After health authorities came down on like a ton of bricks on plans for a 10,000 person wedding of the grandson of the chief rabbi of the Satmar ultra-orthodox sect, the wedding of the grandson of other chief rabbi of the Satmar sect held a huge wedding in direct contravention of Covid-19 rules. (Yes, other chief rabbi. Some sort of schism whose details I do not know, or care to learn of)
Fines is not enough. People need to be jailed over this:
The city is investigating a wedding in the Satmar Hasidic community that reportedly drew thousands of people to an indoor celebration in Brooklyn without masks, in violation of pandemic social distancing restrictions.
Thousands of guests, most of them men, gathered earlier this month for the wedding of the Satmar Grand Rebbe Aaron Teitelbaum's grandson, Yoel Teitelbaum, according to videos obtained by the New York Post. The videos appear to show wedding-goers packed inside the Yetev Lev D'Satmar synagogue in Williamsburg on Hooper Street, singing and dancing with no face coverings.
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Last month, rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum's rival (due to a longtime feud and split within the Satmar sect) Grand Rebbe Zalman Leib Teitelbaum planned to hold a large wedding for his grandson in which an estimated 10,000 guests from Brooklyn and Rockland County were expected to attend.
After pressure from officials and news coverage of the event, the synagogue's leaders announced it would only be attended by close family members following what a spokesperson called "unwarranted attacks." The state health commissioner issued a pre-emptive order to limit the number of guests.
This wedding, however, was planned in secret, according to the Post, citing a Yiddish-language newspaper, Der Blatt. The newspaper reported the wedding was planned by word-of-mouth to avoid "ravenous press and government officials," according to the reports.
"If that happened, it was a blatant disregard of the law," Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday when asked about the wedding. "It's illegal. It was also disrespectful to the people of New York."
"If it turns out that because we stopped that wedding, the reaction was, 'Well, we'll have a secret wedding,' that would be really shocking," Cuomo added. "I'm sure [the city] will be able to figure it out, and then we'll bring the full consequence of legal action to bear."
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