ng cases of COVID-19 in New York’s densely Orthodox neighborhoods, and the protests there that followed city and state lockdown measures, have inspired a spate of recent public statements and articles urging the Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, community to take the virus more seriously. The authors are generally Jewish, whether Haredi, modern Orthodox, or non-Orthodox, and their tone has ranged from pleading to accusatory. These and other authors have also written innumerable angry and sad Twitter and Facebook posts lamenting Haredi behavior in the face of the pandemic.Read Full Article »