Assemblyman James Skoufis apologized, supports Kiryas Joel corruption
What’s needed to become a city
Assemblyman James Skoufis apologizes for partial information; here’s what needs to happen
The Photo News: Published Jan 12, 2014 at 12:44 pm (Updated Jan 12, 2014)
ALBANY — Assemblyman James Skoufis (D-Woodbury) wants to update and clarify comments made in the Jan. 10 Photo News regarding Supervisor Harley Doles’ interest in creating a blue ribbon commission to study whether the Village of Kiryas Joel should become a town or city.
State Police: fire was set on 35 infants hours before fund-raising for dissident Rabbi
Just one year after “1,000 at Kiryas Joel riot at dissident Rabbi’s arrival”
In the Ashes of Arson at Kiryas Joel, Tensions of Bitter Factionalism
The New York Times: By ROBERT HANLEY: Published: July 29, 1996
For Jewish mothers and their newborns from New York City and as far away as Toronto and Montreal, the Hilltop Maternity-Convalescent Center was a serene haven for recovery from childbirth. And for new mothers in this Hasidic village of 12,000 ultra-Orthodox Satmars, the center offered a few days’ respite from the nasty political and religious infighting that years ago split Kiryas Joel into two angry camps. It was a neutral sanctuary, open to all regardless of their loyalties in the squabble dividing the village’s neighborhoods.
Arson has now shut it down. The kitchen and main entry are destroyed. Three of the nine bedrooms for new mothers are a dark jumble of water-soaked bedding, soot-streaked walls and buckled floors covered with burned pieces of ceiling.
Harley Doles in attempt to distract from Kiryas Joel corruption (2)
From United Monroe:
Meeting Synopsis, Town Board meeting– Monday, January 6th: The house was packed with people. Well over 150 people attended tonight’s fascinating meeting. All 4 board members were in attendance. Newly appointed full-time Comptroller, Peter Martin sat along with the Board as did the newly appointed Town Attorney who may be a temporary addition.
The Board announced appointments to the various positions. Most notably were the addition of Dan Burke’s partner Elisa Tutini whose term was up on the Zoning Board so she was immediately reappointed to the Planning Board.
Harley Doles in attempt to distract from Kiryas Joel corruption
Monroe supervisor suggests that KJ form its own town or city
MONROE – Town Supervisor Harley Doles of Monroe has written to Kiryas Joel Mayor Abraham Wieder urging the village to become its own town or city.
“I believe it is time for our communities to party company,” Doles wrote to the mayor in a letter dated January 1, 2014 and obtained by MidHudsonNews.com.
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Abuse of political power by Kiryas Joel Village leaders!!! (2)
HASIDIC FACTION BLASTS PATAKI ;
400 RALLY TO OPPOSE STATE-FUNDED SCHOOL
KATHLEEN SAMPEY, The Associated Press
NEW YORK; August 13, 1997; WEDNESDAY;
Some 400 members of a dissident sect of Orthodox Jews gathered
Tuesday outside Gov. George Pataki’s Manhattan offices to protest a law
setting up a state-funded school district for disabled children from the
Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel in Orange County.
Abuse of political power by Kiryas Joel Village leaders!!!
Pataki stumps for Lazio in KJ
By Judy Rife
Published: 2:00 AM – 11/06/00
Last updated: 10:51 PM – 12/14/10
KIRYAS JOEL: Community stays up late in the cold to give Pataki a warm welcome.
Thousands of Kiryas Joel residents endured a long, cold wait in the sprawling plaza that fronts their majestic synagogue last night to experience what they described as “an honor” — a visit from Gov. George E. Pataki.
The governor, 90 minutes behind schedule, arrived shortly before 10 p.m. to ask villagers to vote tomorrow — and to vote specifically for Rick Lazio as New York’s next U.S. senator.
Fraud Elections in Kiryas Joel (July 25th 1994)
DISSIDENTS ALLEGE FRAUD, HARASSMENT IN KIRYAS JOEL VOTE OPPONENTS OF A SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR THE DISABLED SAY THEY WERE STONED, VILIFIED AND DISENFRANCHISED
JOHN CAHER Staff writer
Section: CAPITAL REGION, Page: B2
Date: Tuesday, August 30, 1994
KIRYAS JOEL A 79-year-old man and his son, dissidents in Orange County’s Hasidic enclave, claim that they were insulted and stoned after making good on a threat to vote against the formation of a special school district.
