FL County Magistrate Rules Jewish Couple Can’t Use Condo for Prayer
- Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:36pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A Palm Beach County, FL couple was at the center of a religious freedom debate on Wednesday when a local magistrate decided that their prayer practices were not up to code. Literally.
Isaac Feder and his wife Judith, Hasidic Jews, have drawn the ire of their neighbors and the county for turning an extra condo they own in the Century Village condominium complex into a makeshift synagogue. According to those in the community, the Feders’ constant praying, and the coming and going, is disruptive. They complained to the county, which in turn found that Feders were violating zoning laws.
Isaac and Judith Feder.
An attorney for the county argued that it is illegal to use the second condo in the village as a only house of prayer instead of just, well, a house. Local station WPBF summarized the county’s argument: “You can pray in your home, but you can’t buy a home just to pray in.”
For weeks a battle raged between the neighbors, the Feders, and those who supported the couple. The Feders — which only live in the area during the winter — says they sometimes sleep at the extra condo, as well as entertaining guests in it. In the end, the neighbors, and the county, didn’t buy it:
But what‘s interesting is that the riff between the neighbors isn’t really between Jews and Christians, Jews and atheists, or even Jews and Muslims. Rather, as Palm Beach Post writer Frank Cerabino says, almost the entire village is Jewish — so the debate is between Orthodox Jews and non-Orthodox Jews.
According to Cerabino, the more modern residents are upset about a transformation they see happening withing the village:
Jewish residents at Century Village talk freely about their condo community being overrun by the more zealous members of their own religion, whom they view as clannish and disrespectful of social norms – most notably, turning community pools into ritual cleansing baths.
“If they can get three or four people on the board, they can get control of a building,” said resident Elaine Brown. “And then they can change the rules. This is the greatest threat to the Village we’ve ever seen.”
Aron Sandel, a seasonal resident and an Orthodox Jews who lives in the complex, denies the group is disruptive, and feels many of those critical of the Orthodox members are overreacting.
“We don’t have weapons. No guns. Everything is quiet,” he told the Post. “In order to pray, we need a minyan, and that’s 10 men. Sometimes we have a hard time making the minyan.”
“It’s really not about zoning,” Sam Koenig, a 64-year-old Orthodox Jew within the complex, told the Post. “This crowd doesn’t want this because it reminds them of an Eastern European shtetl, and makes them feel as if they’re going back in time.”
“If they win, I’m going to turn my apartment into a mosque,” Maynard Merel, a modern Jewish resident vowed.
They didn’t.
For now, there won‘t be anymore prayer gatherings at the Feder’s extra apartment. And no mosque at the Merels’ place either.
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Comments (100)
Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:04amI am m.o.t., but, I can’t agree that having so many people coming and going and praying loud enough for other people to hear (who may not want to…isn’t that like playing YOUR music too loud for the neighbors?) is asking a bit too much.
Sorry, I can’t support them.
Report Post »pammypoo
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:57amI agree. We have some downstairs neighbors, who moved in around the same time as us. Well the woman is a “minister” and they would have their group come over and they would be yelling and screaming…Jesus….white-trash. I had to call the landlord numerous times and they were given warning letters…They would also be yelling and screaming in the middle of the night. When they had their group over, you could hear them all over the building. Disturbing the peace! They haven’t had their group over for a long time, but are still loud and up at all hours of the night, along with a their year old and a teenage son!
Report Post »florida123
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:01amWhere am I RUSSIA………………Of course you can buy real estate and use it to pray in……….Good Grief what is the courts problem???
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:20amThis is a condo building, similar in appearance to apartment buildings. I would not be happy if I lived in an apartment complex and someone rented an apartment and turned it into a Church. Religion has nothing to do with it. It’s called consideration for others. I don’t care what religion, I don’t care who it is, I don’t care if someone wants to have a little bar for them and their buddies, it shouldn’t be done there. That is why there are zoning laws. If they let these people get away with it then they couldn’t stop someone from starting a Mosque there or any other type of religion.
