The anarchic ultra-Orthodox Jews prepared to die for their pilgrimage

20 percent, and rising, of the Jewish people live in closed communities run by rabbinical edict. COVID-19 is exposing a core conflict with wider society, exemplified by pilgrims defying reason, norms and the law to get to Uman https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-anarchic-ultra-orthodox-jews-prepared-to-die-for-their-pilgrimage-1.9107944 #coronavirus #ultra-orthodox #israel_health #rosh_hashanah #haredim_