1,000 at Kiryas Joel riot at dissident Rabbi’s arrival
Police Probe Riot At Satmar Village
August 4, 1995 | Douglas Feiden
NEW YORK — A riot in Kiryas Joel at which rocks, bricks and eggs were hurled — and a dissident rabbi was branded “Public Enemy No. 1” — is triggering a state police investigation into violence in the Satmar community as the rabbi’s backers express new fears for their personal safety.
The melee on Sunday erupted as some 1,100 supporters of the Chasidic village’s religious leader, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, descended on a meeting hall where more than 500 people were attending a fund-raiser for a Brooklyn synagogue run by the dissident, Rabbi Chezkel Roth. Loyalists of Rabbi Teitelbaum allegedly …
Woodbury fights K.J. pipeline
Multiple suits brought to halt construction
By Joshua Rosenau
Published Jun 30, 2013 at 12:20 pm (Updated Jul 2, 2013)
HIGHLAND MILLS – It was a packed house on Thursday, when Supervisor John Burke and Orange County Legislator Roxanne Donnery joined attorney David Gordon to discuss the pipeline currently under construction for the Village of Kiryas Joel and their efforts to stop it.
Conflict between the government of Woodbury and its residents and the actions of Kiryas Joel and its leaders deepened as construction crews this spring began burying sections of pipeline for a project that has yet to gain full approval from the state.
Kiryas Joel Village featured on 60 Minutes
We post here the video of a broadcast that was featured on 60 Minutes program in 1994, about Kirays Joel terror and politics against the community members.
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FBI: Rabbis plotted to kidnap husbands, force religious divorces
Rabbis Mendel Epstein, Martin Wolmark Planned To Torture
Man Into Divorce: Cops
By GEOFF MULVIHILL 10/10/13 06:48 PM ET EDT
TRENTON, N.J. — TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Two orthodox rabbis and eight other men were arrested in an FBI sting in New Jersey and New York on charges they plotted to kidnap and torture a man to force him to grant a religious divorce.
Rabbis Mendel Epstein and Martin Wolmark charged Jewish women and their families thousands of dollars to obtain religious divorces, known as “gets,” from unwilling husbands, the FBI said.
“They didn’t do it out of religious conviction,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Gribko told a judge Thursday in a federal court hearing for the men. “They did it for money.”
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From United Monroe FB Comments
Valerie Prunty:
This link might help a lot of this trouble they figure to wear you all down been there done that. This link is for open meeting LAWS I truly think it might help all of you actually keep an eye on any special meetings which should also be published. Link
Fraud Elections in KJ (November 5th, 2013) #3
The Town Board sent out a flyer this week filled with propaganda. This is not surprising since they were not re-elected by the citizens outside of KJ and are trying to shift their well deserved reputation for not caring about ALL of the citizens of Monroe. So, what can you do to make a difference in Monroe now that the election is over?
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Monroe vote tallies illuminate sharp divide
The Fray
By Chris McKenna | Published: December 6, 2013
No big surprise here, but a breakdown of voting results by election districts in Monroe brings into sharp relief the conflicting preferences of voters on opposite sides of Route 17 in the three-way race for town supervisor.
Hijacked by Kiryas Joel special interest group
From United Monroe:
When I moved to Monroe just over 6 years ago, I remember seeing political signs scattered around town saying “Protect Monroe” and as a progressive person I remember thinking “protect Monroe from whom?” I remember thinking, “is this some extremist group?” And, “does this have something to do with the Hasidic Village within Monroe?”
Keep the heat constantly on KJ
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Visit the Kiryas Joel Village.com Site, spread the word, share with others, leave comments on the Blog page, this you can do all year-round, it will constantly put the spotlight on them, and you will not be accused of being Anti-Semitic, rather you will be accused of being Anti-corruption.
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Fraud Elections in KJ (November 5th, 2013) #2
From United Monroe:
Please e-mail or write to the Town Board with the following message:
Attention: Town Board of Monroe, NY
This letter is in response to the request for resume’s to be sent to you for your review in order to fill the vacant seat on the Town Board since Councilman Doles will be vacating it to become the next Town Supervisor.
Anti-Semitic attempt for cover-up by Kiryas Joel Village
From Hudson Valley Jews Against KJ Expansion:
Rebecca M. Ross
Kiryas Joel’s influential bloc vote has allowed the Satmar village to strong arm its neighbors in matters of elections, zoning and development. When criticized for their aggressive methods, the village’s leaders — and politicians dependent on their vote — accuse peaceful, law abiding citizens of being anti-Semitic. We are Jews of the Hudson Valley, and their supporters, who reject the labeling of our communities as anti-Semitic.
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