Police break up a second Jewish funeral in New York

For a second time in two days, New York police have intervened to disperse crowds at a Jewish funeral.

Video footage shows officers ordering mourners to get off the street as they followed the hearse containing the body of a 95-year old Holocaust survivor in Brooklyn on Thursday.

A 17-year-old youth was detained and issued with a summons for disorderly conduct.

The incident came as controversy continued to simmer over Mayor Bill de Blasio’s condemnation of a large funeral procession for a Satmar Chasidic rabbi in Wiliamsburg, which was broken by police on Tuesday.

The outraged Mayor drew the ire of Jewish groups for posting a message on Twitter “to the Jewish community,” saying that the “time for warnings has passed”.

A letter sent to the Mayor by dozens of individuals and groups – including the New York branch of the (Reform) Religious Action Centre, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance and one of the city’s largest synagogues, Bnai Jeshurun – expressed “anger and disappointment at your scapegoating the Jewish community”.

But Mr de Blasio said he had spoken out of "tough love".