Report Post »Navyveteran
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:48amZoning laws are unconstitutional! Read Pawhuska post he said it very clearly and accurately! If these ppl don’t like what the jewish couple are doing, then sell the condo who would love to have a synagogue near them, especially if they are handicapped and can’t drive to a synagogue for worship!
Report Post »American_Alliance_for_the_Support_of_Sarcasm
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:47amWHAT?!
They can buy a home to do what ever they please in!
Most of all pray in.
Where is your seperation of church and state now?
You have the State telling you where you can and can’t pray.
TYRANNY!
Report Post »BobParker2003
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:01amThis is so like Nazi Germany. Why not an American KRISTALLNACHT? Well based on this judges idea, why not? Wouldn’t that be justified? This is truly disgusting!
Report Post »phil1765
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:07amSo exactly how is it that these people praying in a condo that they own infringing on anyone else? They said that they coming and goings were a source of annoyance for neighbors, so we are going to go there now? How is it that suddenly someones neighbors can determine when you come and go?
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:32amI wonder if you’ve ever lived in a apartment bldg, where you can hear almost everything your neighbors are doing through the walls and wildows and doors. Excessive noise originating from one’s neighbors on a regular basis (above activities of normal everyday living) is very stressful.
I think a call to the cops might have been sufficient to lower the Feder’s noise level IF-IF-IF they cooperated. But I also think there‘s an issue boiling below the surface here that’s probably going to trump anti noise and zoning laws and you probably have the right idea about it. Bottom line, if they weren’t breaking contractual agreements, their “home” is theirs, period. While there’s a lot of animosity between Hasidic Jews and non-orthodox Jews as the article says, no one has the legal right to dictate how you live your life, the number of guests you have, or the frequency of visits. IMO
It sure helps to have a cooperative spirit, though. Doubt that’ll ever happen in this case.
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:43amWeird.
They’re violating zoning laws.
Report Post »Pawhuska
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:47amzoning laws are unconstutional!
Report Post »the founding fathers almost said the inalienable rights were life liberty and property (and they should have)! Their fear was weakening the power of the goverenment to take property for the public good for roads etc. The problem is that governments only know force! They now in essence “own” all property by property tax which is wrong and by zoning laws which are wrong! Your rights and ownership have been usurped by the “common good” that is communisum. Freedom says you have a right to act in your own self interest and because that is a general concept that people will generaly follow if thay have the freedom to do so then the common good is better served and freedom is maintained!
BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:27amI can’t take all the ignorance on this site. This was not the city suing the Feders. This was the Condo Association suing the Feders for violating the contract of the purchase of the condo. Doesn’t anyone give a fig that the Feders knowingly signed a contract and then violated it??!! If the law doesn’t mean anything, especially private contract law, then the erroneous Bill of Rights have no meaning either! Either the law means something or it doesn’t. Why do you people hate the law?
Also, people keep mentioning Sharia law being implemented which has NOT happened. If it does, I will be the first to shout about it. A judge ordering MEDIATION to be conducted within Islamic law means NOTHING. MEDIATION MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT BOTH PARTIES’ CONSENT. It is like a judge ordering marriage counseling before a divorce. That marriage counseling may be done by a priest! That doesn’t make it Jesuit Law! Who cares! It’s just mediation! It’s what allows Judge Judy to make “rulings” because both parties sign an agreement to abide by the “judge’s” ruling- it’s a private contract with no legal order except under ordered mediation.
Report Post »Pawhuska
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:32amI agree with your premise about private agreements.
Report Post »I disagree with your previous post about the “power vacum”.
