Dear @NYCMayor, I am a Jew. I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I came down with COVID-19 on March 18th, two days after you hit the gym, violating your own recommendations. I pulled my son out of the @NYCSchools a week before you told us to, but got sick anyway. 
But that's just one part of my fury right now. You are an educated man. Surely you know that specifically signaling out Jews, historically, has been problematic to say the least. Let's take my grandfather, flung from his crib in Russia by Cossacks. They broke his tiny arm.
It never healed. His entire life, he had use of one arm. Let's take my dad, who grew up in Kansas City, MO: one of the only Jews in his public school. He was bullied relentlessly as a kid. They asked to see his horns. Multiple times.
Maybe we should talk about my late father-in-law, who hid from Nazis for two years in France, attending Catholic church and trying to blend in so he wouldn't be killed. Look, I live among the Satmar, though I am not religious. I'm more of a bagel Jew.
Am I upset that they held a large funeral last night? Yes! Sure! Especially on the same day I attended a Zoom shiva for my friend's father. But many Satmar have been wearing their masks and social distancing, so it's not even right to call out that small sect of a small sect.
Furthermore, hours before the funeral in question, this was the scene IN THAT SAME NEIGHBORHOOD: Williamsburg residents gathering to watch the Blue Angels fly above us, which felt not inspiring at all but simply a waste of public funds at a time when the public needs funds.
How many of my neighbors came down with COVID-19 because they gathered to watch military planes? The point is, we could and should all be doing better. You included. And I can't believe I have to say this in 2020, but please: stop blaming the Jews.
While you’re here, please enjoy the Platt brothers singing “Ahavat Olam.” Oh, and words matter. “The Jewish community” indicts all Jews as COVID-19 spreaders, which we are not, and risks sparking future discrimination and violence against us.
