About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home

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‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder

  • kobimo
    8•6 months ago

    @caveman The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.