נייעס איבער די אויפבוי פונעם נייעם שטעטל אין בלומינגבורג

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Breaking: Heimishe Candidate Aaron Rabiner who ran in todays elections ; Trustee in Bloomingburg Village has Won by 2 Votes!

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דערווייל האט עס ראבינער געמאכט

כרם האקט

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אהרן ראבינער האט באקומען 75 שטימען זיין קעגנער האט באקומען 73 שטימען
מען דארף ציילען די עבסענטי בעללאטס און דערנאך קען איינער פון די צוויי ווערן דעקלערט אלס געווינער

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נאך א משפחה פון קרית יואל ציט זיך היינט אריבער קיין בלומענבערג

עטעטשמענטס

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בילד פון אהרן ראבינער

עטעטשמענטס

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די יודן אין בלומינגבורג שרייען זיג אז דער פאר וועם זיי האבן געשטימט פאר טראסטי האט געוואונען אבער פון די אנדערע זייט טוט זיך נאך

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די יודן אין בלומינגבורג שרייען זיג אז דער פאר וועם זיי האבן געשטימט פאר טראסטי האט געוואונען אבער פון די אנדערע זייט טוט זיך נאך

מ׳האט עפעס געפייערט? אדער סתם גערעדעטע מעשיות?

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http://jpupdates.com/2015/03/18/bloomin ... f-trustees

Following Election Day in the upstate village of Bloomingburg for a single seat on the three-seat village board of trustees, Hasidic resident Aaron Rabiner has defeated incumbent Katherine Roemer by a 2-vote margin, before absentee ballots and affidavits have been counted.

Rabiner has garnered 75 votes, to Roemer’s 73, but he said that he’s confident his margin will increase once the additional votes are counted.

“We are very confident that tonight’s results will only increase after each and every vote of the absentee ballots and affidavits will be counted,” Rabiner said in a statement.

“I feel comfortable that I have won a majority of the votes, and I’m looking forward to serve as the unity candidate, serving every person living in this village,” he added.

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@ווייסע זאקן
איך האב אנגעפאנגען מיט א קשיא אויף איינע פון די תגובות, ביטע קוק צוריק פאר כ'האב אנגעפאנגען

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הרב ברוקלינער

סתם פאר אינטערסאנטקייט , צו וואס ווילט איר צוקומען ?

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ווייסט איינער ווער דאס איז אהרן ראבינער וואס לויפט אין בלומינגבורג, און פאר וועלכע פאזיציע ער לויפט?

היינט איז די עלעקשענס דארט

https://copy.com/UslhgfXpukGBOFef

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118 מעגא בייטס! וואס איז עס?

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עפעס א זינגער ביי א חתונה , מנהסתם בטעות דא אריין געפאלען,

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געהערט אז סאטמאר מהר''א הייסט אלע יונגעלייט וואס פרעגן וויאזוי צו האנדעלן איבער סעקשאן 8 וואס זיי האבען באקומען אין די קעטסקיללס צו מופן אויף בלומינבורג אין עטליכע גרייטן זיך צו מופן

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געהערט אז סאטמאר מהר''א הייסט אלע יונגעלייט וואס פרעגן וויאזוי צו האנדעלן איבער סעקשאן 8 וואס זיי האבען באקומען אין די קעטסקיללס צו מופן אויף בלומינבורג אין עטליכע גרייטן זיך צו מופן

איר מיינט אודאי די עסקנות אפיסעס.

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נאך א משפחה פון קרית יואל ציט זיך היינט אריבער קיין בלומענבערג

וועגן סעקשאן 8

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אן אינטערוויא מיט די נייע טראסטי ראבינער פאר די וואוטס (אין די פיצא שאפ)
https://www.copy.com/s/odJS6c4aOxRoSMmW

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More recently the Sullivan County Board of Elections released a determination cancelling 184 voter registrations in Bloomingburg, including those of former mayor and village clerk Mark and Susan Berentsen and at least 160 were Hasidic Jews.


