Senior ultra-Orthodox rabbis call for vigilance over COVID-19 regulations
The ultra-Orthodox rabbinic leadership was slow to order synagogues, yeshivas and schools to close, a factor some believe contributed to the high infection rate in the community in the first wave.
An Orthodox Jewish man wears a mask while talking on a cellphone in the Orthodox Jewish community of the Borough Park neighborhood during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April 30, 2020.(photo credit: REUTERS/CAITLIN OCHS)ByJEREMY SHARON
