# Ultra-Orthodox Jews of New York spreading covid and other problems (ed. title)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultra-orthodox-jews-of-new-york-spreading-covid-and-other-problems-ed-title/922666>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 10, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultra-orthodox-jews-of-new-york-spreading-covid-and-other-problems-ed-title/922666 "2020-10-10T21:52:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultra-orthodox-jews-of-new-york-spreading-covid-and-other-problems-ed-title/922666/1 "2020-10-10T21:52:35Z")

</div>

> **[Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews burn masks in violent protests as New York cracks...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/08/orthodox-jews-protest-covid-brooklyn/)**
>
> For three consecutive nights, hundreds of men have congregated on the streets of Brooklyn, dancing, clashing with police and burning face masks.

Before anyone objects that this sounds anti-Semitic, let me just say that I have known many Reform Jews and they were literally all delightful people, every single one. But these ultra-orthodox/Hasids seem to be racist, misogynist, and now rioting against masks? FFS 😒

And as I understand it, over in Israel they are not required to work for a living or join the military, but they are happy to be the spearfront of the settler movement and thereby gin up military oppression of Palestinians. Just an awful, poisonous ideology all around.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultra-orthodox-jews-of-new-york-spreading-covid-and-other-problems-ed-title/922666)._