Montgomery County, Maryland – Yeshiva board members and a Maryland politician are denying allegations that campaign contributions encouraged the county to spend millions on renovating two religious schools.
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In 1999, the Yeshiva of Greater Washington leased a decrepit building in Montgomery County, Md., with the understanding that the yeshiva would pay renovation costs.
But the county bought the school back and leased a new one for the yeshiva. Allegations have been raised that the $9.9 million package, which provided nearly enough money to cover the renovations at both schools, was influenced by $92,000 in contributions that County Executive Doug Duncan received from yeshiva supporters since 1998.
The second school is a girls school run by the yeshiva.
leave it to the washington compost to make things look worse than they are!
Ok, it’s not so complicated. I live in Silver Spring and the article the Wash Post ran was terrble; basically a reporter striving for criticsm but unable to find. Simply the yeshiva bought an abandoned County school, made it all nice, were kicked out by the county soon after (2 yrs?) and then given another bldg which the county agreed to renovate for them. it looks bad cuz the county had to make the original bldg up to their standards as well(wtrv that means). also it seems yeshiva board members gave money to Duncan’s campaign which i don’t think is a sin…really. Duncan has always been nice and pleasant to the Orthodox community here in SS but there’s no reason why the yeshiva looks so bad for getting bounced around to different buildings like it’s their fault.