As a supervisor at America’s largest yeshiva, he wielded influence across the world of ultra-Orthodox Jews. He feared the internet jeopardized the observance of Jewish customs.
Videos showed a tumultuous scene as young Hasidic men clashed with the police in the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitcher movement in Brooklyn.
The measure was proposed in response to a New York Times investigation that revealed widespread use of such punishment in Hasidic Jewish private schools.