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חג כשר ושמח“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
About 25 miles northwest of New York City, local authorities have been waging a losing battle to curb the coronavirus outbreak:
Rockland County has the highest per capita rate of infection in the state, and among the highest in the nation.
The source of the problem lies in small pockets of the county that are home to a large number of Orthodox Jewish residents, some of whom, according to authorities, have refused to adhere to social distancing requirements.
Spring Valley and Monsey — two adjacent communities with large Orthodox Jewish populations — each have more than 1,000 confirmed cases, accounting for more than a third of the county’s entire caseload, according to statistics compiled by the county health department [http://rockland.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/d074e0336e81449393a76d1768ceb096].
My mother is a Hasidic woman with 12 children, close to a hundred grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren.
Passover 2020 will be the first time she will recite the Ma Nishtana — the four questions of the Haggadah, traditionally asked by the youngest child at the table — herself.
She will serve her incomparable chicken soup and egg noodles, fermented borscht with warm potatoes, and falsche fish made of a mixture of ground chicken and turkey only to my father. While the coronavirus sweeps through the world, her dining-room table that seats 12 and extends for 14 or more will host a party of two.
Early on in this pandemic, when I spoke to family members in the Hasidic Kiryas Joel community where she lives — a place I left with my husband and children 11 years ago — I was met with disbelief:
KINDLY SUPPORT OUR BLOG BY BROWSING THE ADSCould this coronavirus really upset our Passover plans?
KINDLY SUPPORT OUR BLOG BY BROWSING THE ADS...ADMIRAL GIROIR – That inspector general report was done here — 23rd and 24th — during our ramp-up period, quite a long time ago. There was clearly — and it’s hard to interpret the report because it mixes up all kinds of things — but clearly, there was complaints by some hospitals of a backlog. Probably had sent out tests.