This Thursday, Mahwah will vote on the second reading of Ordinance 18201, which rolls back the ban on out-of-State residents using Township parks. The ban was put in place after hysterical recountings of a “Jewish invasion” spread throughout social media and within the halls of Town Council meetings.
The vitriol on display since the summer has been deplorable. It’s good that the pendulum has started to swing back. But Mawah’s Council President, Robert Hermansen, wants it to stop on a dime — right back in the center where this all began. That’s not how pendulums work. In order to reverse course, it’s helpful to know how you got into the ditch. When it comes to confronting the animosity, fear and hatred which is infused in Mahwah’s discriminatory ordinances, the Council has shown no sign of being self-aware.
I and many others have been calling for the repeal of this ill-advised gambit against neighboring Hasidic Jews, since July. So have a handful of Mahwah residents.
Watch and contrast how the Council treated vile comments from a resident at the last meeting, with comments from the East Coast Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center:
At the December 14th Council meeting, a resident approached me Read More
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