Story and photos by Kathy Kahn Traffic was crawling by Chestnut Ridge’s Village Hall Tuesday as voters packed the polls throughout the day. The majority voted to reelect incumbent trustees Grant Valentine and Paul Van Alstyne, who had drawn strong competition due to a January vote by the Village Board of Trustees to allow houses […]
Dear Editor, It has been said by some residents of Rockland County that God has no place in the lives of those Jews who do not follow the tenets of the Haredi sects. They may be correct regarding a portion of secular Judaism, but they have insulted members of Modern Orthodox, Conservative, reform and other […]
Dear Editor, Employment of the term “Ultra-Orthodox” in the context of the molestation crisis in Orthodox quarters may connote that the extreme of Jewish traditionalism itself is at fault for the proliferation of molestation. That would insinuate the lie (and the perversion of Torah Law) that the problem here is the prohibition of ‘mesira’ (improper […]