Jewish group sues town over headquarters expansion

As one who attended the meeting called by the catholic priests in town, where the Jewish rev. spoke about the plan, well here is the correct info: The SF of the building above ground is just under 5000sf per the two floors, the rest is storage & their ritual bath underground. And they are their final size is the exact size of the Methodist church next door. It is not a P&Z issue, as they conform to it 100%. It is/was some members of the goverment acting foollishly (anti-semitacly) with a historic commission member claiming "there is no place for a Star of David on the Litchfield Green", and a Litchfield selectman hiring her own lawyer to fight the Synagogue, and having him announce at the town meeting "the Synagogue is like a Strip Joint".

Wake up friends its "Obama time" freedom for all!

A Methodist Church sits two doors away from the proposed site of the synagogue; with stained glass windows originally from a Synagogue in New Haven no-less!
Thus; despite Historic District Chair Wendy Kuhne's concern; "....the Star of David may not comply with the district." There's already one or two next door in the windows at the Methodist Church.
I attended one of the Historic District hearings in 2007 and was appalled by the attitude and remarks of commission members as well as a few members of the public.
Not only did a member of the commission request that the Rabbi remove his hat; outside others indicated the real problem wasn't that it was to be a Synagogue but that the Rabbi and his flock were
"...you know, those kind of Jews, not like regular Jews or anything......"
The raw bigotry was overwhelming; as was the irony in that we were standing in a parking lot not 10 miles from the birthplace of John Brown himself!
Surely our forebearers didn't flee Europe in wooden boats and suffer though countless hardships so as to practice their own religion in peace in the hopes that their descendants would treat others in the fashion that had motivated them flee their homeland and settle here in the first place.
The behavior of the Historic Commission has been not only horrifically anti Semitic; but totally un-American as well.
Other, similar RLUIPA lawsuits have garnered financial awards well into the millions forcing municipalities to float bond issues to pay them off.
(See: http://www.rluipa.com/index.php/article/398.h... )
It's a shame the commission members can't be held personally liable for their actions - in this case they would surely deserve it.

a terrible attempt that the rabbi is tring to intimidate through lawsuits

everyone in Litchfield thinks you are a bully

move to Torrington