The haredi Covid tragedy has created a crisis for Judaism itself

Rabbinic sages whose word is treated as law have shown themselves lethally fallible

Mir yeshivah, Jerusalem

The mayor of Antwerp, the Belgian city that is home to about 15,000 ultra-Orthodox haredi Jews, has warned that their failure to comply with coronavirus measures threatens to trigger a wave of antisemitism.

The Belzer Chassidic sect shut their synagogue in the city after the police twice found it was violating emergency measures fo…