The First Baptist Church is on a dead-end street in Spring Valley, N.Y., hard up against the railroad line that peters out a few blocks north. Adam Baldachin, a 30-year-old Conservative rabbi, stood at a podium under a fluorescent light in the church basement, backed by two-dozen religious leaders including black pastors in collars and…
The body of a missing father of seven was found inside his car in a ravine in an upstate New York park. Peretz Sontag, 50, of Pomona in suburban Rockland County, was found dead Sunday by a hiker in Harriman State Park. The cause of death is not known. A funeral was planned for Monday…
A father of seven from New York’s Rockland County is missing after making suicidal comments. MONSEY: A $20K reward is now being offered to find the missing 50 Y/o Peretz Sontag…. pic.twitter.com/Q5yNk6tGFJ — News & Pictures (@TheFrimer) March 19, 2014 Search efforts continued on Tuesday for Peretz Sontag, who has been missing since Friday morning….
After a decade of fighting a public school board dominated by Orthodox Jews in suburban New York, Oscar Cohen, a soft-spoken 71-year-old with a reputation for composure, is starting to get angry. “You have eight school districts in Rockland County,” the retired school administrator told the Forward recently. “One is cutting every nonmandated service to…
Spanish-speaking voters in Rockland and Ulster counties in New York will receive assistance at the polls this November to ensure an easy process for casting their ballots. Similar concessions, however, have not been made for the large Yiddish-speaking population of Hasidic Jews in the upstate counties. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that bilingual Spanish/English…
Ankie Spitzer led a minute of silence to honor the 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team killed in a terror attack at the 1972 Munich Games during the opening ceremonies of the JCC Maccabi Games. Spitzer, the widow of an Israeli coach who was killed at the 1972 Games, led the minute of silence…
Things have gone from bad to worse for the Hasidic Jews living in New Square and a few other Hasidic enclaves near the Catskills. A few weeks ago, we told you about the battle in Rockland County over a proposed kosher slaughterhouse that would be built less than a hundred feet from a residential neighborhood…
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