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2020-09-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Why are some ultra-Orthodox rabbis ignoring COVID-19?

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 New York City officials say they will start issuing fines in several Haredi neighborhoods to people who refuse to wear masks and could order further crackdowns including the closing of nonessential businesses

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-30 03:33|| 2020-09-30 03:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Test facilities in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, which have major ultra-Orthodox communities, report overcrowding due to high demand, with many people who need to be in quarantine waiting for hours without social distancing

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-30 03:34|| 2020-09-30 03:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Because the rabbis are calling bull sh!t?

Posted by Clem 2020-09-30 06:42|| 2020-09-30 06:42|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Hopefully because their flocks have began to notice the clay feet.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-30 07:07|| 2020-09-30 07:07|| Front Page Top

#5 ^^Ex-Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman, who left government in protest of lockdown, asks Blue and White to help him be appointed Dep. Minister.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-30 07:13|| 2020-09-30 07:13|| Front Page Top

#6 the article seems to say that haredi and hassidic are the same thing

they are not

some of the biggest hassidic sects in Israel, are, as I understand it, cooperating in the social distancing and mask wearing (specifically Chabad and the bnai ha RIM) but others are not

I know of a number of people who've had pretty hefty fines for violating the rules -- I think if these fines were vigourously enforced, things would be different

Posted by Lord Garth 2020-09-30 12:34|| 2020-09-30 12:34|| Front Page Top

#7 some of the biggest hassidic sects in Israel, are, as I understand it, cooperating in the social distancing and mask wearing (specifically Chabad and the bnai ha RIM) but others are not

Unfortunately for them the rest of Israelis no longer care about their internal divisions. Their anti-social coronavirus behavior is just the last straw. Their isolation/contempt for the rest of society - in particular their refusal to serve in IDF are the basic causes.

I know of a number of people who've had pretty hefty fines for violating the rules

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-30 12:59|| 2020-09-30 12:59|| Front Page Top

#8 The 'ticking COVID bomb' of secret yeshiva students

Unlike the 26,000 yeshiva students who took part in the now defunct plan for capsule learning, under the supervision of the government and the Council of Yeshivas, there are thousands of students in Israel who have studied in institutions that did not participate in the capsule outline, in violation of the law

Now, with the return of these yeshiva students to their homes, Haredi medical officials define this huge group as a "ticking bomb" and warn of a "catastrophe" immediately after the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which ends on October 9.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-30 13:05|| 2020-09-30 13:05|| Front Page Top

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