The video of a wedding that brought together 7,000 people without masks and without physical distancing in a New York synagogue is controversial.
A synagogue in the Orthodox Jewish quarter of Williamsburg is in the crosshairs of the authorities after the organization of a giant wedding in early November.
Images of the wedding of the grandson of a rabbi who brought together 7,000 people have toured the web as the number of Covid-19 cases continues to increase in the United States. Without masks, crowded, shoulder to shoulder, the thousands of participants were filmed dancing and singing.
A surreal scene in the midst of an epidemic that sparked controversy. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the State of New York expressed his indignation.
Most importantly, the videos only saw the light of day after a publication in the Yiddish Williamsburg newspaper “Der Blatt” where the organizers welcomed “preparations made secretly and discreetly, so as not to attract the attention of outsiders.” a few weeks after the annulment of the marriage of another grandson of the same rabbi who was to welcome 10,000 people.
Cuomo called the nuptials a “blatant disregard for the law” and regretted that the event could be “a super-spreading coronavirus event.” Even though New York was the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States during the first wave.
“It’s illegal. It was also disrespectful to the people of New York,” Cuomo was angry, urging the city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, to carry out “a thorough investigation” into the marriage, which had held at the Yetev Lev temple in Williamsburg on November 8 in the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York.
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