Crown Heights Hosts Social Distance Coronavirus Wedding: Video

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A Crown Heights couple showed social distancing doesn't mean a community's shared joy will stop with the new coronavirus.

Cheers echoed down the streets Thursday evening as JJ Deitsch and Fraida Jacobson, a Hasidic couple, led an impromptu parade after their wedding, COLlive first reported.

They planned a big ceremony, but concerns over the coronavirus limited it to just 10 people, COLlive reported. But soon the neighborhood began calling their families and asking if the couple could drive past so the community could safely cheer their wedding from their homes.

And so a raucous, yet safely-spaced celebration erupted in Crown Heights. Video showing the procession shared by Mordechai Lightstone, a rabbi and journalist with Chabad.org, on Twitter went viral in the good way.

City and health officials, not to mention Park Slopers shouting from balconies, have called for social distancing measures to limit the spread of coronavirus.

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There are more than 1,500 reported cases in Brooklyn — the most of any city borough — as of Friday morning. There are also signs the virus is hitting tight-knit Hasidic communities in Brooklyn particularly hard, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Hasidic rabbis in Crown Heights have warned of a coronavirus "fire" burning in their community. They have closed places of worship and community members have set up a coronavirus isolation hotline at 212-901-2000 for answers to questions, including requests for assistance.

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