Monsey, NY- The U.S. Attorney’s Office may intervene in a civil rights lawsuit filed by Chasidic Jews in the village of Airmont in Rockland County, according to the Rockland Journal News. In the December 2018 lawsuit the Ridnik Chasidim claimed that the village was systematically discriminating against them and preventing them from praying in their homes by delaying approval of residential houses of worship.
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The Chasidim also claimed discrimination regarding building and zoning violations allegedly enforced selectively by the village. Village officials denied the claims and are contesting the suit in U.S. District Court in White Plains.
The U.S Attorney’s Office is evaluating Airmont’s zoning and enforcement based on previous legal actions claiming discrimination against Chasidic Jews, and is considering whether to submit a statement of interest, i.e. a legal brief setting the prosecution’s position on the case.
The Ridnik lawsuit marked the fourth one accusing the village of discrimination since it formed along the southern tier of Ramapo in 1991, bordering New Jersey. The village lost the first two cases for using its zoning to block residential houses of worship and then schools with dormitories in the mid-1990s. The fights cost taxpayers several million dollars in legal fees and penalties.
Airmont boasts a large Chasidic community and is also the residence of renowned Chasidic singer Lipa Schmeltzer.
Be careful how you chperzich with the goyim. They have a right to keep their Burbank town a nice quiet town without a million school buses and swarmed parks. You’d feel the same if blacks moved into your hiemisha hood.
Why does it matter that Schmelzer lives there? Stick to the news if you want to be a respectable site.
I’ve heard of Satmerer and Labovitch Hassids but never Ridnik. How are they different ?
I saw the Jewish community in Williamsburg use strong armed tactics with lots of gayva and chuzpah in their dealings with government and others.
I am on the side of the town look what they did to monsey
The Lubavitch calls itself ”Chassidic” and sends its representatives into residential neighborhoods to buy houses and build basement ”synagogues” in violation of municipal zoning laws.
When neighbors complain about the noise and traffic, Lubavitch hires lawyers to tell the municipality to shut up.
Lubavitch believes this is called Yiddishkeit, Halacha and Derech Eretz.
I call it a cult.
christianity claims to replace Judaism just as islam claims to replace christianutty. In order for a replacement religion to exist it must hate the religion that preceded it. This is why christians hate Jews. As long as there are frum Jews it is proof that christianutty is a hoax. They are taught to hate Jews by their hate filled religious leaders in their churches .+=H8
I believe that there are some naive people on this site. They seem to think that the gentiles only make a big deal of ultra Orthodox Jews with payot, long beards, streimels, frock coats, tight stockings, etc. They don’t seem to realize that there are gentiles hate even the most ultra Reform Jews, who act with “proper manners and decorum, and don’t even look like Jews”. In my community, for years, motorists have routinely harassed Orthodox Jews (not Chassidim), who are walking peacefully to Shul on Shabbas. They will loudly honk their horns, or yell things out the car windows. The perpetrators are despicable freaks of all races. The point that I’m trying to make is that those Jews in my community have done nothing to offend the goyim, except for the fact that they are Jews. Therefore, for those who are trying to state “Shah, be careful, don’t chperzich with the goyim”, they are extremely naive. We cannot sweep religious discrimination under the rug; ignoring a problem will not make it go away. For example, I know for a fact that the prosecutor in Iowa, as well as Judge Reade, who presided at the trial of Shalom Rubaskin, were furious when Trump commuted his sentence. The prosecutor was not a happy camper, as he had the chutzpah to write “what machinations were involved with this”. In other words, “how dare the Jews go against us, and how did they pull it off”. I told that individual, that this is still the land of the free, and the home of the brave, and that we have every right to have our grievances addressed. We are not going to turn the cheek any longer, when we see religious intolerance. Am Yisrael Chai!
Mr. Kohn, I recently met a non frum Yid who lived in Airmont for 25 years and loved the chasidim. He told me how friendly and inviting they are and how they never mad him feel uncomfortable. Due to family reasons he was forced to move and he misses them terribly. When you look at some one in a negative light you will always find a way to criticize.
As a Airmont resident I can tell that not allowing legal shuls is Discriminatio,
The reason why doesn’t matter
Everyone lives happily together just afew oldtimers how are making noise this has to stop