Politics & Government
Chabad House Divides Sherman Oaks Residents
While a number of residents support the 12,000-square-foot synagogue, an equal amount have called for it to be downsized.
Construction of Chabad House in Sherman Oaks continues to rankle residents on both sides of the controversial issue.
It is a discussion that has polarized residents for many months, a large amount of whom feel the proposed 12,000-square-foot structure is too immense for the primarily residential neighborhood.
Others insist that the resistance to this development is simply thinly-veiled anti-Semitism.
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Currently, construction has been "virtually halted," according to the Los Angeles Times.
But Chabad’s attorney, Benjamin Reznik, said this is only a temporary postponement, stating that the city will easily make findings that will allow construction to resume by August.
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Patch is working on a series about the Chabad controversy to be published in the following weeks.
