Controversy erupts over Lhota’s Borough Park synagogue stop
Democratic mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio on Thursday criticized his Republican opponent, Joe Lhota, for campaigning in a Borough Park synagogue that would not allow women to enter.
Lhota was on a walking tour of the Borough Park neighborhood on Wednesday when he entered the ultra-Orthodox Shomer Shabbos synagogue, followed by an entourage of staffers and media members.
Within moments, a synagogue official asked three women — a reporter, a Lhota campaign aide and a member of the candidate’s security team — to leave but said the men could stay.