A Brooklyn Yeshiva defied the state’s lockdown orders by opening classes and having more than 60 children continue with learning.
In response, officers from NYPD’s 81st Precinct arrived at the Nitra Yeshiva on Madison St. in Brooklyn and ordered the man in charge of the Orthodox Jewish school to close it down immediately.
Nevertheless, Mayor de Blasio said the city is planning to issue a cease-and-desist order.
The order is supposed to read that the school defies the state’s order that forbids non-essential gatherings, and that failure to comply is equal to a misdemeanor violation of the health’s code, which is punishable by fines, forfeitures, and imprisonment.
Even the activist who runs YAFFED, an organization critical of the education standards in the city’s yeshivas, Naftuli Moster, said that the school should have adhered to the state’s lockdown orders.
