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http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/04-07-29/news-hasidim.html
Hasidim to bring diversity to western Sullivan
By CHARLIE BUTERBAUGH
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — Follow Broadway through East Monticello or take a drive north along Route 42 to Fallsburg and find fixtures of a Jewish community that were born in the height of the post World War II Borscht Belt era.
But as 17 B gives way to large farms and forestlands west of White Lake, bungalow colonies and Kosher markets and food stands dwindle into near non-existence.
Or so went the story of the 20th century Catskills.
The Jewish community, particularly its contingent of Hasidic people, is beginning to seek the fresh air of western Sullivan County and northeastern Pennsylvania, according to Jack Leskowitz of Manhattan, who is in the process of buying the hotel and numerous other buildings at The Meadows in Fosterdale.
Leskowitz plans to use the hotel as a year-round resort for both Jews and non-Jews. He has received limited approval from the Town of Cochecton to use one of the buildings along County Road 114 as a synagogue.
Rabbi Bernard Freilich of the New York State Police said Hasidic communities in New York City are looking for rural campus environments, particularly in Sullivan and Ulster counties, where educational camps and year-round colleges can be established.
Freilich sits on Sullivan County Legislator Jodi Goodman's Committee to Establish Better Relations with Summer Residents, which was created three years ago.
The committee meets monthly to solve problems that arise between continuous and year-round residents of the county. With over 400 bungalow colonies owned by the Hasidic community in Sullivan County, the subject of discussion often focuses on the general public's relations with those colonies.
The main subject of discussion at last week's meeting was solid waste disposal and general sanitation at bungalow colonies.
Freilich said complaints of unsightly garbage have decreased since last year, when extensive presentations were given to educate the Hasidic community about the danger of attracting bears with exposed garbage.
Cochecton Code Enforcement Officer John Drobysh said the new Hasidic community at The Meadows has not posed a trash problem, but visible trash remains an issue among colonies in the towns of Bethel and Thompson, he said.
Currently, residents of the county can either take their garbage to the Sullivan landfill or to a transfer station, or they can hire a hauler to pick it up. Some towns and villages, including Fallsburg and Monticello, contract out the collection of garbage and charge the cost to their residents' tax bills.
But for the most part, the arrangement is set up privately.
This, Drobysh said, is one of the roots of the unsightly garbage problem.
''Let the county do it [contract garbage collection] and share the revenue with the municipalities,'' Drobysh said.
''I wouldn't say the county couldn't form a garbage district,'' said Harvey Smith, the county's commissioner of general services.
''But the appropriate body of government to contract for garbage collection is the municipality,'' Smith said.
The Cochecton Town Board is currently reviewing proposed zoning changes that would prohibit placing garbage receptacles in front yards.
Cochecton's planning board has also recommended that the town require seasonal residence applicants to submit operational plans for managing parking, noise and litter.
Drobysh said he has suggested requiring new religious facilities to obtain special use permits from the planning board, which would allow the board to review an applicant's site plans.
[This article is the first in a series exploring related issues.]
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