New York town must pay $19M for blocking synagogue project

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 []...Click to read more