Haredi community gathers for second night of protests against New York coronavirus shutdowns that largely target the city's Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.
Violent demonstrations lay bare frustration felt by local Hasidic Jews now at center of first widespread resurgence of COVID-19 in New York since spring
A photo of Rabbi Mordechai David Unger wearing a mask in public before Yom Kippur went viral and was used to encourage others amid surge in cases; rabbi reports mild symptoms
Schools, nonessential businesses to close in areas where infection rate is soaring, Bill de Blasio says, including many areas with large ultra-Orthodox populations
City looks to crack down on areas seeing spikes in new cases, many of them with large Jewish populations, adding to tensions between community and local officials
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