Monday, June 19, 2006
Check eases school-use controversy
Chabad of Orange County Rabbi Pesach Burston handed schools Superintendent Marilyn Pirkle a check for $900 to cover the operating costs of a summer camp the religious outreach group will host at Taft Elementary School.
"We wanted to be good neighbors," Burston's wife, Chana, said yesterday. "The school's been wonderful to us."
The summer camp will be using the school and its grounds for three weeks in July.
The district has a policy that allows nonprofit groups, even ones not based in the community, to use school facilities free of charge as long as insurance is provided and the event is open to everyone in Washingtonville.
Parents expressed outrage over the district's policy, highlighting the Chabad camp as an example that it needs to change, especially in light of rising costs and taxes.
Some feared taxpayers would reject the district's $73 million budget because of the policy issue. By doing so, the district would have to go on austerity spending and be forced to charge a fee to all groups wanting to use school facilities.
That figure for Chabad amounted to about $900.
"We didn't want our camp to be in the way of a vote," Pesach Burston said yesterday. "Our goal is to bring unity to the community."
Pirkle called it a "gesture of good will." The school board must officially accept the Burston's donation.
A day earlier, the Kiryas Joel Alliance - a coalition of groups opposed to the dominant faction in the Satmar Hasidic village - wanted to be a good neighbor, too.
Alliance leaders gave Blooming Grove Supervisor Charles Bohan $1,200 to cover overtime expenses police incurred during the funeral for the sect's spiritual leader in April.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/06/19/news-kwwvck-06-19.html
Chabad of Orange County Rabbi Pesach Burston handed schools Superintendent Marilyn Pirkle a check for $900 to cover the operating costs of a summer camp the religious outreach group will host at Taft Elementary School.
"We wanted to be good neighbors," Burston's wife, Chana, said yesterday. "The school's been wonderful to us."
The summer camp will be using the school and its grounds for three weeks in July.
The district has a policy that allows nonprofit groups, even ones not based in the community, to use school facilities free of charge as long as insurance is provided and the event is open to everyone in Washingtonville.
Parents expressed outrage over the district's policy, highlighting the Chabad camp as an example that it needs to change, especially in light of rising costs and taxes.
Some feared taxpayers would reject the district's $73 million budget because of the policy issue. By doing so, the district would have to go on austerity spending and be forced to charge a fee to all groups wanting to use school facilities.
That figure for Chabad amounted to about $900.
"We didn't want our camp to be in the way of a vote," Pesach Burston said yesterday. "Our goal is to bring unity to the community."
Pirkle called it a "gesture of good will." The school board must officially accept the Burston's donation.
A day earlier, the Kiryas Joel Alliance - a coalition of groups opposed to the dominant faction in the Satmar Hasidic village - wanted to be a good neighbor, too.
Alliance leaders gave Blooming Grove Supervisor Charles Bohan $1,200 to cover overtime expenses police incurred during the funeral for the sect's spiritual leader in April.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/06/19/news-kwwvck-06-19.html
Comments:
this so called rabbi - pesach burston - is not chabad he calls himself chabad
they are working on having him remove the name which should be done shortly
the people in orange county do not support him and do not go alone with any if his fights he is doing
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they are working on having him remove the name which should be done shortly
the people in orange county do not support him and do not go alone with any if his fights he is doing
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