Sources in Albany say this is a deadly serious business, being watched by everyone from the Governor to the federal attorney's office.


http://www.shawangunkjournal.com/2015/0 ... 03191.html

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http://www.shawangunkjournal.com/2015/0 ... 03191.html

Federal Lawsuits & A Sense Of Doom...

Village Pushes Limits As Election Results Set New Limitations

By Chris Rowley

BLOOMINGBURG – At the village board of trustees meeting on March 12 there was a sense that change was just over the horizon. During a moment of confusion over a resolution that was being tabled, trustee Kathy Roemer exclaimed that instead of tabling it she wanted to vote because "I may not be here next month."

While the board passed a resolution to extend a temporary suspension of all building permit applications, and also voted 3-0 against a local law that would have amended last year' moratorium on building permits to allow for an exemption, there was awareness that change was quite possible with the village election on Wednesday, March 18, which pitted Roemer of the Rural Heritage Party against Aaron Rabiner of the new Unity Party.

And no matter the outcome of the actual voting, to happen after this publication's press time, everyone agreed there would continue to be questions about all village elections until lawsuits surrounding them are settled. Just as those lawsuits have expanded... and grown more serious in tone and venue.

In last year's village elections, a completely new slate of trustees and mayor was elected, ousting longtime officials, several of whom have since left the village. A second referendum in September, on a motion to dissolve the village and place everything into the hands of the Town of Mamakating, was defeated by 107 votes to 85 when a state Supreme Court justice seated in Monticello, Judge Stephan Schick, ordered a number of votes dismissed by the county board of elections to be opened and counted in December.

All of that took place against a background of challenges to newcomer voting registrations and countering lawsuits. The challenges alleged that new voters had not complied with state requirements regarding the establishing of residence in the village, a stance upheld by Schick last spring.

More recently the Sullivan County Board of Elections released a determination cancelling 184 voter registrations in Bloomingburg, including those of former mayor and village clerk Mark and Susan Berentsen and at least 160 were Hasidic Jews.

Lawsuits surrounding the changes in Bloomingburg — all tied back to the approval of a 396 unit townhouse development eight years ago, which many have been fearing will now become a Hasidic enclave — have included a number of attempts to stop work on the development, as well as a proposed girls' school and a mikveh, a religious bath house allowed in a number of major court cases over the past 90 years; as well as civil rights lawsuits against the village and town for singling out a religious group for its actions.

Now a federal lawsuit against the Sullivan County Board of Elections has been filed by 27 Hasidic Jews who note that "the Board of Elections has sought to cancel the votes of virtually every Hasidic Jewish resident of Bloomingburg," and maintain that in at least 156 cases, the evidence found by police and others investigating residency was inconclusive, and yet the board still cancelled registrations. "There is clearly a systematic plan to try to disenfranchise a group of people," said the lawyer representing the voters, Steven Engel, a partner with Dechert LLP who is based in Washington, DC.

Sources in Albany say this is a deadly serious business, being watched by everyone from the Governor to the federal attorney's office.

Meanwhile, these events are shadowing the ongoing moves in the Pine Bush school district, which has been fighting a lawsuit alleging insufficient action being taken by past administrators over anti-Semitic incidents in the schools. That lawsuit has yet to be settled, but the district has also seen a move to change its voting system from an "at large" system to a 'ward' system to ensure that no one part of the district could overwhelm the rest and vote in a majority of its own candidates onto the school board. State Senator Bill Larkin, who represents much of the district, has affirmed that he will present legislation to allow ward voting, although to date he has not found a state assembly sponsor for similar legislation.

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די חברה זענען אריבער די גרעניצן מיט דעם אקט.

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געהערט אז סאטמאר מהר''א הייסט אלע יונגעלייט וואס פרעגן וויאזוי צו האנדעלן איבער סעקשאן 8 וואס זיי האבען באקומען אין די קעטסקיללס צו מופן אויף בלומינבורג אין עטליכע גרייטן זיך צו מופן

איר מיינט אודאי די עסקנות אפיסעס.