The constitution is still the supreme law of the land and there are some powers reserved to the states but others are off limits to all except for private agreements. Yes freedom of religon, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, and on and on are freedoms that cannot be regulated or Zoned out of existance. Just because congress can make no law doesent mean that states or counties or cities can; or else the “rights” would mean nothing and the constution would cease to be the supreme law of the land. However personal property rights allow a property owner to set standards and rules for their own property and if a person bought a condo with agreed restrictions then as a matter of private property agreement they have the right to set private rules. I believe you have a “right to keep and bear arms” and no government body has any authority to restrict that, but as a property owner if one choses to prohibit the carring of arms on their private property that is fine. You have freedom of speech but you cannot come into my house and say anyting you want any way you want on my property! So I stand with you on property rights but do not agree that any government body has a right to restrict bacic freedoms! There is no power vacume! The power is with the property owner! Some infringments are not permitted to any government body! Unfortunately we have lost sight of the rights of the property owner in this country and expect the city or county to Zone the use of others property to our liking. Private property agreements are a much better way to go! If we don’t return to private property rights in this country all freedom will soon be lost.
Chet Hempstead
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:55amYeah, and the use of the word “house” in the story is very misleading. What we’re really talking about is a fairly small apartment in a big building with dozens of other apartments. So if you live right next door to someone who is having a dozen or more people come in to pray three times a day seven days a week you would be absolutely right to consider that a nuisance that you shouldn’t have to put up with.
Report Post »louise
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:38amJesus Christ met in homes with other believers. Nuff said. This is my property . If we have people come over to study the Word of God and pray…..it is NO ONE’S business.
Report Post »Dan
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 2:22amAgreed.
Report Post »jokar
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:51amI’ll bet anything that if it were Muslims, they would not care. Heaven forbid!
Report Post »“We are liberal, open-minded Jews, but Religious Jews?? So embarrassing…
BurntHills
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:35amsounds like the spoiled young obama-jews want the actual ‘real’ jews to go away ..and stay away
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:35am“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; … ”
But that doesn’t stop Congress and all the other high handed meddlers from DISRESPECTING an establishment of religion – and anything and anybody else they decide to jerk around.
How can we stop all these damn meddlers?
Report Post »They won‘t just leave us do as we please when we don’t interfere with others.
I am starting to believe Jefferson had it right about spilling the blood of tyrants and patriots about every twenty years.
Nothing else seems to be getting their attention.
BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:58am1) Congress didn’t make this law. Anyone who believes in smaller Federal Government believes in larger local government. There cannot be a power vacuum. State’s rights mean that states and municipalities can make these decisions for themselves.
2) If a group of Muslims or Scientologists were to file into a privately owned McDonalds filling it to capacity and start preaching the Koran, would the police be violating the first amendment if they made them leave at the owner’s request? Just as the owner of the McDonalds has rights to his own property, the owners of these condos in an associated HMA has the right to restrict the use of property. It’s in the contract these people knowingly signed.
3) It is within the rights of a city to have zoning laws. This is not a private bible study in someone’s residence, this is an unoccupied building being used as a synagogue in a condo that is zoned for single-family occupation.
4) If you want to own property with no restrictions a) don’t enter into a contract with a Homeowners Association b) buy your property in out of the city into the county.
If this were Muslims you would be singing a different tune. I’m pretty sure you would not want to live next to a good ol fashioned sheep slaughter during Ramadan! And don‘t say you can’t have animals in the city- that’s ZONING- and it’s also their religion! If you’re for the synagogue you should be equally for a mosque in the bungalow next door slaughtering sheep. Same, same.
Report Post »TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:17amBuuuuuuuut….the courts sad allowed Shariah to be practiced? Um, am I the only one seeing the writing on the wall here?
I’m keeping my hands in my pockets when I leave my house.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:05amThis is just a landmark unbelievable intrusion into our homes we can’t stand for. I can but I can’t believe these liberals in high places, they‘re almost challenging the American population to ’come and get us, we dare you”..
They just may get their wish if 2012 doesn’t get here soon!!
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:14amAs to the praying, Perhaps if they just change it over to a dual usage Mosque and crack house it’ll fly?
