Thread by @YossiGestetner

@rudoren All but one who are in the #Forward50 in relation to Hasidim are written in a way to attack Hasidim. At times the article praises those smear Hasidim. For example, the Health Commissioner of Orange County claimed that the infection rate drop in Kiryas Joel from 34% to 4%

is due to Hasidim refusing to test. This claim is the core of her section in the article. But if the claim is true, then COVID-19 deaths from KJ would have exploded in Oct-Nov! (Patients in hospital are tested, so Covid-related deaths from KJ would have been registered as such).

The #Forward50 also repeats the claim about Hasidim (as a collective) refusing to follow COVID—19 rules. Well if true, Orthodox areas would be hardest hit but they are not on top of the list. This means that lack of rule-following was widespread across NY so why pick on Orthodox,

or it means that those tules don’t work; therefore many supposed rule-following areas were hit harder than Orthodox Jews. Well, if rules don’t work, why attack Orthodox Jews (as a collective) on this moot issue?

@rudoren There is a final and third point about #Forward50:

It lists many people who are of Jewish heritage but the write ups of those #Forwards50 do not mention anything related to Jewish communal life, while many who dedicated their year for the Jewish Community such as @AlexRosemberg @NYCGreenfield @bernstein_evan are not listed. Odd.