Rabbi Bobov of Borough Park, presented as a positive example through city officials for publicly dressing in a mask, diagnosed with a coronavirus.
Last week, a photo of a Rabbi Rabbi in Borough Park dressed in an outdoor mask went viral, leading even one of New York’s most sensible fitness officials to cite him as a guilty network leadership style at a news convention about COVID’s recent rise. . -19 cases in the Orthodox Jewish communities of New York.
But now the rabbi, Rabbi Mordejai David Unger, leader of a faction of the Jasonic sect Bobov, is positive.
According to an Instagram post by BoroPark24, a local news story in the Brooklyn community where the Hassidic organization is headquartered, Unger tested positive for COVID-19 and has mild symptoms.
Unger’s photo wearing a mask was taken just before the start of Yom Kippur, days after New York City threatened Borough Park and several other heavily orthodox neighborhoods with consequences if their infection rates did not decrease. But last Monday’s vacation, two other people in Unger’s synagogue said there was no mask in sight of the services.
Unger is not the first leading rabbi to test positive for COVID-19 recently. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a leading Haredi leader in Israel who is also a network leader in the United States, tested positive for COVID-19 last week. leader of a faction of the Satmar Hasidic group, recovered from COVID this year, and Rabbi Mordejai Leifer, known as the Pittsburgher rabbi, died of the disease this week in Israel at the age of 65.