33 Responses

1. Say it was the oppisite way around. A place like Lakewood or Monsey felt threatened that some non-Jewish group was going to move in and take over demographically , change the zoning laws, budget allocations and other issues.

   Do you think there would be no resistance?

2. Dear Brothers and Sisters, when oh when are you going to get it…?? when? they hate you.. you are surrounded by haters.. always. Please think with your head and make your conclusions.. Eisav sone Yaakov..

3. Her comments are blatantly anti-semitic and stupid and any such action as she proposes is clearly unlawful and would be struck down by the courts. The majority of these small shtieblach are very sensitive to their communities and want to be good neighbors. Sadly, there are a small number that seem oblivious to their neighbors, fail to maintain their properties including mowing the lawns, only putting trash out on the designated day in containers, leaving toys strewn on the front yard and sometimes blocking neighbors’ driveways. Again, this very small number provide an excuse for the anti-Semites to paint with a broad brush and castigate all residential shuls.

4. I hope Jews don’t move there (instead Moshiach should come and we all move to Eretz Yisrael) and she gets what she wants, the dregs of society

5. This is not antisemitism. Instead of posting these inflmtory headlines why can’t people have honest discussions about the issues people have with orthodox community taking over their neighborhoods. If I was a non Jew, I would not like it either. Everyone likes to live in the comfort among their own kind, therefore I only choose to live on a street that is 95% frum people. It’s silly to think that the neighborhood you grew up in will remain the same for your kids. And they should be happy to be able to sell their homes at top dollar when Jews take over. But ll of this has nothing to do with hate.

6. Mrs. Zangari’s presentation was unemotional and reasoned. Calling a home a shul to avoid paying property taxes is beyond the pale, as is quiet coercion to make non-Jews close their businesses on Shabbos. Jews relocating to Rockville Center due to housing shortages elsewhere have an obligation to be good neighbors, not hostile invaders.

7. Hochul’s statement contradicts itself. “Everyone is welcome in New York”. Except, apparently, antisemites, because “the despicable … has no place in our state”. So which is it, Ms Hochul? Is everyone welcome, or only some people? Antisemites have rights too. Specifically the right to express themselves and tell the world what poison lives in their hearts.

   The correct response for government officials in their official capacity is simply “Thank you for your opinion. We acknowledge your absolute right to express it, but we do not agree with it, and will be taking no action on your concerns. If Jews start moving here and you don’t like it, you will be free to leave. Next.”

8. https://www.mzinteriordesign.com/
   Call her and ask her to design a shul
   Lol

9. This is an issue which keps coming up.
   Im not sure I agree whith this narrative that she is anti-semitic.

   She grew up in a town with a certain culture, and the large influx of Orthodox Jews drastically changed that. Is she wrong?
   She is upset that the town of her youth is no longer. I kinda understand that no?
   Maybe we as a community need to do more to not be “megareh be’umos? I dont know, but I definitely can hear the argument.
   She didnt say anything about religion at all, she simply stated that the town she knw and recognized was changed and she doesnt want that to happen to her currant locale.
   The torah says that the “CHAIN” of a town on its inhabitants is very strong, so why is her statements anti-semitic?

10. Come on, we also tell the 3-year-old boys not to look at a Tomei Goy or Tomei Animal. We say Am Hadomeh La’chamor, Atem Kriyum Odom, Akum Sheshovas Chayov Meisoh.
    We just happen not to be physical violent people.
    Stop being so sensitive.

11. Sheez just a racist cow who looks in the mirror & is very unhappy with herself so she lashes out on others.

12. if they lakewoodize the place, i cant blame her. Multi family housing making a place MUCH too crowded.

13. At first She looked familiar, I thought it was Rashida Tlaib but it’s not, it’s another racist cow.

14. is there affordable housing there ? five towns and far rockaway are shot up

15. “because, apparently, the prospect of Jews coming to Rockville Centre is just too much for her to bear.”

    To be fair, she did expressed a specific and theoretically valid concern, which is that the schools would go down the drain and the the school boards would be taken over by Frum Jews whose interest would be essentially transportation (to private schools) and, by implication, not the students in the public school system there.

    So, she didn’t simply “moan and groan” that she didn’t want Jews to come.

    I think it’s fair to recognize that gentiles want their kids to have a quality school system, especially on Long Island. If that concern could be allayed, and I have no reason to think otherwise, then perhaps she wouldn’t “moan and groan” as she did.

    As to her concern: if the parents of those high-performing students move their families out of the neighborhoods then, yes, those schools will obviously not perform as well. But that is not anyone’s fault but rather a reflection of the students attending those schools.

    Same for the school board. If there is a vacuum, where there are no concerned parents (gentiles) interested in sitting on those boards, then that, too, is not anyone’s fault and is, again, a reflection of the demographics.

    But I do protest her implication. I don’t believe that a Jewish school board would intentionally harm those public schools in any way.

16. RVC removed the original video, but it was saved and re-uploaded by others.

17. Housing discrimination is illegal in the United States. She says she received (and her parents received) unsolicited offers to buy their homes in the mail. Grab your Kleenex. Last I heard that is legal. Somebody asked a bagel store to close on the Sabbath. Last I heard that was legal and they said “no” anyway. Lady, guess what? Jews don’t need your permission to move anywhere.

18. I think she also said she doesn’t want too many Blacks moving in since that would increase the amount of cheap liquor stores opening up. Is that okay Adar, Bobby boy, and Hakatan? Or perhaps no Hispanics-too many bodegas?

19. smerel: Say it was the other way around, and people were afraid blacks would move in, reduce home values, increase crime and immorality, would you support opposing the blacks moving in and take regulatory steps to prevent or reduce that from happening?

