Many Brooklyn citizens were outraged by new restrictions in places of worship, which prohibit more than 10 people from praying indoors. to celebrate the final touch of the annual tor’s weekly reading cycle.
Festive processions spill into the streets and, in some Haredi synagogues in Borough Park, they are known to continue until the early hours of the morning.
But the restrictions that went into effect this week come with a ban on outdoor gatherings, so worshipers stayed in internal synagogues during all Saturday night services, preferring to break the rules out of sight. of one or two police cars that are found driving around the neighborhood.
A NYPD data workplace worker told the Times of Israel that police had not obtained data on anything ordinary on Saturday night.
The dozen synagogues he went through were full of dozens of faithful, and most of those who entered were not dressed in masks. An unsuspecting passerby probably wouldn’t have seen the giant crowd because most synagogues had built a transitional shelter in Succa just. Next to the construction you crowd at the entrance.
The only revealing sign of some of the synagogues was the dozens of passers-by parked outside.
In order to observe the scene through himself, a local journalist attempted to enter a service on 13th Avenue and 50th Street, but was temporarily detected through members, probably due to the fact that he was the only man who did not wear a long black suit.
“You’re invading!” one of them yelled at him, while more than a dozen more began to invade. The ringleader, the only one dressed in a mask that said “Trump 2020. “He ordered the reporter to leave the community and followed him to 13th Avenue to make sure he did not return.
Seeing the scene spread from afar, this journalist made the decision to pull his press card out of his wallet and place it in his shoe, although Saturday night’s altercation did not turn violent, just 4 days earlier, another journalist had been assaulted through a crowd of protesters, and it seemed sensible to remain as quiet as possible , especially since it was a public holiday, during which hounds are unwanted in the neighborhood.
At the time, a senior Haredi, who saw the journalist being chased away, walked past Miguel and asked, “Do you see the media breaking into other communities and harassing others like that?”
Miguel seemed more bewildered by the lack of mask in the net and asked the gray-bearded boy he wore with one why his teammates weren’t doing the same thing.
“Do you know a $1,000 fine?” asked the city clerk.
The man shrugged and said, “It’s not that other people are doing it in spite of themselves. They just aren’t worried. Either because they think they are unlikely to get the virus or because if they do, it’s the plan of God”.
Then he added, “How are we destined for what other people will be among the ten who get to Daven inside?”
Michael did not seem to recognize the Yiddish word for prayer and had no answer. Haredi walked away, leaving them dissatisfied.