The Asbury Park Press reports: Belmar, NJ borough officials have met with the rabbi and students at an Orthodox Jewish boarding school to discuss the attitudes of some residents in the neighborhood who think the institution is both dirty and noisy.
Last spring, Victoria Renner, a Republican candidate for Borough Council this November, made the accusation against the Mesivta Keser Torah School on 11th Avenue during a public meeting of the governing body – reported HERE on YW.
Renner’s claims that trash left outside the houses that serve as dormitories in the residential neighborhood was piling up, attracting rats, led to a door-to-door investigation by Councilman Matthew J. Doherty, a Democrat.
Doherty later said he determined that there was no evidence of rodents, but agreed to meet with school officials to discuss how students could be more sensitive to the concerns of neighbors in the area.
He and Council President Meredith Brennan met with representatives from the school earlier this month and emphasized the need to be considerate toward their neighbors, while working to establish a dialogue with the yeshiva community.
The students have accused some residents of being anti-Semitic, pointing out that similar problems across town at St. Rose High School are not turned into such a public issue.
Renner and William Tyler, a Plainfield police officer who lives on 12th Avenue next door to a house that serves as a dormitory for the school, have argued that the yeshiva has outgrown the neighborhood and should consider moving to a less densely populated area outside of coastal Monmouth County.
(Source: APP)
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I think the Yeshivah management should take the opportunity to instill a sense of public responsibility into their students (and staff).
what a Chillul Hashem that an institution of Torah Study should have garbage piling up outside it!
Complaining that the St Rose Hill school does not get complaints is irrelevent. There should be NO GROUNDS for complaints against a Torah Institution.
The Rosh Hayeshiva is a Yekke; he doesnt need any Drashos about cleanliness. In fact when I was a bochur there, that was one things that visitors commented on; that the building was always neat and orderely!
Dear nphatti,
I don’t know why you as I’m assuming a yid are taking the side of the anti-Semites seemingly without having any knowledge on the situation? I myself was a bochur there for 4 years and can testify that R’ Heinamann besides for being a Yekkey as Maybeyouknowme pointed out but 1) R’ Heinamann will personally pick up garbage that the wind blows from the streets onto MKT property on his way to and from his car. 2) Speaks about Chillul Hashem and picking up the garbage ALL THE TIME. 3) When I was there a few years ago the yeshiva had planted grass & put down chips of wood a few times as well as painted the main building & put on new siding on the dormitory houses. I know the Renner’s and have spoken to them a few times, they lives around the corner from the main building and down the block from the dormitory houses so it’s not like he can even see all this from his house but yes the bochurim must walk buy their house to go to the dorms and SHE is opposed to that as well as being an anti-Semite as she has been proven that there was no rodents in the neighborhood (see other YW post on Belmar). As far as “there should be NO GROUNDS for complaints against a Torah Institution” anti-Semitism does not need any grounds but throughout history the non-Jews have made up stories WITHOUT ANY TRUTH AT ALL!!! Just four your knowledge the yeshiva has many other neighbors which we get along with very well I remember bringing in packages for an old lady on the block she was called bubby!