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In reply to the discussion: NY shuts down 10,000 person wedding as Cuomo reveals new COVID-19 plan [View all]Hekate
(90,565 posts)This is a geographically big, diverse, country. Every so often I am reminded that despite all my reading and efforts to grasp our differences, my experience is limited to two states (California and Hawaii) that might as well be on another planet from the Hasidim in New York.
The very orthodox I met through my late father in law here in Santa Barbara (or S. Barbara as they addressed their newsletters to my husband) were few, and were iirc followers of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Outside of photos in a history book, I have never seen people dressed as in the wedding video in this thread. But there they are.
To each their own up to a point. And that point is the preservation of a constitutional democracy that protects us all, especially at the public school board level.