In Blow To New Satmar Hasidic Village In Neighboring Bloomingburg, Mount Hope Votes Down Sale Of Vacant School To Satmar
In a crushing 1,334 to 23 landslide, residents of Mount Hope, New York voted down the sale of the vacant Otisville Elementary School to a Satmar hasidic congregation.
In Blow To New Satmar Hasidic Village In Neighboring Bloomingburg, Mount Hope Votes Down Sale Of Vacant School To Satmar
Shmarya Rosenberg • Failedmessiah.com
In a crushing landslide, residents of Mount Hope, New York voted down the sale of the vacant Otisville Elementary School to a Satmar hasidic congregation, the Times Herald-Record reported. The vote was 1,334 against the sale and only 23 for it. Mount Hope reportedly has a total of 3,291 registered voters.
The Times-Hearld Record was unable to find a working phone number for the prospective buyer, Congregation Rechovos Hanohor, yesterday.
Opponents of the sale reportedly said the school was earmarked for community use when the town got the building from the Minisink Valley School District in 2008.
Town Supervisor Chad Volpe said he would make a motion at tonight's town board meeting to move the vacant school back into the town assets, meaning it will not be able to be sold.
Volpe also said he would move to have the town's engineers conduct a study of possible uses for the building, the paper reported, along with their projected costs and available grant money for them. After that, the town would conduct a public hearing on the results of the study.
Mount Hope will find out that "no matter what they decide, there's going to be a price tag for it," Volpe reportedly said.
The building would have been used by Satmar as an all-boys yeshiva serving its new Satmar-only hasidic “shtetl” (village) in neighboring Bloomingburg – a project that has been ridden with apparent violations of the Fair Housing Act along with alleged public corruption and lies by the site’s Modern Orthodox developer, Shalom Lamm.
FailedMessiah.com exclusively reported earlier today that HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is currently investigating those apparent violations of the Fair Housing Act.
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The 23 nays hate their neighbors!
Posted by: Reese | February 26, 2014 at 03:46 PM
Could it be that the 23 actually like the Chasidim? Is that even possible? tsk tsk
Posted by: Rodin | February 26, 2014 at 04:48 PM
"public corruption and lies by the site’s Modern Orthodox developer, Shalom Lamm"
If Lamm does not wind up getting in trouble, you don't think he's not going to add you as a defendant?
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/01/09/us/09religion01.html
There are repercussions even if the only tangible assets are a computer & a beanbag.
Posted by: Context | February 26, 2014 at 05:16 PM
Thank God that people are waking up to the corruption and disregard for others that are the trademarks of the Szatmar.
Posted by: RWisler | February 26, 2014 at 05:25 PM
Archie, Your BS is showing. You've been repeatedly banned and you are banned again. Your sockpuppeting and other garbage is over. You're finished.
Posted by: Shmarya Rosenberg | February 26, 2014 at 05:38 PM
RWisler--Wow you spelled szatmar the hungarian way i write and read hungarian i am amazed who taught you how to spell it the hungarian way:))
Posted by: jancsibacsi | February 26, 2014 at 07:23 PM
Janc...
I spoke to a professor of linguistics once who told me that Hungarian is one of the most bizarre language in existence. She told me that it is not related to any of the Romance (Latin), Germanic, or Baltic languages and that its origins are in Mongolia or something.
What's amazing to me is that Hungary borders on Austria (a German speaking country) and Rumania (Rumanian is a Romance language) and that Hungarian is such a totally unique language.
Did any of these ignorant uneducated chassidic peasants ever learn to speak Hungarian or Rumanian (the languages of their host countries) back before the war or did these ignoramuses jabber only in Yiddish?
Posted by: RWisler | February 27, 2014 at 08:46 AM