NEW YORK (JTA) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants people to know that live worship services this weekend will be shut down by city officials.
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“If you go to your synagogue, if you go to your church, and attempt to hold services after having been told so often not to, our enforcement agents will have no choice but to shut down those services,” de Blasio said Friday afternoon.
He cited smaller synagogues among the “few dozen” violators of city rules designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Hmm, why no mention of mosques?
I live in lakewood there isn’t a single shul open, and has net been for 2 weeks now, are there shuls actually still open in Brooklyn? Are people out of thier mind?
No but the mosques are, seems like Mayor Progressive has problems only with shuls
Whoever is not out of their minds yet will be soon.
Sadly yes. Even some mikvos
If they were only “out of their minds” it would be bad enough, the problem is that they are murderers putting other lives in danger
I hope he does shut them down – permanently. Should take away their tax exemptions
Why doesn’t this do-nothing Mayor threaten the Muslim Mosques as well? Why was the Mosque on Coney between R & S open for business as usual this past Friday??? Is the Mayor afraid of being called a racist??? Was HE threatened not to start up with the Muslim faith?
What a reeziga chilul hashem this is, if indeed shuls were still open, and I hate to say it, they should be closed down for ever, we don’t need these buildings of toavose open
Joy, it’s not just the shuls, its the heiliga street and hallway minyanim with Yidden davening to a Minyan concept and Shul habit instead of to Hashem.
Minyan: W Elm, 5,6.8,11 streets. Norwalk Ave, beach 12&14th, president st at least 5 of them. Upper west side 88&90th streets. Chicago has at least 4 between roger pk and Peterson pk, los angles on la brea and Menlo Park.
Plenty in b p
This is the NYS LAW: what DeBlaz says in irrelevant
Houses of worship are not ordered closed however it is strongly recommended no congregate services be held and social distance maintained.
Based on the quote given, it appears that the headline for this report is inaccurate and misleading.
The threat was to shut down specific services, not to shut violators down permanently.
Thank you to all the vigilante drs who care so much that they even tatale to the mayor
Mosques on coney island and Ave h are fully open. Aguda where r u $$$$$$$?
Meanwhile , on CNN, diBlasio is walking back his comments 3 weeks ago that NYkers should go and dine and enjoy the streets despita Coronavirus. Google it.. Of course, he’s now on board with Trump to “move ahead”.
Fanatic behavior has nothing to do with Judaism.
These idiots who insist on going to shul in middle of this Magaifa are evil.
They have nothing to do with Judaism and as a result they should be shunned.
In his tweet DeBlasio wrote: “if you hold large gatherings at a house of worship”, that means more than 50 people or without social distancing, as the Health Department required. He didn’t say that he is making a new rule. or that he will sign a new rule that even less than 50 shouldn’t be allowed!!!!
Fake news. Fake statement. Fake threat. The Mayor has no legal way to shut down a Synagogue permanently. This is not like a teacher threatening a student, if you don’t stop talking in class you won’t be allowed to go out for recess for the rest of the year. Totally empty immature threat with no legal backing. He can fine them and penalize them but he can NOT shut down a house of prayer permanently.
Retired lawyer,
Irrelevant if it’s illegal, he’ll close them; , now take him to court. Meanwhile he’ll shut them. He’s a communist.
