This time it's Clifton.
The Herald News (that's the Record's sister newspaper in Passaic County) had this on Sunday's front page: TEMPLE PLAN IRKS SOME NEIGHBORS
Seems like the residents of a certain part of Clifton, near the Passaic border, don't want the orthodox to have a new synagogue in town.
The great excuses include this from a Mrs. Greenwald: "When they moved into this community, they knew that there was no facility here. I am not in favor of it. Number one, because it will change the tenor of the neighborhood." In other words, it means more of those darned orthodox jews moving in, and actually walking down the streets.
From a Mr. Goldberg: "It's not necessarily resident against resident. It's really nonresident against resident." That means, those orthodox jews aren't really residents. You know, they don't use our public schools, they don't attend the town concerts on Friday nights. They're not really residents. The fool should realize that since orthodox jews have to walk to their synagogues on Shabbat, it is ONLY residents of the neighborhood who want or need this shul.
Teaneck residents may feel free to substitute Barbara Toffler for Dennis Kirwan in the next paragraph:
Dennis Kirwan, Clifton's city planner, said he opposes the synagogue plan as it's proposed because if approved, the site would be used intensively in a residential zone, and because Dwasline Road lacks sidewalks.
NO SIDEWALKS! Jews would have to walk in the streets! Quick, call Peter Applebome at the New York Times so he can write an expose on how those nasty orthodox jews are ruining our town. We don't want it to become like Rockland County here!
I wonder if Kirwan is also a business ethics consultant with absolutely no ethics of his own, just like our precious Barbara.
And just like our wonderful non-observant neighbors in Tenafly, who called in a Jewish lawyer to try and block the eruv, the self-haters in Clifton have called in attorney Ira Weiner, who states: "It's a very large building that's very close to the property lines and has insufficient parking by a large margin." (Note that the plans call for 35 parking spaces).
Ah, the parking argument again. Because the jews with the black hats drive to shul on Shabbat! Parking for what? When will people finally see that making an argument about parking when it relates to a synagogue is in and of itself an anti-semitic statement, especially when you know damned well that people walk there (in the streets, because there are no sidewalks).
Here's my solution: Build it anyway. Then move the rabbi and his family into the building and call it a residence with a really big living room. Now try to fight that one, you bastards!
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So I guess what you're trying to say is that you *hate* the self-haters, right? That hate should be directed outward rather than inward?
This blog may be irritating to other people, but I find it hysterically funny. Out of Rightfield, you are like Teaneck's very own Stephen Colbert.
I say wear black walk aroung the streets at night and get run over.
Anonymous said...
I say wear black walk aroung the streets at night and get run over.
:) sounds local and familiar
When will people finally see that making an argument about parking when it relates to a synagogue is in and of itself an anti-semitic statement, especially when you know damned well that people walk there
Is this the smoking gun that proves that OORF is about as Jewish as Stephen Colbert is rightwing? OORF should know damned well that synagogues are used throughout the week and people do drive to them.
The weekday services don't draw the Saturday crowds. There are 35 parking spaces in the initial plan for this synagogue, which should accommodate weekday parking needs. Note there will be only a "warming kitchen" not a social hall or catering hall, so other than the occasional bris, it is hard to imagine what the REAL problem is... or isn't it?
The weekday services don't draw the Saturday crowds.
Sure. Have you ever driven past the synagogue up on Queen Anne Rd near the highschool on a week day? People parked on both sides of the street, parking to close to corners, real joy trying to drive down the road.
Seems that parking is allowed on both sides of Queen Anne Road near the synagogue, off Grayson Place.
So, what's the problem?
Out Of Rightfield said...
Seems that parking is allowed on both sides of Queen Anne Road near the synagogue, off Grayson Place.
So, what's the problem?
what is the problem, are you serious? idiots parking on both sides of the road making the road even narrower, traffic still moving in both directions, idiots that open their car doors without looking to see if traffic is coming or not, jew school bus stop that requires the bus to stop in the middle of the road! So your stupid comment that weekday services don't draw a crowd is idiotic! Is your snood wrapped too tight, cutting off the circulation to your half breed brain?
What is a "jew" school bus stop anyway?
What is a "jew" school bus stop anyway?
that would be the place that the jew kids get on to their school buses to go to their jew schools.
To alleviate the anti-semitic feeling of many of our neighbors, we should ask our rabbis whether weekday synagogue services should be canceled.
To alleviate the anti-semitic feeling of many of our neighbors, we should ask our rabbis whether weekday synagogue services should be canceled.
its ok no need to cancel the weekday services perhaps you can just meet in each others basements instead of blocking main roads in town during the morning rush hour.
you keep going on and on about the anti-semitic feeling in town, have i missed a skin head rally in town? perhaps you are confusing teaneck with modern europe?
Guess you missed the previous post about the "jew buses" for the "jew kids"
Guess you missed the previous post about the "jew buses" for the "jew kids"
so those buses dont carry jew kids headed to the local day schools? pointing out the obvious is now anti-jewish OOR?
please unwrap your snood or at least loosen it!
i must of confused the big yellow buses with the other jew buses i keep seeing, you know the half falling apart ones that look like shit and say MONSEY on them.
Next thing we should do is get a curtain down the middle of the aisle on the 167 and 167Q and have a minyan every morning. That will also be a "jew bus." And woe unto any woman that gets on the wrong side of the curtain. Snood or no snood!
That will also be a "jew bus."
will NJ Transit paint them yellow and only load and unload jews from them?
can you imagine the stink that would emanate from the buses if they had a minyan every morning. my only complaint from riding the 167 and 167Q is that some men that wear those skull caps really need to learn what soap, water and deodorant are all about. I dont know how their families tolerate the stench that emanates from their bodies
I don't want to get involved in an old argument but I just want to point out that the shul in Clifton that you are talking about 35 spots is more than enough for any time they get together except maybe a big simcha during the week but they arent going to be doing big catering stuff there. The issue is that in Clifton you need 1spot for every 4 people and there are only 120 spots in the sanctuary so they should be fine. The reason that they aren't is b/c the anti semites on the planning board are counting it as 240 people b/c of the social hall except that the social hall and the sanctuary will never be used at the same time.
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