20. Typo- on Long Island

21. smerel: Say it was the other way around, and people were afraid blacks would move in, reduce home values, increase crime and immorality, would you support opposing the blacks moving in and take regulatory steps to prevent or reduce that from happening?

    I most certainly would!!!

    In fact I think the reason I have so much empathy for these type of people , instead of screaming anti-Semitism, is because I remember what was like living in a neighborhood that underwent “white flight” (big talking liberals from the first to run) and I really understand the point of view of those resent changing demographics that will come along with changes that will inevitably affect their personal lives.

    And I remember how much I resented those who lived elsewhere in places with stable demographics self righteously calling us racists because of our concerns of the increase in crime and other problems that the changing demographics were causing.

22. Her obvious antisemitism aside, she’s not all wrong!
    I live in the 5TS for 25 years now, and the neighborhood has changed, and not for the better!
    Some of what she claims is true…some of it, but the rest is pure antisemitic fiction!
    PS, the nearest shul to me is several blocks away, and that’s only because I live in the heart of the town. In fact, there’s only about a dozen, maybe 16 shuls in all of the 5TS!

23. If she would have spoken about not having a mosque on every block for fear that the Muslims would move in and overrun her town you would have no question that this is hate speech and would not be saying that Muslims need to learn to live with their neighbors. Similarly, if a black family moved in and she was decrying this for fear of getting overrun by black people that would obviously be hateful racism.

    Neighborhoods change, this is the way of the world. Things dont stay the same from when you were a kid. Predominantly white neighborhoods become black and predominately black neighborhoods become white. Neighborhoods that were once predominantly Jewish are predominately Asian, and neighborhoods that once housed WASPS now have Jews.

    You don’t need to apologize for legally moving into a neighborhood. Just know that gentiles tend to hate Jews so be careful to act honest and mentchlich and make a kiddush Hashem as best you can.

    Also, maybe ix-nay on the big eoras-May. We are in galus after all, no need to flaunt it.

24. I’d like to see what happens if 25 Modern Orthodox families move into KJ and setup a Coed school, Bnei Akiva Shabbos afternoon, without asking close the road for a Yom Hatzmait parade, and have boys in shorts and T-shirts playing in a baseball league Shabbos afternoon with girls in shorts and tank tops cheering. What will happen to them is a lot worse than anything this woman will do. Why do we expect others to respect our lifestyle but we shouldn’t have to respect theirs simply because it’s the right thing to do?

25. You know what the real problem is? Whenever someone says something antisemitic, there are Jews that join in. Someone says Jews are awful to live around and somehow pay taxes and don’t use public schools (essentially paying to educate someone else’s child) and at the same time cause the quality of public schools to decline. Then instead of condemning such comments, we have some Jews join in and say “but they’re right, Jews really are the worst.” In my opinion, those are the real antisemites that cause harm. They make antisemism acceptable.

26. @Kach
    16 shuls in the 5 towns

    Way more than that…..

27. Kuvult:
    There is a big difference. Idolatry and immorality are both religiously offensive to Jews. None of that is applicable to RVC.

28. IzzyC,
    JFK said, “Sometimes your party demands to much.” The same can be said about us. Are we supposed to agree with terrible behavior because they’re fellow Jews? Do we need to lie to ourselves? Do we need to let these issue continue and fester because bringing them up to correct them is Antisemitic?
    My family grew up interacting with Frum, Non-Frum, and Non-Jews on a constant basis and I was shocked when I learned how many in the Frum world talk about and treat anyone who is not a fellow Frum Yid.
    My father didnt talk much but it stands out him telling me that the worst people to do business with are fellow Frum Yidden who live in the NY area. It’s as if too many push off paying day by day in case either side dies and the money owed gets forgotten.

29. If anybody claims this is not anti-Jewish they were too lazy to listen to the clip. She moved to Rockville Center because there’s a Cathedral there and what happened in the 5 Towns would not happen in Rockville Center and Orthodox Jewish men will run for office. I guess you would stick up for Haman HaRasha as well. Some of you upset me more than her vile hatred.

30. HaKatan,
    The immorality of not letting their children play with yours? Based on so many comments, the immortality of putting money before everything else. Why can we make demands based on things that make us uncomfortable but no one else can?
    You are the perfect example of people she doesn’t want. Since you believe something is idolatry you have the right to protect your lifestyle. But that only applies to you. Everyone else needs to accept you and everything you bring. We’re not Antisemitic Jews we are just able to see other people want the same thing we want.

31. It seems that some of her arguments with religious Jews is that all religious Jews eventually turn their homes into synagogues and don’t pay property taxes which is utterly ridiculous. She also doesn’t say that her boss was probably Jewish and that the Rabbis spoke with him because they had some relationship with him. Most religious Jews in the five towns pay taxes. This is clearly anti-Jewish rhetoric. She also says that all Jews do is create loud noises and cause trouble. She wants to amend the code to prevent synagogues on every street like in the five towns, which is not true. There are on average about 5 synagogues in each of the five towns and that is because there is a need for them. Most of them are not in homes — full scare tactics by an anti Jewish person.

32. Kuvult,
    Your comment is exactly the problem. As Berish put it “If anybody claims this in not anti-Jewish they were too lazy to listen to the clip.” This woman is antisemectic. Period. There’s not “but she has a point”. She has no point. Until we stop joining in after someone says something antisemitic, antisemitic is commended and will continue.

33. Berish:
    On balance, her remarks were wrong. But to claim that they were pure antisemitism, with no substance, is simply unfair.