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A group of more than 100 Ramapo residents, supporters of the anti-Orthodox Preserve Ramapo group, rallied at Town Hall, on Tuesday, calling for a “regime change” and an end to political favoritism. “We’re concerned for our neighborhood. We’re concerned for our town. We just really want to know that the rules are followed,” Airmont resident Renee Pereira-Jersey, a Preserve Ramapo supporter, told The Journal News.

“We love living in Ramapo and we want to make sure that everything is done correctly and safely,” she added.

Rev. Weldon McWilliams IV, of the grass-roots group Wake Up Rockland, led the crowd in chants of “a community united will never be divided.”

“I don’t care what your religion is — if your value system is to exploit the community, I want you out of the way,” he shouted. “This has nothing to do with religion.”

McWilliams, who’s running for on the Preserve Ramapo slate with hopes of representing the town of Ramapo or the village of Spring Valley next year, insisted the pposition to town-sanctioned zoning changes that many believe favor the town’s increasingly large ultra-Orthodox Jewish population, had nothing to do with religious discrimination.

After the rally, protesters crowded into the Planning Board meeting, hoping to voice their opinions about the Eckerson Lane school, but didn’t get the chance because the board adjourned the matter at the congregation’s request.

“People are just fed up. They are fed up with the obvious corruption in this community and the favoritism and the mistreatment,” Hillcrest activist Micheal Miller told The Journal News ahead of the rally.

Mr. Miller has been leading an effort to protest the decision to change the zoning for the  Sanz Klausenburg congregation on Eckerson Lane to build a private school in the current residential neighborhood.

Watch video of the protest below:

(YWN Monsey Newsdesk)