Sin-A-Gog Outrage: This Is Getting Ridiculous
Perhaps the lettering on the side of the Kent Avenue death trap synagogue is a hint that the Satmar powers that be have no intention of finishing this eyesore anytime soon. Isn’t there some kind of DOB regulation about leaving a project unfinished, especially one done in such brazen violation of building codes? Synagogue Needs…
Perhaps the lettering on the side of the Kent Avenue death trap synagogue is a hint that the Satmar powers that be have no intention of finishing this eyesore anytime soon. Isn’t there some kind of DOB regulation about leaving a project unfinished, especially one done in such brazen violation of building codes?
Synagogue Needs Some Skin, Baby! [Brownstoner] GMAP
Video: Is the New Satmar Synagogue Safe? [Brooklyn Record]
Oh please. Let’s not use this space on this site talking about religion, racism and trying to compare Blacks to Jews to Buddhists to Martians. It’s bad enough I have to watch some Lesbian breastfeed her 7 year old kid in a shoestore on the floor blocking the doorway yesterday and now this? Save it for another blog. Someone put a decent restaurant on Fulton St please.
I think it is a matter of priorities. They need a place to worship… asap. If this were the deep south they could throw up a tent on some piece of vacant land. Or even a giant metal shed, which is how my family first started worshiping together as a community of less than 100. 15 years later that shed is now a amazing beautiful brick church.
Jeremy -free speech is still a right in this country. Agreed. But I call it like I see it and to be frank, while it’s not my aesthetic, many of the buildings put up in Hasidic neighborhoods are a far cry better than the crap I see going up everywhere else. I don’t object to anyone calling a building ugly- I find it repulsive when when one particular group is constantly singled out as if they are the only ones to blame. Nor do I see anyone else who puts up a crappy building being identified by racial or religious group. And if the shoe fits, wear it- your “West bank” comment only served to illustrate my point.
FYI- I am Jewish too, and Mentch is right. Until you have been singled out for being a Jew, or a Black, or Buddhist or any other minority, until you have been refused service because of the color of your skin, beaten up because of your beliefs, or told you you don’t belong because you don’t believe in Jesus, you don’t have a clue what it feels like or even how to recognize it. And yes- I speak from experience.
Jeremy, I’m a devout reader and commenter on this blog, having expressed my opinion here on many issues, so I will try to give my 2 cents here too.
I don’t know about you, but I am a hasidic Jew, -although not associated at all with the group that build (if we can call it so)the synagogue-, so I can tell you when Jews are offended, and when not, you cannot come and tell me if I’m offended by any deed or comment from different person, as long as you have not experienced on your own skin, the feeling of being “different” and a member of a particular minority.
I have been troubled, to say the least, my many comments AND posts on this, and similar blogs, referring with very unkind words and terms towards hasidic Jews, I am NOT accusing our dear author the Hon. Mr. Brownstoner of being an anti-semit, nor some of the commentators, but the lack of sensitivity, is very very obvious on this site.
Let’s say. for sake of this debate, that many developers of those all ugly-ass buildings in Brooklyn are Hasidic, so what? out of tens of thousands, there are some who you can probably count with your fingers, that do their business in a way very not appreciated by most people, and I totally understand them, but they are a few, their may be a lot of projects, but most are from the same developers, this does not give a reasonable excuse to mention Hasidic Jews in such negative terms, and certainly not all hasidic developers.
Some of the most beautiful projects in Brooklyn are developed by Hasidim too, The Gretch, 55 Berry, Pacific Blue, the toy factory lofts, the chocolate factory lofts, to name just a few, so my main point is, Don’t blame all apples, because you have a few rotten ones.
And to Mr. Brownstoner, sorry if I come out here as being harsh on you, I love your work, and appreciate your much time and energy devoted to this site,-one of the first sites that I have to read each morning- it,s just one place where I think there is a lot of room for improvement.
Any House of Worship is a violation in rational thinking.
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike
Bx2Bklyn: yeah it must be our virulent anti-Semitism. Or, it could just be our disgust with parts of Brooklyn starting to look like a West Bank settlement sans the bougainvillea. They’re their homes, they should do what they want, but we can certainly say they’re cynical and tacky.
Shahn Anderson is condoing it.
I’m also a little uncomfortable with some of the comments. And why do the satmars and Hasidic groups get so much attention here? If anyone wants to take a look at houses of worship that endanger their congregations there are plenty of churches to go around, not to mention all those little storefront places. Yet no one says anything about them. This just seems like an attempt to drum up hysteria and more bad feeling (very successfully with anon 11:28). I am all for facts and truth but this thread seems to be stretching.
to anon 10:59, re: “in some ways it is a deconstructive work” … oh please, do the world a favor and get your head out of your ass, will you?