S. Blooming Grove, NY – Chasidim File Land Use Lawsuit Against Village

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    S. Blooming Grove, NY – A Hasidic group with plans to restore an old clubhouse at Lake Anne is suing the village, saying it plotted to prevent Hasidic Jews from developing in the municipality.

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    Sheri Torah, a religious corporation that operates out of an old warehouse on Larkin Drive in the Town of Monroe, says that the village’s refusal to consider its application to turn the clubhouse into a yeshiva is a violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.

    The suit, initially filed in state Supreme Court in April, is being moved to federal court in White Plains on a judge’s order.

    Sheri Torah belongs to the Satmar Hasidic community opposed to the current leadership in Kiryas Joel. It is associated with a group of Hasidic investors, who have been trying for years to develop 800-plus-acres of property, formerly the Lake Anne summer resort.

    The property accounts for nearly half of all the land in the village.

    Dennis Lynch, the attorney for South Blooming Grove in the matter, said too many questions surround Sheri Torah’s application to make a decision on it at this time. The group initially asked to build a shul, then applied for a special-use permit to build a yeshiva and then handed in documents that showed site plans for a 500-plus-home subdivision, Lynch said. “When we saw that, we said, ‘Hey, what are you doing? Are you going to put up a yeshiva, a shul, or a subdivision of 500 homes?'”

    Scrutiny of the application also raised questions about whether the property had ever been subdivided, the attorney added.

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    I tried buying a house there
    I tried buying a house there
    13 years ago

    ziggy brach, moshe greenfeld and a few other own the property. they plan on building 500 apartments and a shul and a yeshiva and …… eveything a jewish community needs. bloomengove has more then half of its town up for sale but they will not sell to chasiddim.

    yea
    yea
    13 years ago

    Nu hisgares beimes!!!

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    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    “…the Satmar Hasidic community opposed to the current leadership in Kiryas Joel.” Don’t those Satmar live in Williamsburg? I don’t understand.

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    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    maybe this will be a new beging for the satmars in monroe and lead to peice, where the arons and zalmans will live in seperate villages, sort of a 2 state solution lehavdil