"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; "
Cant believe it took this long.
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Jewish congregations in Rockland County, N.Y., sued Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) for issuing a “blatantly anti-Semitic” coronavirus order restricting religious services in Jewish areas, just before three sequential Jewish holy days. Cuomo falsely blamed the Orthodox Jewish community for a surge in COVID-19 cases in New York, referring to the surge as “a predominantly ultra-orthodox cluster,” and he admitted the lockdowns were based on “fear” rather than science.
According to the lawsuit, Cuomo’s October 6 executive order “is blatantly anti-Semitic, creating religious-observance based color coded ‘hot-spot’ zones directed towards particular Jewish communities.”
The order “not only flagantly flies in the face of scientific evidence and the Soos Injunction” — a legal injunction preventing New York from subjecting religious services to extra restrictions over secular gatherings — but it also “specifically singles out the orthodox Jewish community in what has proven to be the latest extension of Governor Cuomo’s streak of anti-Semitic discrimination.”
Rabbi Moshe Rosner (representing Congregation Yesheos Yakov in Monsey, N.Y.), Rabbi Samuel Teitelbaum (representing Congregation Oholei Shem D’Nitra in Spring Valley, N.Y.), and Rabbi Chaim Leibish Rotterberg (representing Congregation Nitzach Yisroel in Monsey, N.Y.) filed the lawsuit. Ron Coleman and Harmett Dhillon with Dhillon Law Group and the Center for American Liberty are representing them in court.
The lawsuit alleges that Cuomo violated: the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, the Freedom of Assembly Clause of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Cuomo issued the order on October 6. It went into effect “no later than October 9,” the date of the sacred Jewish holy day of Hoshana Rabbah.
The next two days are also holy days, Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah. The order singled out a “Red Cluster Zone” in Rockland County that includes 133 synagogues, 20 yeshivas, and 14 Jewish day schools. According to the Rockland County official dashboard, only 26 people in the county are currently hospitalized for COVID-19. Daily COVID-19 deaths have continued to decline since mid-April.
On October 5, the day before Cuomo issued the order, the governor said, “I have to say to the Orthodox community tomorrow, if you’re not willing to live with these rules, then I’m going to close the synagogues. If you don’t agree, then we will have to close down your religious institutions. If the religious leaders do not agree to abide by these rules then we will close the religious institutions, period.”
In an October 6 phone call with Jewish leaders, Cuomo admitted, “This is not a highly nuanced, sophisticated response, this is a fear-driven response, this is not a policy being written by a scalpel, this is a policy being cut by a hatchet, it’s just a very blunt.” He attempted to blame New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for the fear-driven response, but then admitted that he worked with de Blasio in adjusting it.
“It’s not the best way to do it, but it is a fear-driven response, the virus scares people, hopefully we get the numbers down in the zip codes.”
The rabbis cited this gobsmacking admission in their lawsuit.
Cuomo’s attacks on the Jewish community proved particularly painful for residents of Monsey — where two of the congregations are based — after a man invaded a Hanukkah celebration and stabbed or slashed five people in the city, the lawsuit adds.
New York officials have repeatedly singled out Jews in a disgusting double standard on coronavirus restrictions. While protesters and rioters ran rampant on the streets of the Big Apple at night, de Blasio had police disperse Jewish mothers and their children from a playground in broad daylight.
The mayor also repeatedly singled out Jews for COVID-19 warnings.
In May, de Blasio sent officers to break up outdoor funerals for rabbis where the mourners were masked.
When members of the Jewish community protested the new lockdowns early this month, de Blasio announced he would not tolerate unrest, a marked departure from his lax attitude toward the George Floyd protests and the destructive riots they spawned.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/10/15/orthodox-jewish-rabbis-sue-cuomo-for-blatantly-anti-semitic-covid-order-n1059495
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; "
Cant believe it took this long.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
Earl (10-19-2020)
They'll lose.
Virus Soars Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews as Many Flout Israel’s Rules
Failure to comply with government restrictions is causing the coronavirus to spread in ultra-Orthodox communities up to eight times faster than elsewhere in Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/w...-orthodox.html
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
BLUEXITA Modest Proposal For Separating Blue States From Red
Dear Red-State Trump Voter,
Let’s face it, guys: We’re done.
It is a tragedy that so much of the work that so many men and women toiled at for so long to make this a better country, and a better world, has been thrown away, leaving us all in such needless peril.
This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.
https://newrepublic.com/article/1409...mp-red-america
Earl (10-19-2020)
Controlled Opposition (10-19-2020), moon (10-19-2020), Trumpet (10-19-2020)
Cinnabar (10-19-2020), Phantasmal (10-19-2020), Trumpet (10-19-2020)
Just goes to show you how uninformed “copy and paste” is relying upon sources known for promoting propaganda and debunked conspiracies. Cuomo initiates restrictions based upon COVID numbers by zip code, not religions, and whether it is Jewish, Christian, or Islamic, all church attendance in those areas is restricted
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Cinnabar (10-19-2020), moon (10-19-2020), Phantasmal (10-19-2020)
Blue York Shitty Mayor DEMOCRAT de Blasio announced Sunday that the DEMOCRAT-dominated city will re-impose a "COVID lockdown" in several "selected" neighborhoods.
The targeted lockdown only applies to areas with large Jewish populations.
Parts of Far Rockaway, Queens and Kew Gardens in Queens; and parts of Borough Park, Midwood, Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn are being locked down by order of DEMOCRAT de Blasio.
DEMOCRAT de Blasio's anti-Semitic move was timed to coincide with the Sukkot holiday, when Jews do not use electricity and would not have gotten news about the upcoming persecution until sundown on Sunday.
Houses of worship are not yet part of the closure plan, the mayor added threateningly.
The notoriously anti-Semitic mayor said he is "monitoring" 11 additional areas with large Jewish populations. Gyms and outdoor pools will be closed in those areas, but schools will remain open in order to keep union teachers on the city payroll.
DEMOCRAT De Blasio had previously threatened Jews in an attempt to force them to wear masks, the 21st century version of this:
Mask wearing by Jews in public increased after the threat, but DEMOCRAT de Blasio's kapos said that the story was different indoors.
https://www.jpost.com/international/new-york-city-to-shut-down-9-neighborhoods-with-large-orthodox-populations-644543
Cuomo is a Nazi
Again to explain the facts to seemingly low informed “copy and paste,” NY yesterday had an infection rate of 1.25%, The Rockland County “copy and paste “ is referring to experienced a jump to 11.26% infection rate, which given that Covid spreads thru social contact, explains Cuomo’s measures. And once again, all houses of worship not just Jewish synagogues were effected, by why let the facts get in the way of reality
Cinnabar (10-19-2020)
DEMOCRAT DE BLASIO: JUDEN RAUS!
President Trump linked to a video of members of the Jewish community being beaten down by DEMOCRAT de Blasio's storm troopers, referring to the scene as a “grim picture,” as Jews begged the president to protect them.
“Wow, what does this grim picture remind you of? I am the only thing in the Radical Left’s way! VOTE,” the president wrote in a tweet on Wednesday.
“’Rounding up the Jews’” is an optic that I would never have expected to see in America.
DEMOCRAT de Blasio is an anti-Semitic authoritarian thug. No wonder he changed his name from Wilhelm.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/07/trump-calls-nypd-clash-with-orthodox-community-grim-picture/
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