The real threat should be that if you don’t close down your shul IMMEDIATELY then when this all goes away we will shut you down permanently AND WE WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR 501 CHARITY status. I have NO DOUBT that they will start listening
Please someone take pictures of open mosques and publicize it, so we won’t look so bad
All of you, You are all right!! However you Must Realize that Everything is from Hashem, and at this point in time Hashem DOES NOT WANT YOU TO DAVEN WITH A MINYAN!! Hashem does Not want Your children to go to Yeshivah!! Hashem Does Not Want you to Make Simchas Together!! ALL OF THIS IS FROM HASHEM and even the Entire World Agrees, this is coming from Hashem!! So what does this mean? There are plenty of messages for us!! You all know and understand, however, Whatever Hashem does is always Good For Us!! So the fact that you are all so Matzar (pained) by the Fact that You Cant Daven with Minyan, IS A VERY BIG ZCHUS FOR ALL OF US!! Hashem sits back and Sees, Now You cant Talk in Middle Of Davening!! You are alone, in your homes, Lets see How ehrlich You Are davening!!! Hashem sees all the Yeshivah Boys wanting to Learn Together, Being Matzar (pained) and are setting up shiurum on the phone with Chavrusa!! What A BIG ZCHUS THIS IS FOR KLAL YISROEL!! Don’t you see?? Hashem sees with all our Faults we WANT TO BE GOOD!! This is our TSHUVAH!! Thank Hashem you are in YOUR HOMES, WITH YOUR FAMILIES, BEING SAFE, THANK HASHEM WE CAN BREATHE, EAT, DAVEN, BENTCH, MOVE, And when Hashem sees all this and HOW THANKFUL WE ARE FOR ALL WE HAVE, OUR FAMILIES, OUR HEALTH, OUR LIVES, THANK YOU HASHEM, The Geulah will come!! Lets TRY TO STOP COMPLAINING!!! LETS UNDERTAKE A LITTLE THING, BE HAPPY, BSIMCHA, NO MORE COMPLAINING!!! ALWAYS REMEMBER EIN OID MELVADO, THERE IS ONLY HASHEM, WE HAVE NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY HASHEM!! PUT YOUR TRUST AND EMUNAH, AND BITOCHON!!! AND ALL IS GOOD!! COPY AND PASTE THIS AND FEEL FREE TO PASS IT ON
I didn’t realize that there was a mosque on Coney Island Avenue and Avenue H. I moved out of that neighborhood nearly 50 years ago. Incidentally, I agree that any Shul which remains open, whether in Brooklyn, Lakewood, or elsewhere, should be permanently closed. I’m not talking about issuing a few desk summonses. Rather, those responsible should have their respective tuchas’ jailed.
I live on what you would call a typical Boro Park block. I can safely assume what went on on my block went on on many Boro Park blocks. There were at least two private minyanim in houses. I even saw an elderly neighbor about 80 yrs old wrapped up in his raincoat going to one of the minyanim. Many in our community don’t listen to the radio or have the internet. They are truly still clueless. I don’t know why Hatzala, Shomrim, Shmira, chavarim don’t go door to door telling people the seriousness of the situation. My rov said daven Biyichidus so that’s what I did.
I undestand why many yidden here in Brooklyn are davening in shuls. When you have an atheistic government of democrats who are into euthanasia and same gender marriage then Jews must be mosser nefesh and do even the smallest mitzvah and give up their lives just as the three cardinal sins.
You can’t stay home and pray for (the 3 day) the up coming yom tov Because it’s to much you say I’m Sending you this message lying in a hospital bed Struggling to breathe for two weeks already need I have to explain you more
I would agree to shut everything down, if this virus justified that. It does not. It is a black eye for the government, but this virus is not so severe that it justifies imprisoning the entire population, the total suspension of civil rights, and destroying the economy with no end in site. trump is talking about things improving in JUNE. That is not even going to be the case. According the those begging for this suspension of civil rights, 2.2 million people will die from the disease if we do nothing. And that amounts to about 0.7% of the population, well within lines of other epidemics and diseases and we have NEVER shutdown society like this or suspended civil rights. In 1918, Major League Baseball never missed a game because of the epidemic. Simply put, this is not the black plague and this government response is wreckless and over the top. Honestly, people who defend it in a knee jerk fashion and take out there ire on posters are in the wrong here. People, humans, can not go months without contact, without causing permanent emotional damage to each other, and without destroying the very economic infrastructure that we need to fight the disease.
We shouldn’t care what the mosques are doing, or what our neighbors are doing. We need to follow daas Torah. That has always been true. Unless someone has a psak they can attend a minyan they can’t since that is the consensus of the gedolim, litvish, chassidesh and sefarad.
How many Jews DONT go to minyan even when times were safe
Well communist mayor of NY got so much power?
Anyway social distancing doesn’t work in NYC
Tune in to montreal torah center on zoom. Com…….to attend a daily minion on computer thank Hashem for modern technology….
We have a virtual minion every day
Stupid people. Moslem and mosques are not part of the traditional American landscape. Name one Moslem you read about in American history. Jews have been in NY since the 1650s and since then, Jewish people have influenced history. Fools you are. You think and want Moslems to be mentioned as if they are mainstream. American values are Judeo-Christian.
That brings me to another compliant. Why do Jewish leaders group Moslems in their civil rights pleadings. Again, Moslems are not seen as a new foreign element and no jury is going to rule in favor of someone that tries to change that.
Call me a bigot but learn some history.