ניין די רבי

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ווי דען קען א יונגערמאן גיין מיט סעקשאן 8 אויב נישט דארט ? מ'קען מיינען וואסערע חידוש דעס איז

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בלומינגבורגע גוים האלטן אפ א פראטעסט קעגן די קאונטיס אפישעלס פארן נישט גענוג קעיר נעמען פון די "וואטער פראוד" פראבלעם פון וואס זיי ליידן נעבעך...

Protest on voter fraud allegations set in Monticello

By Andrew Beam

MONTICELLO - Mamakating’s Rural Heritage Party will be leading a protest at 4 p.m. today to fight against what it sees as voter fraud in Sullivan County.
The protest will take place at the Sullivan County Courthouse on Broadway in Monticello, according to a post on the party’s Facebook page. It will be directed at county District Attorney James Farrell for what the party claims as “a lack of response” to voter fraud in the county.
The post also says residents from outside of the town are welcome to the protest.
This protest comes after the county Board of Elections notified 184 registered Village of Bloomingburg voters that their voter registrations would be invalidated. More than 160 of them were Hasidic Jews.
In response, a federal class action lawsuit was filed against the board by Hasidic Jews for religious discrimination.
Much of the conflict was borne out of the Rural Community Coalition’s fight against developer Shalom Lamm’s 396-home Hasidic development in the village. The lawsuit alleges that many of the voter registration challenges were made by members of the group

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גערעדט מיט אני חבר נעכטען זאגט ער מיר מיט א שמחה אז ער מופט אי"ה אויף בלומינגבערג עטליעסט פאר א יאר.
ווייס איך נישט תודה דעס איז א טובה . אבער וואס איז זעכער אז יעדע איד מער זיך דרייען דארט העלפט ארויס אויפן אופבלי פון יושב.

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ביי די פראטעסט האבן זיך באטייליגט "מער פון פופציג מענטשן" פון בלומינגבורג "און מעמאקעיטינג".

Protest targets voter fraud

By ANDREW BEAM
Times Herald-Record

MONTICELLO - More than 50 Bloomingburg and Mamakating residents stood on the steps of the Sullivan County Courthouse Tuesday and demanded justice.

The group claimed that elected Sullivan County officials have turned a blind eye to what they say is rampant voter fraud. They specifically targeted county District Attorney James Farrell for not investigating the issue. Monticello Mayor Gordon Jenkins - who's been arrested four times during his seven years in office - joined them, and blasted Farrell for another reason, saying "we need a DA who cares for all of the people."

The protest follows the county Board of Election ruling that the registrations of 184 Village of Bloomingburg voters were invalid. More than 160 of them were Hasidic Jews, who support developer Shalom Lamm, who is building a 396-home development for the Hasidic community.

In response, members of that community filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the Board of Elections, charging it with religious discrimination. The county then said anyone who was registered would be allowed to vote in the recent Bloomingburg election.

Several village and town officials were at the protest, including Mamakating Town Council members Brenda Giraldi and Matt Taylor. They said they want to make sure town and village voters are not “disenfranchised” by voter fraud.

Giraldi quoted state Supreme Court Judge Stephen Schick’s April 2014 comments about developer Lamm. Schick said the developer attempted "to stuff the ballot box” during the Bloomingburg mayoral election, which was won by Frank Gerardi, who opposed Lamm's development.

Call-and-response chants such as “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now” and others like “Do your job” were aimed directly at the DA’s office.

One protester - David Demetres - even went into Farrell’s office looking to see if he would address the crowd and acknowledge the issue. When he returned to the protest, Demetres said he got the answer he was expecting: Farrell was busy in a conference.

“I don’t think he’s interested in what we have to say,” Demetres said. “He tries to keep his distance between him and his constituents.”

Farrell did not return a request for comment.

Other protesters were critical of the county legislature since none was at the protest - including Town of Mamakating representative Jonathan Rouis, who did not immediately return a call for comment.

Bloomingburg Trustee Jim Johnson said he went to the protest to support his constituents. He said if someone isn’t from Bloomingburg, then they shouldn’t be voting in the village.

“That’s not fair,” Johnson said