Report Post »kenia110
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:04amI’m a Florida attorney. Without knowing more about the details in this case, it is difficult to say if this was the right call by the Magistrate. The fact that the other residents are obviously prejudiced against Hasidic Judaism is irrelevant to the decision. The facts of the case do matter. Zoning laws DO matter. If u move into a community where u have them then u must obey them. It appears that their prayer circles constitute as a definition of a church. Churches fall into zoning laws because in a residential neighborhood such heavy traffic creates a nuisance. In any case, we shouldn’t rush to judgement on this without all of the details.
Report Post »TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:19amKenia, you and I both know that if these people were Muslim and wanted to buy a house for prayer the ruling would be totally different. If you don’t see that, then I believe you are delusional.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:30amWe (Christians) have a long history of using our Homes as secret places of worship during times of oppression & for Bible study, etc. but I have to agree that at a time when most religious sects are not repressed nor is this a “HOME” supplement to standard worship (versus “house”, “apartment”, “condo”, or “residence” – key point HOME is where the heart is the others are waypoints & simple shelters). This does not qualify for exception from zoning laws based on religious exception.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:01amBit of a dilemma for me ‘cuz I’m all for praying anywhere anytime but I can see that if someone in my apartment complex was using the adjacent apartment as a 24/7 church & wasn’t living there I might have a problem w/ all the comings & goings.
Even though certain aspects of worship (hymnals & gospel singing) can get a bit noisy, if this was their primary residence that they offered up as a sanctuary I’d look at it completely different … but to use this spare condo almost as a religious place of business since it was bought purely as a place of worship for a minimum of 10+ men, 3 x per day, x 7 days per week is a tough one for me to reconcile …
Report Post »nappy
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:54pmSame thing is going on here. They turn residential houses into synagogues and then complain their rights to pray are being violated. It is a common tactic. I applaud the decision. This is happening all across the country. Usually with absolutely zero concern for the neighbors that have to put up with the extra people parking, noise, etc.
Most of their critics are also jewish. It has nothing to do whatsoever with being jewish. It has everything to do with being arrogant, self centered and disrespectful to the neighborhoods they live in.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:19amWho is ”THEY”? Who are “THEIR CRITICS”? I’m w/ you the “zero concern for the neighbors” & “disrespectful to the neighbors” part but a bit confused about the “they” part …
Report Post »nappy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:30amThey are usually a chabad group.
This article is misleading at best. I have no doubt that if someone were to actually look into it , like a real journalist should, they would find the other half of the story. This article was a pathetic excuse for journalism.
They usually claim their rights to pray are being denied. This is a very common tactic which has been adopted by the group at large. They also adopt neighborhoods as their own and work very hard to get their people elected to local government. They routinely call their critics ‘haters’ in efforts to change the field of play.
Their critics are normal residents who would like their neighborhoods to remain residential neighborhoods.
Report Post »CrazyJ
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:52pmthe real story is that guy in the background with the huge goiter.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:52amI can’t believe you made me go back and look at the video…..but gosh I think you’re right.
Report Post »WISEPENNY
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:14amOMG it sort of looks like a conjoined siamese twin that didn’t develope all the way. They need Leroy Jenkins to lay hands on that thing.
Report Post »robx
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:51pmI thought we could not tell people where to build? Or is it only mosques that we have to accept anywhere they choose to practice their religion.
“This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.” – Barak H(BANNED)n Obama
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:47pm(scratching my head)
Report Post »So the modern (liberal) Jews are angry with the old fashioned (conservative) Jews?
about prayer?
do these people have the same history??
ahhh never mind.
TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:24amStoic, the modern jews call Hasidics “cultists”. Be that as it may, at least they practice their religion peacefully. Maybe they “annoy” some people with their unusual lifestyle, they still have their 1st Amendment and they are allowed to use it.
The hypocrisy in this country is astounding. They can’t buy a house to “pray” in and the 1st Amendment isn’t relevant, yet when the Westburo Baptists protest funerals they are protected.
I am confused. Doesn’t make sense to me.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:34amThe World is UPSIDE DOWN.
