The repeated claims of developer Shalom Lamm and his associates about the nature of their 396-unit townhouse development in the tiny 420-population town of Bloomingburg, New York appear to have been refuted this week after a delegation headed by the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum toured the site.
The Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum and his delegation at the Bloomingburg construction site of his new Satmar-only hasidic village Kiryas Yated Lev 12-25-2013
Satmar Rebbe Visits Site Of New Satmar-Only Hasidic Village As Town Reels From Developer’s Apparent Lies
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
The repeated claims of developer Shalom Lamm and his associates about the nature of their 396-unit townhouse development in the tiny 420-population town of Bloomingburg, New York appear to have been refuted this week after a delegation headed by the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum toured the site yesterday, the MidHudson News reported.
Lamm and his group have repeatedly claimed the development is open to anyone who wishes to buy there and have denied the development is meant to be a Satmar (or other) hasidic village.
But as exclusively reported by FailedMessiah.com, the only ads for the development have been in Satmar Yiddish-language publications where the development is called Kiryas Yated Lev and hailed as a new Satmar-only hasidic village.
Those ads also offer extremely low pricing for hasidim who belong to Teitelbaum’s Satmar faction.
Lamm – the son of former Yeshiva University head Rabbi Norman Lamm – used a local non-Jewish man as a front for the development and allegedly gave a local politician quid pro quo benefits and goods in exchange for his support of the project.
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