NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – A special order issued by the New York State Department of Health has banned a large Satmar wedding, an event that was expected to draw several thousand guests to Williamsburg this Monday night.
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The wedding of the grandson of the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, was scheduled to be held at several locations in Williamsburg, with the chupah to be held in an outdoor courtyard. NBC News (https://bit.ly/37ei040) reported that Governor Cuomo said that it was a tip from the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department that had the state looking into the event which was expected to exceed the current restrictions limiting weddings in New York City to just 50 guests.
“You can get married,” said Cuomo. “You just can’t get a thousand people at your wedding. You get the same results at the end of the day. It’s also cheaper!”
According to CBS News (https://cbsloc.al/3klbuMk), the order to cancel or postpone the wedding if it will exceed allowable attendance was served to Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar on Friday evening. Beth Garvey, special counsel to Cuomo, said that the affected parties could request a hearing with New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker regarding the shutdown order.
While Williamsburg is located outside of any of the state’s color coded cluster zones, the size of the wedding, as well as the reality of guests coming from COVID hotspots, have officials worried and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office has been in touch with Albany regarding the event and the potential for big crowds.
“Large gatherings without social distancing and masks are severe public health risks and all guidance will be enforced,” said Bill Neidhardt, the mayor’s press secretary. “We are looking for community cooperation and hope to see all public health guidelines followed.”
Thank you Mordy Getz,Naftali Moster and Jacob Kornblau.
We are so blessed to have people like these who watch out for the well being of the community.
On a serious note, I highly doubt that in the history of NY state or even of the USA was there ever a person who had this much power as king Cuomo.
This ego maniac control freak Cuomo is in control of over Twenty Million New Yorkers. This guy controls people like no one before has and this is going on for nine months.
And we dummies are not saying a boo
It doesn’t matter when the order was delivered. Did they think they could get away with such a wedding, especially under current circumstances?
There’s another story on VIN about a Satmar leader, accountant that was niftar a few days ago from Covid19 at 70 years old. I guess it’s still life as usual. Let’s continue our reckless behavior and kill more people. Dumb and Dumber. Unreal!!
and, of course, the satmars are going to cry ‘antisemitism’. the satmars are the true antisemites – against israel, against everything good and decent
They should rent out a stadium or arena in NJ. NY is trash.
While i dont agree with the principal of having thousands at a wedding. If they are masked and outdoors then zay gizunt and mazel tov!
No wonder they didn’t get a response yet if they delivered the order on Friday night. What are they thinking?
Total bias.. can someone explain the stupidity of schools that are in red zones are closed even though majority of students come from outside the zone, and same vice versa when schools that are out of the zone are open when majority of students come from within the red zone???? Liberal thinking idiots.
When is this file photo from? 10 years ago?
Jew hating Democrat party . And I’m not Satmar nor agree with their hashkafa.
you might want to tell that to the Aruch Hashulchan and the Tzitz Eliezer.
They should move the wedding to Welch Beach on the PIP there were 10k Latinos there on Labor Day. Then again NJ Republican Governor easier to deal with. Prudential Performing Arts Center?
If you follow all the rules, then you can have toynas. However, if you don’t want to provide your children a secular education (1 hour a day through 8th grade), metzitzah b’peh, etc. and want the government to overlook it. Then you don’t pick a fight with the people who were overlooking it before COVID hit
How dare the state do this. What is next will they take away food stamps and section 8 from all the thousand of “single” frum mothers living in Brooklyn with their 10 kids?
I guess uncle Aharon won’t be going either
If Gov Cuomo and NY Health Dept did nothing to prevent tne EPIDEMIC and10 Jews died, hysterical Archy would be yelling ‘antisemitism’ (if he could spell it). Cuomo stood up to Trump. He can stand up to the Teitelbaumz.
More garbage by the city to yiddin on Shabbos when they KNOW there can’t be a a response. Cuomo and deBlasio זאל’ן חאפין א מיתה משונה!
I love it. This is how all kappos get treated in the end. It sucks when your squeezed by your own community now they get a taste of their own medicine.
Nebach we won’t be able to watch the jump rope game with the kallah.