Residents of a mountain community in Quebec are trying to stop a Chasidic group from using a summer retreat. Residents of Val Morin want the Belz Chasidim to shut the small synagogue and children’s center they have used as part of their summer vacation retreat for two decades. Val Morin is in the Laurentian Mountains, less than an hour from Montreal by car.
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