At a recent town meeting in Rockville Center, a village right near the Five Towns, a local resident gets up and asks the board to amend the local laws to prevent Jews from opening Shuls in houses.
The woman describes how she grew up in the Five Towns, and laments how Jews moved in and opened Shuls. She describes in dark tones how the local real estate market jumped as a result, causing many of the non-Jewish residents to grab the opportunity to sell, eventually causing the neighborhood demographics to change.
Finally, she gravely warns the board how like the Five Towns, Rockville Center “can be next.”
Shudders can practically be felt throughout the room as she speaks.
When she finishes, the board says that they have received similar complaints, and will immediately look into what can be done.
4 comments:
There are two ways to see this
1) Towns evolve. Harlem used to be White and Dutch, right? Dundas And Spadina in Toronto used to be nearly 100% Jewish. So you can complain that the neighbourhood's changing but that's what neighbourhoods do.
2) You don't have to like it or sit passively as it happens though. If you look at other neighbourhoods where a certain ethnic group moved in and don't like what you see, you can fight to keep the character of your neighbourhood the same.
Sounds like Pharaoh who said there are too many Jews.
A simple solution would be to give prorated tax exemptions only to parts of houses used as synagogues. Also, what about school taxes paid by orthodox Jews but not used at all on Jewish schools? Let's put everything on the table.
Remember those people who refused to give a decent
home to Reb Yosef & his rebbetzin Myriam ?
Well, that's how little J-sus ended up being born in a barn.
And that's when it all started.
:-)
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