A Bloomingburg planning board meeting about the construction of a
proposed hasidic girls school was postponed last month because of an
overflowing crowd that was largely opposed to the proposed school has
been rescheduled for Thursday night — in the same room in Village Hall
that was overcrowded last month.
Controversy Over New Satmar Hasidic Village Continues
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
A Bloomingburg planning board meeting about the construction of a proposed hasidic girls school was postponed last month because of an overflowing crowd that was largely opposed to the proposed school has been rescheduled for Thursday night — in the same room in Village Hall that was overcrowded last month, the Times Herald-Record reported.
About 150 people packed Village Hall for that meeting, spilling into the parking lot. Bloomingburg has 420 residents, none of whom appear to be hasidic or Orthodox.
The school’s developer, Shalom Lamm, is also developing a large townhouse complex in the tiny village which has been illegally marketed in a 16-page insert in a Satmar-controlled Brooklyn Yiddish language newspaper as a Satmar-only hasidic village to be called Kiryas Yatev Lev.
Lamm claims that he "had nothing to do with" that insert and reportedly says that he hasn't marketed the townhomes to anyone but licensed realtors.
"The only advertisement we took out was in the Times Herald-Record, period. But I'm a developer and I'm here to sell homes. I'm not going to say someone can live or they can't live here,” Lamm told the Times Herald-Record.
Satmar has a long history of allegedly violating fair housing law to exclude non-hasidim from its housing developments – some of which have been built with government funding.
Kiryas Joel, Satmar’s first hasidic village, is 99.9% Satmar and is run by politicians handpicked by one of the two rebbes (grand rabbis) of the hasidic sect.
State and New York City officials are reluctant to take on Satmar, which has a large voting bloc which votes at the direction of its rabbinic leaders.
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