Report Post »zman173rd
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:53am“…so the debate is between Orthodox Jews and non-Orthodox Jews..” I KNOW A LOT OF YOU ARE GOING TO TEAR INTO ME ON THIS ONE BUT HERE GOES.
Report Post »You see this in the way Jewish actors and directors ignore the plight of the Jew. In the way they vote democrat. In the way they seem to have a dislike for Christianity. Whoa! Down boy. I may be catholic by birth and brought up to fear the man who wore his shirt on backward, but It sure seems to me that the Jew votes and runs his business in the same way that the Muslims do. The difference is the quiet way the Jew hides his disdain for Christians. It’s a kind of guilt complex I think that SOME have in that maybe, just maybe, they screwed up. Maybe their Messiah wasn’t supposed to rescue with the sword and bring the wrath of GOD down on the enemy. Hey I’m just a guy who hopes he believes enough in GOD that I’ll make it through the door. I try to live the good life but crap, that’s hard to do. If I know I made the mistakes in life and if I repent for those “sins”, there’s hope for me, but what about the Jew? Can he repent and still be Jewish? See it’s like any other religion that doesn’t believe in Christ and that’s okay cause they’ll all get their own “heaven”, even the atheist. Except for the Jewish folk there’s one teensy difference.
And that’s just an opinion, I don’t live by it or judge others by it. I‘m just sayin’…
BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:10am@ZMAN173RD
Yes, Jews can repent of their sins and still be Jewish. It’s called Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. I hope that answers your rambling incoherent question.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:46pmWant to bet if they were muslim they would have won? The whole system is spinning out of control.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:33amNo doubt ..remember they have to be accommodated.
Report Post »RestoreCapitalism
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:45pmOn the one hand you have Jews, and on the other hand you have liberals who call themselves Jews.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:11amOr you have the real true liberals who just outright hate Jews and don’t hesitate to say it, which you can see on the net at least a dozen times a day :( ie Charlie Sheen
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:31amFunny .. those who hate the Jews .. see no difference .. Only the Jews themselves make that distinction.
Ben Franklin said We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. At the signing of the Declaration of Independence
They might want to take note of it!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:41pmcant people mind their own freakin business????
seems to me they need something to do with their lives………………idle hands and all that
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:47pmI’m left to wonder how Jews praying in their own condo is a bad thing, while it’s good that the Dept. of (so called) Justice is suing a school in Chicago for not wanting a teacher to bail on her students for weeks to go to Mecca and vibrate…or whatever Muslims do there, besides plotting to kill “infadels”.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:39pmHey there all you Jewish people out there that voted for Obama…..are you paying attention now?…..
Report Post »mill
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:00ambaaaahhhhhhhhhh…….they’ll follow anyway…jackboots all the way. Sad and ironic.
Hey, what do you think they would have done if the couple were Muslim..hhmmmm????? Holder would have already ruled in their favor and hung that judge…
good luck all you jewish sheep. wow, that sounds ugly doesn’t it..oh well baaahhhhhhhh you guys voted for the obama, i didn’t.. baaaaahhhhh
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:08amI say that to my many Jewish friends up here in Buffalo Grove IL (which is like Skokie IL demographically) all the time jokingly but obviously seriously.
I give em that “Hey Joe, how’s that hope and change goin?” almost every day to someone or another lol
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:36pmIt wasn’t the praying that was the problem, it was the golden calves on the lawn.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:38pmThat violates so many laws, I don’t even know where to start.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:00amI do believe these people will settle their difference without resorting to bombing each other.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:03amSomething tells me these young and hip Jews would have had no problem if that condo had been used as a swingers club.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:05amThey aren’t the right religion. If they were Muslim no one would even have the guts to bring this up to the zoning board.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:07am“If they win, I’m going to turn my apartment into a mosque,” Maynard Merel, a modern Jewish resident vowed.
