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Ramapo residents who stole millions from school tech program face prison recommendations

December 29, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

“Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to sentence six Ramapo residents to prison for their involvement in stealing millions of dollars from a federal program designed to provide computer technology to underprivileged students.

Peretz Klein and his wife, Susan Klein, both of Spring Valley; and Monsey residents Simon Goldbrenner, Moshe Schwartz, Ben Klein, Sholem Steinberg and Aron Melber all entered guilty pleas to conspiracy charges in February.

Sentencing had been delayed from June due to the coronavirus pandemic and is expected in mid-January, according to a memorandum submitted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan. A hearing is likely after defense attorneys file their sentencing memorandums with the court. [Read more…]

Filed Under: East Ramapo Central School District, FBI

‘Education equivalency’: State looks again at keeping tabs on private schools, including yeshivas

December 29, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

“The New York State Education Department is again looking at how to enforce state law requiring that academic instruction in private schools be “substantially equivalent” to public schools, holding virtual meetings this week that focused on the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn.

Those are the places where the issue of education in ultra-Orthodox yeshivas has fueled bitter disputes, with leaders of large Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish populations fighting to preserve what they see as educational freedom as activists say some yeshivas fail to prepare boys for a productive future and civic involvement.

Earlier proposed guidelines were struck down in court and proposed regulations were put on the backburner by the state after intense opposition.

A state education official said this week that such guidelines would be issued in 2021.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: East Ramapo Central School District

High court stays out, stalling congregation plans in Pomona

December 2, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

“The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider an appeal involving a Hasidic Jewish congregation’s 13-year-old plan to build a rabbinical college with apartments for students and their families amid 130 acres straddling routes 202 and 306. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Pomona, RLUIPA law

Documentary “America’s Holy War” Now on Amazon Prime

November 23, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

 Filmed in Ramapo, the documentary tells the story of the RLUIPA law and it’s consequences. It’s now available online with Amazon Prime. (View trailer here and for the Amazon catalog listing, click here.) 

RLUIPA (2000):  No government shall impose or implement a land use regulation in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person, including a religious assembly or institution, unless the government demonstrates that imposition of the burden on that person, assembly, or institution, is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Amazon Prime, RLUIPA law

Elections Update: Reichlin-Melnick wins Senate seat over Weber; Lawler unseats Jaffee

November 19, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

“As absentee vote-counting winds down, Democratic state Senate candidate Elijah Reichlin-Melnick and Assembly Republican hopeful Michael Lawler have won election in their respective races, elections officials said.

Lawler’s ousting of seven-term Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee means Democrats will lose a seat in the Assembly while still maintaining majority control of the lower house. Reichlin-Melnick succeeds a Democrat, David Carlucci, and his party will continue to hold the majority. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2020 General Election

Incomplete Rockland Returns

November 4, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

Election Results bannerMore than 36,000 voted same day at the polls and there were 40,000 absentee ballots requested–The returns here reflect the same day votes and don’t include all absentees.

District 17 House of Representatives

Jones        134,845

Gottesfeld   96,634

Eisen             5,732

Parietti          2,132

District 97  New York Assembly

Lawler     26,138

Jaffee     18,562

District  38  New York Senate

Weber    51,571

Reichlin-Melnick  48,422

District 96  New York Assembly

Zebrowski   31,588   (unopposed)

Filed Under: 2020 General Election

Early Voting Has Begun

October 25, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

Filed Under: 2020 General Election

East Ramapo special election set for February, will use a ward-based system for the first time

October 15, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

“A federal judge today called an East Ramapo school board election for Feb. 2 using a ward system for the first time that would include three districts out of nine comprised mostly of minority voters.

The ward or single-member system would replace East Ramapo’s current at-large voting setup, which U.S. District Court Judge Cathy Seibel declared in May violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [Read more…]

Filed Under: East Ramapo Central School District

Ramapo’s Mike Parietti says he carries his principles as he runs for office, now Congress

October 1, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

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Watch the Parietti for Congress Biographical video here.

“Mike Parietti runs for elected office on his principles of good government and anti-corruption. He’s made his case to voters six times since 2007, falling short at the polls each time.

Now, the West Point graduate and former Suffern High School wrestling champion eyes Congress, running on a minor party line for the seat of retiring Nita Lowey representing Rockland and portions of Westchester County in the 17th Congressional District.

Parietti doesn’t have illusions of being the favorite to win the seat as he takes on progressive Democrat Mondaire Jones, a former Obama administration attorney raised in Spring Valley, and Republican Maureen McArdle-Schulman, a retired New York City firefighter. Parietti’s name will be found on the Serve America Movement SAM line on the lower end of the Nov. 3 ballot.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: 2020 General Election

Mail-in Ballots in Rockland

September 18, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

For all voters in Rockland County, here are the procedures and contacts to get your absentee ballot to vote in the presidential election in November.

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