New Square, NY – A village dissident once set on fire for bucking rabbinical orders said his car was torched Thursday night by a drunken Purim reveler who was angry when he was denied more booze, according to Ramapo police.
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Based on those circumstances, Aron Rottenberg doesn’t believe the arson fire to his car at 10:40 p.m. resulted from his previous problems with the New Square theocracy, police said.
“We’re looking to talk to that young man,” Ramapo Police Chief Peter Brower said.
Brower said Rottenberg told investigators that he “tried to counsel the young fellow against the dangers of drinking.”
“That led to some words along the line of ‘Don’t Tell me what to do’ and he left,” Brower said. “The next thing you know the car is ignited. Mr. Rottenberg stated there is no nexus between the incident last year and the incident last night.”
It could be that this was just some “Purim Fun” that got out of hand, but do you really think this was a coincidence that it was his car?
Time for the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to come in and do a full and complete investigation into that dangereous town.
From his statements now, it seems there is a ongoing settlement between him and new square
Time for Mr. Rottenberg to get out of the kitchen. Move out of New Square, its not a good fit for him.
This community will NOT learn a lesson till some major figure heads will be kept responsible and serve jail for those crimes….What a shame that young bucherim are brought up with such a hate for another yid …..
They played with cardboard n fire right under rottenbergs car, and u want me to believe its a mistake , cmon , when will this hatred against a Jew stop , was.t it enough the almost burning of his house and half burned him??? STOP
Beyond insane and disgraceful. With this continued lawlessness someone is bound to get killed. Sad.
let’s hope the police are looking into this, and will find the arsonist.
And if he’s still not getting the “hint”, IT’S TIME TO MOVE!
What makes him so sure that it wasn’t done on purpose? Maybe he’s right simply because I would assume people are afraid to do anything again. Time will tell…
It most likely was done by some bocherim (Skver grown) who wanted to have some purim fun among friends, what better a target then Rottenbergs property, assuming they are doing Skver a great chessed at the same time, not realizing this is only hurting Skver financially, and the Rebbe personally, after the last hefty settlement.
P. S. after the fun seeker will eventually be caught, he will be able to keep the first arsonist, company in prison where they belong. Perhaps there will be more than one, so they’ll have mezuman.
Is this part of the ‘t’fillos’ which the NS rabbonim have said one should do for Spitzer. Will the judge give him now less prison.
#14 ramapojew. Your comment stinks of self hating Jew hatred and does not have a place on vin news. You could have called yourself squarer Bock cuz it’s written all over your comment. It’s a disgrace that in your community where I once unfortunately belonged to such blatant empty hearts are taking lead. Glad I left your community a long while ago
now seems leeters hanging all over condeming the act… hopefully it gets somewhere
Everyone close to the story knows this was a PERSONAL fight he had with someone…
““Mr. Rottenberg feels that this is not connected to the previous incidents between him and New Square,””, and that is the reason he said this statement…
Those involved thought of burning his car, cause it would grab the media attention as a continuation from the previous story, and not lead to them.
While Spitzer is awaiting sentencing, and Skever spent millions to settle with Mr. Rottenberg, they would not bark up the tree again now with another fire…
Enough said… Those who want to the truth this is your headstart…
Source report – this fire was set by a few “….” that wanted to intentionally heat up the fight again before the sentencing on Spitzer. These are some dropouts who blame and want revenge on the Skever community for their unsuccessful life.
This is not a joke!! Arson is prison time and I do not think the Rabbi is going to pay to get these guys out!! Otherwise there is no justice system!!
The police know who did it and are looking for him. There was one witness but she may not say anything. Rottenberg is not allowed to say who did it because it may jeopardize his settlement. He will forever have to remain silent.
I cant imagine teenagers playing with fire is what the skver community considers fun unless they are a new brand of terrorists. This is no accident and the criminal should sit in jail right next to a cannibal.
These cowards wouldn’t try this in an Irish, Italian, Russian, Black, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, or any other neighborhood.
קם רבה ושחטיה לרבי זירא
If he was drunk what was he doing out? and with matches!! What if that was his house?????