Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Sue Cuomo for 'Blatantly Anti-Semitic' COVID Order

[PeteS in CA]

Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Sue Cuomo for 'Blatantly Anti-Semitic' COVID Order

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/10/15/orthodox-jewish-rabbis-sue-cuomo-for-blatantly-anti-semitic-covid-order-n1059495

On Wednesday, three Orthodox 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.”

Judaism has, as I understand it, a tradition equivalent the Christianity's, "We must obey God rather than man." Observant Jews, as do Christian believers, have a line inscribed in its bedrock that governments are wise not to try to force believers of either faith to cross. Cuomo and deBlah-Blah have done that with Orthodox Jews, just as Newsom and Garcetti have with Evangelical Christians. One side or the other may win in court, but everybody will lose far more in multiple ways.

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Judaism has, as I understand it, a tradition equivalent the Christianity's, "We must obey God rather than man." Observant Jews, as do Christian believers, have a line inscribed in its bedrock that governments are wise not to try to force believers of either faith to cross. Cuomo and deBlah-Blah have done that with Orthodox Jews, just as Newsom and Garcetti have with Evangelical Christians. One side or the other may win in court, but everybody will lose far more in multiple ways.

That's all right. The difference is, It ain't like Jews can't find a good lawyer.