Bloomingburg is heading back to war. Officials in an upstate New York town are preparing new efforts to fight the construction of a Satmar Hasidic village after prosecutors indicted the project’s developer, Shalom Lamm, on charges that he conspired to rig local elections. Lamm has worked for years on a secret plan to build 5,000…
Two weeks ago, it seemed like the Satmar Hasidim had won the fight for Bloomingburg. The tiny village 80 miles north of New York City had been the site of a raging battle between an Orthodox developer named Shalom Lamm and a group of stubborn locals for four years over Lamm’s plans to build homes…
Federal prosecutors have charged Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm and two of his colleagues with conspiring to corrupt local elections in the upstate New York village of Bloomingburg by registering non-residents to vote there. This story is no longer being updated. Click here for the latest on the Bloomingburg indictments. According to an indictment filed in…
Federal agents this morning arrested Shalom Lamm, the developer behind a controversial project to build hundreds of homes for Hasidic Jews in an upstate New York village. Update: Lamm has been indicted in cash-for-voters scam. This story is no longer being updated. Click here for the latest. Allan Ripp, a spokesperson for Lamm’s attorney, confirmed…
When Mrs. F. and her husband decided to move away from Kiryas Joel, the upstate New York shtetl where they grew up, they went to their rebbe to ask for advice. The couple couldn’t move just anywhere. Both are members of the Satmar Hasidic group, and like all ultra-Orthodox Jews, they had special requirements: a…
A battle for the upstate New York village of Bloomingburg is ending, and the Satmar Hasidim won. While reporting on the progress of the Orthodox development in Bloomingburg, the Forward was given a tour of a new Satmar school for boys being built in an old warehouse in town. Signs in the school called it…
The Forward’s article this week on the dispute over a new Satmar development in Bloomingburg is built on years of reporting by many outlets. For those interested in digging deeper, we suggest checking out the following stories and resources. The Times Herald-Record Without a doubt, the newspaper that has paid the closest attention to the…
— An upstate New York village and its host town will pay a Jewish developer $2.9 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that they tried to stop new housing for Hasidic Jews. The Village of Bloomingburg and the Town of Mamakating agreed Friday to the settlement with Shalom Lamm and his Sullivan Farms II…
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