The NY Times also featured the piece. My own opinion---a similar situation happened years back in my area (also Rockland Cty). In that case a home owner--Jewish--allied forces against a house being used as a Synagogue next door to him. I know the person and did not like his tactics---but saw his point---Zoning violations which make the community what it is.

The Suffern situation is analgous.   Good Samaritan hospital has always been accomodating--as is Nyack Hospital.   However, they need the space so the people who had the use of Good Samaritan now need another place. Unfortunately a house in that area that gets filled with "transients" on a weekend basis (I do not mean that in a derogatory way---merely as the word implies--temporary) is not n accordance with zoning that keeps the community what it is. It is--what it seems to be---a weekend "motel" for families visiting the hospital.

Pray tell what difference is that to the immigrants--legal and illegal-who overpopulate residences in the area in the hopes for day labor. We cannot allow us to make a distinction from one to the other.

I am not critiquing the immigrants here---I am, merely, trying to show the analogy of the two situations. You know---the goose and the gander analogy. You cannot have it both ways.   What makes an observant Jew more worthy of piling into a house with many people than a Mexican or Guatemalan lawn maintenance person?

Wow---have we come far afield from the Holocaust Thread.


Bill Hahn