedding,’ it would be really shocking and totally misleading,” Cuomo said. “It is illegal and the city should do a solid investigation,” he added.
Also, a spokesman for the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, said the city is investigating what happened.
“The city is conducting an investigation into the incident and will hold those who do so to the fullest extent of the law,” said spokesman Avery Cohen.
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