richards | August 31, 2014
(Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine) One morning in June 2005, a team of real-estate agents left Manhattan and drove an hour north to the western part of Rockland County to repossess a house.
richards | August 31, 2014
Published: 11:00 AM - 08/27/14 Last updated: 11:05 AM - 08/27/14 BLOOMINGBURG - In at least a temporary victory for developer Shalom Lamm, the state Appellate Court has ruled that construction of his 396-home Hasidic development can proceed, without restrictions from the Village of Bloomingburg or the Town of Mamakating. Last weeks ruling essentially upholds the stay of the July decision of Sullivan County Supreme Court Judge Stephen Schick that said the 2006 annexation of land from Mamakating into Bloomingburg was illegal, but that construction would not stop. Schick then said it was up to Mamakating decide what it now does with the territory under its jurisdiction including refusing to enforce legislation it believes to be invalid.
richards | May 26, 2014
Moshe Knoll: A Simcha in Bacau (Hasidic Melody #2) Moshe Knoll A Simcha in Bacau (Hasidic Melody #2) Laura Jean Goldberg, violin; Moshe Knoll, piano. By: Laura Jean Goldberg
richards | May 26, 2014
'Yesh Tickva' Aims to Raise Awareness About the Disease Tiner Ralph, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Summer Idyll: Ticks abount in the picturesque Catskills
richards | May 24, 2014
Shneerson Library Works Not Returned From '91 Loan getty images Published May 22, 2014.
richards | May 21, 2014
New Jersey senior class prank charges downgraded New Jersey senior class prank charges downgraded The top prosecutor in the northern New Jersey county where dozens of students were arrested after being accused of pulling a senior class prank says he's downgrading charges against most of them. The top prosecutor in a New Jersey county where dozens of high school students were arrested after a senior class prank says he's downgrading charges against many of them. Democrat Tom Wolf is suggesting he'll be a better handler of Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry than the man he hopes to unseat, Republican Gov.
richards | May 18, 2014
What are they, meshuggeneh?
richards | May 16, 2014
In his documentary shot inside a seminary for young Hasidic women, director Abbey Jack Neidik interviews the joyous and inquisitive 18-year-old Chaya Mushka Stern. He asks why in a world where you can be anything, she would remain Hasidic. She speculates she might become an actress; he tells her yes, you could be a movie star
richards | May 14, 2014
District would be split to elect separate members The 396-unit housing development being built in Bloomingburg on Winterton Road by developer Shalom Lamm.JOHN DeSANTO/Times Herald-Record Published: 2:00 AM - 05/14/14 Last updated: 1:57 PM - 05/14/14 PINE BUSH Could a bloc of new Hasidic voters in Bloomingburg or any group in any area of the district take over the Pine Bush school board?
richards | May 13, 2014
Two Dozen Adherents Move to Rural Village getty images Stranger and Stranger: Women in the Lev Tahor sectwear a burqa like uniform that has led some to call the group the Jewish Taliban. Published May 12, 2014.
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