Ramapo, NY – The town will urge a state judge tomorrow to close down a religious school operating illegally in a Highview Avenue house with safety violations that endanger more than 65 children, officials said today.
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The school – Talmud Torah OHR Yochanan – at 97 Highview Ave. is being operated in a single-family home in defiance of town zoning law and orders to close.
The town has issued the school administrator, Samuel Gross, summonses charging he’s violating town law by running a school.
The two-story, wood-framed house lacks a fire sprinkler system and emergency doors required for a school. The fire alarms also are not hooked into the Rockland Fire Control Center, town officials said.
“We’re concerned about the health and safety of the children,” Ramapo Town Attorney Michael Klein said today after inspectors found classes continued under the same unsafe conditions.
“We are going to state Supreme Court tomorrow and file papers seeking an injunction to close the school,” Klein said.
Busloads of children – ages 3 to 6 – have been dropped off at the school for the past 10 days, according to the town and neighbors.
So happy I moved out of Monsey years ago. Monsey used to be a great place to live in the 80’s. It is a shame is has been ruined over the last 20 years by certain types of people.
Why can’t/don’t they just comply with the regulations? DUH!!
Parents: you really want your precious kinderlach in a potential fire trap?
Is this the same school where the Bobover bochurim practiced their shechita skills several months ago??
I know rabbi gross personaly, he a wonderfull man
it seems for some yeshiva administrators the call of holy money supersedes the law and the safety of the chidren.
what a fiasco, to town has to force a rebbie/yeshiva to insure the safety of his talmidin. What does is he thinking because they are learning Torah it cannot be a safety hazard. Are the parents not concerned for their children s safety?
What happens if there is a fire, who will you blame the rebbie, no, it was because of the sins of the secular, or maybe because some of the boys had internet in their house?
Please grow up, and do not think that you are way above the law.
All your comments are stupid I personally know this place they have no problem making things legal which they are doing right now it is just some anti semitism and a crazy neighbor thats trying to blow things up
Did anyone ever stop to think about the neighbors? Didn’t they buy their house expecting their neighbors to be other people – not a school? Do you know what it is like to live next door to a school. I got that “unexpected pleasure” – and G-d forbid I masur to the Town. I will, in public, be shunned – but in private, since no one is happy (but no one has the guts to do anything) be applauded. Anyone who does this really needs to know this is NOT the thing to do in a residential area where everyone lives in nice little one family houses. I have cars picking up kids at all hours blowing their horns, I have kids walking down the street in the middle of the road – there’s loads of extra cars making it noisy and more dangerous. It is NOT pleasant – even if they are “learning Torah” – let them find some other place to do that where they are not bothering the neighbors. Now imagine what you’d feel like if you were a non-Jew living near this!
Good for the town… this is dangerous and illegal whether it involves Jews, Christians, Muslims or atheists.
Whose school is this? More info, please..when did it open and what grades does it have…
Does anyone in this community, believe in obeying the law of the land. If only they would abide by the law, and do things legally, one would have no complaints. It seems these people believe in a dual law system. One for the yidden, and another for others. Then when they get caught, they begin to scream from every tree top, anti-semitism, everyone is out to get the Jews, etc.
Just put these lawbreakers in jail for a few years, and yoou will dee a decrease in this type of criminal behavior. Think what is will do in teaching our children to be law abiding citizens in a Jewish community, rather than teach them if the Rebbe can break the laws, then it must be okay for us to do the same.
#1 zoning is ok here this block has 2 other regular legal big schools
#2 the problem of safety are 2 stupid little things that takes exactly i min to fix the inspector and nieghbor are just out to get us
My goodness, these are babies, innocent little babies 3-6 years old. I couldn’t imagine sending my precious little one into a building without proper safety guards in place. Is there a fenced in play area? What if these little ones run into the street?
Get proper zoning in a big enough area so that the kids are safe. How can a Mom send her baby to a place like this? I would be worried all day long.