Sometimes, you’re sure there’s a back story; you just don’t know what it is. For example, four Democratic legislators representing Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn took the striking step of accusing Gov. Andrew Cuomo of a “duplicitous bait-and-switch.” A Jewish leader described feeling stabbed in the back by the governor.

But now that the Orthodox Jewish daily Hamodia has shared a recording of what Cuomo told Orthodox rabbis privately on a call on Oct. 6, certain things start making sense: What Cuomo says to Orthodox Jews is totally different from what he says and does about them.