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https://imageusa.com/upstate-ny-legal-battle-underlines-hasidic-community-growing-pains/?amp=1
A simmering legal battle in the Catskills is throwing a harsh spotlight on the friction between expanding Hasidic Jewish communities and local governments across upstate New York. With federal agencies and state officials now weighing in, the stakes have risen sharply in what many see as a flashpoint for religious discrimination in America’s quiet towns.
This week, New York State Attorney General Letitia James issued a pointed letter condemning alleged efforts by the town of Forestburgh to block Hasidic Jews from developing housing. The allegations, said James, if proven true, “would violate the Fair Housing Act” and are “profoundly disturbing.”
“Discrimination on the basis of religion, race, national origin, or other protected characteristics — whether explicit or cloaked in pretext — is not only illegal but fundamentally un-American,” James wrote, throwing her support behind the U.S. Department of Justice, which has filed a federal statement of interest in the case.