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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Kiryas Joel weddings spur vandalism; dissidents say rivals responsible 



It took a few days, but the vandals finally got back at Isaac Srugo for marrying off his daughter last week in a ceremony that the Hasidic community's main congregation had not sanctioned.

Srugo woke Monday morning to find the latest handiwork of the self-appointed marriage police: a gallon of white paint poured down the windshield of his SUV.

Ever since dissident community members opened their first wedding hall just outside the village in January, young supporters of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum — the leader of Kiryas Joel's main congregation — have waged an occasional campaign of harassment and vandalism against dissident leaders and relatives of the three couples who have wed so far.

They cruised in trucks with mounted loudspeakers, made harassing phone calls and flipped over the car of a bride's brother, state police reported early in the conflict. Two 15-year-olds were charged with smashing a rabbi's window.

Later, vandals spray-painted denunciations of another rabbi inside a senior-citizen building on Forest Road where religious services are held. And after they failed to derail the second dissident wedding on Feb. 17, they poured sugar in the gas tank of the groom's brother's car.

The third wedding — officiated by Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, the brother and rival of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum — was certain to agitate opponents even more. Srugo said they flooded his phone with harassing phone calls and even harangued his 80-year-old father in Brooklyn.

As he waited Tuesday for the paint to be cleaned off his car and to hear the cost, Srugo said he had no regrets about the venue he chose for his fifth child's wedding.

"We're not going to do it in the other place," said Srugo, a father of 15 who has 10 more weddings to go.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100310/NEWS/3100335/-1/NEWS

Comments:
A real kiddush Hashem!

 

yup~ take away exercise and recreation and waddaya get? Vandalism!

 

Wow!!! Impressive !! Where did they take their lessons???? In yeshivah?

 

Sheesh!! Impressive! Where did they learn this, in Yeshivah?????

 

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