The lawsuit notes that New Yorkers must comply with the order beginning no later than Friday, which is when Hoshanah Rabbah falls, and which is followed by Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah.

The rabbis identify her as Batya, literally “daughter of God”: “Rabbi Joshua taught in the name of Rabbi Levi that The Holy one said to Batyah the daughter of Pharoah: ‘Moses was not your ...