New York county GOP takes down video warning of Hasidic Jewish 'takeover' BY OWEN DAUGHERTY

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23. well said

Yep. As you point out, this kind of social friction is almost inherent in areas with cultural (and demographic) flux. The term "gentrification" has come about to describe (one form) of this type of conflict. Adding "religion" to the mix just gives us a handy label (and target?). It's obvious we don't have much of a handle on how these things work .. how they play themselves out .. or how to better manage, or cushion, the impacts and frayed fabric. Perhaps in the future the social sciences can help us find paths to mitigate?
(in my own case .. I frankly don't have a lot of use for organized religion of any stripe .. and particularly for those that insist on bullying and hectoring in the public square. I'll be much happier if my country can return to an ideal that articulated that "freedom of religion" at some basic level means freedom FROM religion)