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Schools in upstate NY Hasidic enclave shuttered amid soaring COVID infections
Positive test rate in Kiryas Joel is 27.6%, the highest in the country; institutes in overlapping Palm Tree to also be closed for two weeks under order from health commissioner
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Melbourne residents confront Hasidim for allegedly breaking lockdown
Videos show locals yelling at ultra-Orthodox Jews leaving a school in the Australian city; Victoria state police says no violation of virus rules
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Mayer Rispler, 70, Satmar leader who urged following virus rules, dies of COVID
Rispler, a major donor to Satmar institutions, was buried Friday in Williamsburg, New York
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New York said to halt planned Orthodox Jewish wedding with up to 10,000 guests
Amid COVID-19 restrictions and unrest in Orthodox neighborhoods, Governor Cuomo says: 'You can get married. You just can't get a thousand people at your wedding'
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Satmar wedding of ‘10,000’ made family-only after NY officials block it
Synagogue says it had always been the plan to keep event limited to relatives, but a public reception afterwards was called off, given the virus crackdown
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Satmar Hasidim hid massive Brooklyn wedding from public view – report
Ceremony for grandson of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum attended by thousands, arranged to avoid detection by secular authorities, according to New York Post
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‘Who’s not going to go?’: NY Hasidic Jews continue to hold large weddings
Defiant leaders of insular communities resent outside orders and are going to great lengths to keep holding mass weddings despite COVID-19 restrictions
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De Blasio fines Brooklyn Hasidic synagogue $15,000 for holding mass wedding
Invitations to Williamsburg ceremony were spread by word of mouth, with no posters advertising it on synagogue walls
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Thousands again defy restrictions to attend Brooklyn ultra-Orthodox funeral
Funeral for Satmar rabbinic court judge Rabbi Yisroel Chaim Menashe Friedman, 94, held at same Williamsburg synagogue where authorities barred a mass wedding in October
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Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, US Satmar Hasidic leader, tests positive for COVID-19
Teitelbaum said to have mild symptoms; his community has been accused of holding mass events with little regard for social distancing
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17 arrested as police clash with ultra-Orthodox over virus lockdown violations
Officer injured in the head from stone thrown at cruiser; water cannon brought in to disperse crowds as cops close down Jerusalem school where dozens were illegally gathered
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Blue and White accuses Likud of blocking effort to boost COVID enforcement
Claiming Netanyahu's faction is thwarting law to increase fines for rule violators, Gantz's party decides to hold up committee required to authorize lockdown extension
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From Borough Park to Upper West Side: How Jews voted, and fared, in NY elections
Eric Adams elected mayor despite weak Hasidic support; Jewish Republican Inna Vernikov defeats Steven Saperstein in City Council race; Brad Lander to be next comptroller
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