New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio apologized Wednesday for a tweet singling out “the Jewish community” for holding large gatherings. But he said he has “no regrets” about calling out the dangers posed by hundreds of Hasidic Jews packing the streets of Brooklyn for a funeral in defiance of social distancing guidelines. “I regret if the way I say it in any way gave people a feeling of being treated the wrong way — it was not my intention,” de Blasio said at his daily coronavirus press briefing Wednesday. “It was said with love, but it was tough love.” De Blasio fired off several tweets the night before about a large crowd of Hasidic Jews who gathered for a rabbi’s funeral in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. It was only the latest instance of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn crowding together for an event at a time when large gatherings are banned for health reasons. The mayor wrote that he went to the gathering himself to help break it up, and that these gatherings “WILL NOT be tolerated” during the pandemic. “My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,” de Blasio wrote…. Read full this story
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