Source: New York Post
One of Long Island’s poshest towns must pay a local Jewish congregation $19 million after spending years blocking construction of a synagogue there. Old Westbury agreed to the whopping payout to settle an 18-year-old lawsuit involving Rabbi Aaron Konikov and the Lubavitch of Old Westbury over a proposed Chabad-Lubavitch temple on Glen Cove Road. The rabbi and his group wanted to build the synagogue on 9 acres of his property, but the project got tied up in federal court when the uber-wealthy town refused to allow the development, and the other side sued.
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