Dear Matzav Inbox,
Over Chol HaMoed, what should have been a peaceful Yom Tov afternoon turned into a scene of chaos and fear for residents living in one of the communities “within the mile.”
A group of individuals, reportedly renting a room in a home owned by staunch “New Square Mile fanatics,” were seen joyriding recklessly through the local streets—speeding, swerving, and zigzagging across the full width of the road. Several residents said they feared for their lives while standing in their own driveways and front lawns, watching in horror as the car lost control, barreled across a front yard, and smashed into two parked vehicles.
Instead of stopping, the group fled, only to crash again nearby and abandon the car. Police later found them next to a house owned by members of the New Square community. “Thank God no one was seriously hurt,” one resident said. “But it could easily have ended in tragedy.”
The terror didn’t end there. Just yesterday, Tuesday, October 21, a woman in the community texted in panic after witnessing a violent altercation next door. “I just watched our neighbors in a huge fight with tires slashed,” she wrote. “I was planning to sit outside with the kids, but I’m scared.”
According to her account, a woman chased a man down the street, pulled out a knife, and slashed his tires as he begged her to calm down. The witness fled inside with her toddler daughter. Residents are struggling to comprehend how such incidents are happening in the heart of Monsey — and worse, that they appear to be caused and even condoned by New Square’s leadership.
This is not an isolated occurrence. The house in question reportedly has around 20 people living there, with frequent turnover and dangerous behavior spilling into the street — as is the case with many homes purchased by representatives of New Square. One neighbor reported, “One of them drove across my yard and into the woods.” Others described a property crowded with abandoned cars and a massive pitbull-husky mix that regularly chases passersby. “People run to our door for safety,” said another.
When a family member who witnessed the chaos reached out to a well-known contact within New Square’s leadership, the response was chilling: “They should do whatever they need to do. We will do ours, and they should do theirs.”
We are now pleading for help — from community leaders and from the public at large. Chassidei Skver must be held accountable, and this disgusting, despicable practice must end immediately, accompanied by a full-throated apology.
To the people of New Square, is this what Hashem wants from you? To illegally overcrowd homes in otherwise peaceful neighborhoods with individuals who stab, threaten, and endanger others? To place lives at risk through callousness, selfishness, irresponsibility, and the thirst for control?
Are you waiting for someone from our community to, chas v’shalom, become the victim of a serious crime before realizing this is wrong? Are you so blind that you cannot see where this leads — or so indifferent that you simply don’t care?
To the decent residents and supporters of New Square who are sickened by what’s happening: please, speak out. Tell your leaders to stop this practice and repair the damage before it’s too late.
And to rational, fair-minded people everywhere — please help apply pressure. Pause all funding to New Square’s institutions until this cruelty ends. No one should have to fear for their life while standing in their own front yard with their children — and certainly not when that danger is being fueled intentionally by people who claim to stand for holiness, honor, and respectability.
A Resident of The Mile
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These henchmen must be brought up on RICO charges. If they act like a crime family, with mafia tactics, they should be treated like one.
This is not the first time this “opinion” has made it to the “matzav schmooze”
Obviously an agenda is being pushed.
Well, let me put it this way, New Square is doing things 100% legally.
In fact, what others are asking, which is that New Square not rent to certain segments, is actually illegal.
Now, you will say but they have to worry about the welfare or those who are not interested in certain elements? Well, isnt that exactly what NS wanted as well? ANd you didnt care much about their concerns, which you felt were to “insular”….
You can screen out applicants who are criminals?
CS, is that so? What they are doing is 100% legal? Renting houses by the room is legal? Getting mortgages (some of them) based on the house being their primary residence? You’re either ignorant or are just trying to lie to people. I know I don’t have to write this but I will, so that it’s clear. In none of our complaints did we say that none Jewish people can’t be renting here. What we are saying is that if you rent a house by the room, in some cases by the bed, you have people that don’t know each other living under 1 roof and that creates a dangerous environment for the whole neighborhood.
It’s not an agenda, it’s actually calling out really bad actors that think they can get away with whatever they want because they are “holier than thou” and because the “velt” thinks they are wonderful people. It’s a scandal to the highest degree and quite frankly New Square leadership are the neglibile ones once this gets criminal and makes national news. They had plenty of time to back down and the world is watching to see if they can put their big boy pants on and own their mistake or if they want to pay the price.
First of all – this isn’t an opinion – its a news story about 2 houses owned by New Square that endangered the lives of their neighbors. Secondly, what New Square is doing is 100% illegal and if people weren’t so concerned with some opinions that say its Mesirah, 50 – 100 people from New Square would be in jail already. All the information needed for that is readily available online
“They should do whatever they need to do. We will do ours, and they should do theirs.”
So do what you need to do.
Illegal overcrowding? Do what you need to do. (If the tenants are not here legally, call ICE. Otherwise? Figure it out.)
Is a dog chasing pedestrians? Do what you need to do. (animal control etc)
General nuisance? Make friends with your local cops.
Create a coalition of frum neighbors. Security cameras. Civilian patrols (like Shomrim). Equity groups to buy up anything that comes to market.
The other direction? Beis Din. Courts. The issue with that route is that they seem to be an unofficial group, so there isn’t any leader to serve a hazmana to.
Stop your constant complaining. Do something!
For starters, a simple phone call to ICE would make a huge difference. They aren’t controlled by the state and would have a field day hanging out in the mile and thinning its rank.
Well, people who live in Squaretown and daven in a separate minyan deserve to have their house burn down.
Glad you’re not a dayan on a B”D.
Kvod HaGavad Shlita how exactly how would you pasken this case ?
What are the hilchos shcheinim required of the Skverer Chasidim
Have you any knowledge in this field ?
“such incidents … appear to be caused and even condoned by New Square’s leadership?”
Seriously? Caused by? I think it’s a little overboard. Why not stick to the facts which seems compelling enough. Here you lost credibility.
It’s even more than caused by, it’s a blatant disregard for any Frum residents of Monsey aside for themselves and intent to damage others. Not a single Rav or Rebba has publicly supported New Squares mile policy. That should tell you what you need to know.
When they were in the lurch a few years ago with their legal issues everybody came to their aid they should have a little bit of respect and hakaras hatov!
I feel terrible for this writer. However, firstly, skver chasidim don’t read this site. Secondly, did you ever try speaking directly to their Rebbe?
And finally, I remember when this all began before even one Jew moved there they begged everyone not to come (which I BTW totally don’t understand and think is ridiculous), a bunch of oiber chachomim came and said I’ll do what I want and skver won’t tell me what to do, this is what you get…
Same is happening near KJ and don’t make the same mistake, people are super passionate about something they spent 65 years building.
“And finally, I remember when this all began before even one Jew moved there they begged everyone not to come (which I BTW totally don’t understand and think is ridiculous), a bunch of oiber chachomim came and said I’ll do what I want and skver won’t tell me what to do, this is what you get…”
There were jews living there before skver moved there in the 1960 and the community was growing before skver put out the letter in 2017
KJ has a better point because they actually moved out from the Jewish population and started their own community with their own resources and didn’t do what skver did just move a drop further out then the well established part of Monsey and heavily relied on Monsey resources till they made some of their own…
This most definitely gets back to the people that need to see it.
Yes it was tried a few years ago and he kicked the group out.
They put some gentle letter in a paper that isn’t read by Litvish people some 10 years ago. That doesn’t give them the right to control a real estate space 16x bigger than their village.
I don’t understand why they don’t just call 911 and shomrim when crimes take place??
The naive people from far away, who don’t get what’s happening, don’t grasp the situation, should stay out of it, rather then pontificating to those in the know.