The Jewish
Supremacist claim that Jews are “marrying out” and will “vanish due to
assimilation” in America have been exposed as lies once again with the news
that the Orthodox Jewish population in New York City has grown so much that
whole neighborhoods have been taken over.
According to an article in the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
the area around Park Avenue, Brooklyn, was for “decades” a “derelict corner of
New York’s most populous borough” which “was the domain of dangerous street
gangs and dilapidated industrial buildings. The name of its
neighborhood, Bedford-Stuyvesant, was synonymous with urban decay and
crime.
“But driven by
the explosive growth of the Jewish population in neighboring Williamsburg, a
stronghold of the Satmar hasidic sect, untold numbers of haredi Orthodox Jews
recently have moved into the area, and now many consider it part of Jewish
Williamsburg.
“Ten years ago
there were no Jews living here,” said Moishe, a construction site manager of a
large residential building who declined to give his last name. “Then they
changed the zoning. Now it is going heavy.”
The changes in
the neighborhood are among the consequences of the explosive growth of the
Orthodox Jewish population in America’s most Jewish city. That growth is
altering not just the composition of America’s largest Jewish community, but
city neighborhoods, too.
A study released
last month by the UJA-Federation of New York identified Williamsburg as home to
the second-fastest Jewish population growth in New York City. About 74,500 Jews
~ mostly haredi Orthodox ~ lived there in 2011, up from 52,700 a decade
earlier.
The
fastest-growing Jewish neighborhood of the city was Borough Park, another
haredi Orthodox stronghold in Brooklyn. More than 130,000 Jews lived there in
2011, up from 76,000 in 2001. Together, these two areas accounted for
two-thirds of the 10 percent increase in the number of Jews living in New York
City, Long Island and Westchester County between 2001 and 2011, according to
the study.
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