What you should know
- New York officials ordered the Yetev Lev D’Satmar congregation in Monroe to cancel four large wedding ceremonies scheduled for Monday night that are expected to be attended by hundreds, if not thousands, unless the ceremonies can be carried out in strict accordance with COVID-19 safety guidelines.
- According to the New York Department of Health, state officials received a tip that members of the synagogue planned to hold large wedding ceremonies Monday at the congregation’s main shrine and at Bais Rachel Paradise Hall. Additionally, the department received information that the congregation was also planning to hold pre-ceremony receptions on Monday at Ohel Yehosua and at Vayoel Moshe Hall.
- The news comes a day after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a warning Sunday that a Brooklyn synagogue should be investigated over reports that it held a secret wedding with thousands of maskless guests earlier this year. month.
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NEW YORK – New York officials ordered the Yetev Lev D’Satmar congregation in Monroe to cancel four large wedding ceremonies scheduled for Monday night that are expected to be attended by hundreds, if not thousands, unless that ceremonies can be carried out in strict accordance with COVID-19 safety guidelines.
According to the New York Department of Health, state officials received a tip that members of the synagogue were planning to hold large wedding ceremonies Monday at the congregation’s main shrine and at Bais Rachel Paradise Hall. Additionally, the department received information that the congregation was also planning to hold pre-ceremony receptions on Monday at Ohel Yehosua and at Vayoel Moshe Hall.
The large number of people expected to attend these events will create unsafe physical distancing and “will create an undue risk of increasing the spread of COVID-19, and will pose a health and safety hazard to the people of the state of New York, “according to the Department of Health.
State officials announced that the congregation must “immediately cancel the [cuatro] scheduled wedding ceremonies mentioned above, unless you reasonably believe that you can perform such ceremonies in strict compliance with the requirements of covering your face and physical distancing … and have developed and implemented a plan for such adherence. “
If ceremonies are not canceled, the synagogue must adhere to state guidelines, including the ability to deny entry or expel anyone 2 years of age or older who can “medically tolerate face covering” but is not complying with it and is not it is “capable of maintaining a physical distance of six feet from any individual who is not in the same household.” The congregation must also “immediately cancel any wedding-related reception likely to be attended by more than fifty people.”
Our sister network NBC 4 New York reached out to Yetev Lev D’Satmar’s congregation in Monroe for comment.
The news comes a day after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a warning Sunday that a Brooklyn synagogue should be investigated over reports that it held a secret wedding with thousands of maskless guests earlier this month.
“If that happened, it was a flagrant breach of the law,” Cuomo said during a briefing in New York City. “It’s illegal. It was also disrespectful to the people of New York.”
The New York Post reported that the mostly maskless guests gathered inside the Yetev Lev Temple in Williamsburg for the Nov. 8 wedding of Yoel Teitelbaum, grandson of Satmar’s Chief Rabbi Aaron Teitelman, in flagrant violation of coronavirus restrictions banning large indoor gatherings. The synagogue has a capacity of 7,000 people.
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