Report Post »——————-
‘ a modern Jewish resident ’
Whats that term I’m looking for ….oh yeah:
Self hating Jew
UlyssesP
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:09amStart here. Public nude bathing when turning community pools into ritual cleansing baths is nasty. Especially with the older folks. I mean, if they were ritually cleansing shapely 21 year old Jewish cheerleaders…
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:18amDarmok and Jalad:
Yes it does violate many laws and codes across the board; the core dispute here though seems to be one of ideology and control instead of just about the inconveinences and the law. I hope that the matter can be peacefully resolved, and yet I have to consider also that not too many days ago there was a florida judge who declared Sharia Law will be used to settle a dispute involving Islam.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:26amGold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:05am
They aren’t the right religion. If they were Muslim no one would even have the guts to bring this up to the zoning board.
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I AGREE with you Muslims and it would not have gotten to court they would have thrown it out !
When I was a kid we had “Holy Rollers” who had a building down by the river .. sounds very southern doesn’t it … well it was southern MICHIGAN .. but the neighbors didn’t call the cops or anything when they went on and on night after night in the summer .. remember no air conditioning open windows .. we just learned to “sleep through it”. How much “disruption” could this have caused?
Report Post »greyrider
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:36amWell why don’t you try to start?
Report Post »I am so sick of people copping out of discussions/arguments with this BS.
It is against the law because this complex has a set of rules and regulations that ALL members of the community have to live by and beyond that there are the county zoning laws that these people were found to be in violation of.
Is it lame? Very. Home Owner’s Boards are busybodies with too much time trust me (I lived in a neighborhood that wanted to fine for changing my oil in the driveway of the townhouse I OWNED)
Is it denying these people the right to practice their religion? NO.
You can’t decide which rules/laws/regulations/safety precautions apply to you.
If you can’t come with something better than “I don’t know where to start” than don’t. Either come correct and contribute or stay in your bed eating snacks and telling your shadow how the man is keeping you down.
Robert-CA
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:49am“If they win, I’m going to turn my apartment into a mosque,” Maynard Merel, a modern Jewish resident vowed.
Now that’s so mature .
Hey Maynard why don’t you go back to Israel & cross to Gaza & pray with the muslims in the mosque .
thepatriotdave
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:37amI hope they were praying for that guy sitting behind Mr. Feder. It looks like he needs it.
Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
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dr_funk
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:03amSeems like veiled antisemitism to me.
Report Post »goatkid
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:45amIf they were muslim, or probably anything but Jewish or Christian, no one would care
Report Post »diesel49
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:05amnow if these people were muslim the only story would be some judge in fl. to implement suria law in the place.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:22amstunning abuse of freedom.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:11amCreative, I must say. No property tax, which in Palm Beach County is probably pretty hefty.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:48amInteresting. These people legally own two condos in the complex. One is used for prayer.
Hey, it could be alot worse. They might start something along the lines of the Juillard School of Rap Music or maybe have relatives that like to play hip hop music at all hours.
As for the wit that said he would like to make his condo into a mosque – hey, you go right ahead and do that. Please!!!! If you need names of local Muslims, I’ll help find them. They’d be delighted to help. And you’ll find out all about Sharia law. You won’t have to worry about your swimming pool being used, at least not by the women.
Oh yeah, and let’s be real clear about this. Is your estate in order?
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:55amI agree seems violate as well the fundamental principle of a God given right to property. If a man cannot do with property he has purchased -within reason– whatever he will ( and I cannot compare buying a house to use as a House of Prayer-Cannot compare such to say buying a house to turn it into a Crack house–or cannot compare buying a house for Prayer -to buying a house to set up a house of prostitution.What illegal activity was motive for the purchase of property? If a man may purchase a house to live in on weekends only –why can’t he buy a house to pray in?
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:06pmThese people yell so loud about separation of church and state and then they abuse the law to try to control church. They will pay in the end on Judgement Day!
Report Post »MuddTurtle
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:55pmWhere is our freedom going? Its not like the guy was having wild heavy-metal concerts. Who knew prayers were so disruptive.
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