Ultra-Orthodox Jewish families priced out of increasingly expensive New York City neighborhoods are moving to the suburbs, followed by anti-Semitism.
For years, ultra-Orthodox Jewish families priced out of increasingly expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods have been turning to the suburbs, where they have taken advantage of open space and cheaper housing to establish modern-day versions of the European shtetls where their ancestors lived for centuries before the Holocaust.
On Dec. 10, a man and woman killed a police officer and then stormed into a kosher grocery in Jersey City, N.J., fatally shooting three people inside before being killed in an hours-long gunfight with police. The slayings happened in a neighborhood where Hasidic families have recently been relocating — and generating pushback from some local officials who complained about representatives of the community going door to door, offering to buy homes at Brooklyn prices.
Days after the killings in Jersey City, a local school board member there, Joan Terrell-Paige, assailed Jews as “brutes” on Facebook, saying she believed the killers were trying to send a message with the slaughter. “Are we brave enough to explore the answer to their message?” she asked.A widely condemned political ad last summer created by a local Republican group claimed that an Orthodox Jewish county legislator was “plotting a takeover” that threatens “our way of life.
Bigoted messages have gone unchecked for years, said Rabbi Yisroel Kahan, administrative director of the Oizrim Jewish Council. He pointed to hateful comments on social media and false online rumors that have spilled over into everyday life.Hasidic families began migrating from New York City to suburban communities in the 1970s, hoping to create the sort of cohesive community some recalled from Europe.
In East Ramapo, N.Y., there were legal fights after Hasidic voters, who generally do not send their children to public schools, elected a majority of members of the local school board.In the small town of Chester, 60 miles north of New York City, New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James recently announced action to fight housing rules that she said were being used to improperly prevent Hasidic Jews from moving in.
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