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Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein, 100 Yeshiva Administrators Conduct Conference Call to Prevent Another Shutdown

Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein, 100 Yeshiva Administrators Conduct Conference Call to Prevent Another Shutdown

By Yehudit Garmaise

In an effort to keep Boro Park schools, shuls, and non-essential businesses open, on Friday over a 100 Boro Park school administrators, some askanim, and Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein joined in an emergency conference call just before Shabbos to try to work together to prevent another shutdown.

    A call participant told BoroPark24 that if the community members of Brooklyn do not start wearing masks, “our local government is going to come down hard on us. They are going to shut our institutions, our school, our large gatherings, and our businesses.”

  Mayor de Blasio recently said that unless our community begins to wear masks in the streets immediately, the city will have no choice but to close all mosdos, medrushim, and non-essential businesses by Tuesday, Sept. 29.

   “As frum Jews in Galus, we need to show the world that we are doing our due diligence,” said the call participant. “The reality is that the Covid numbers are down in the entire city, but the numbers in our neighborhoods are up dramatically. We need to work together to keep our institutions open.”

  “As a community, if we show the government that we are doing our part, they will work with us, and we can, perhaps, continue to keep our businesses and schools open.

   “If the government sees that we are doing our part to live by the rules,” our source continued, “Then they we will work with us and not shut us down.”

   Unfortunately, many Boro Parkers have seen that the mainstream press has descended on 13th Ave. to snap photos of Orthodox Jews who are not wearing masks.

   Some residents received calls just before Shabbos warning them to be more diligent in their precautions against Covid.

  “We have become a focused target by the press,” warned a caller who tried to get the word out to start wearing masks before Shabbos. “They are monitoring us constantly so, please, make sure that everyone from your family, including children [over the age of two], should wear masks when walking outside on the streets.”

   “The reality is, if we don’t start doing what the government is asking us to do, the government will shut us down,” said our source, who was worried not just about the retributions of the New York City government, but the involvement of the state government as well.

  “Wearing masks is uncomfortable and tough, but not as uncomfortable and tough as having our neighborhoods shut down and our children home indefinitely,” a call participant pointed out.

  “We need to do more as a community to prevent another lockdown.”


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