There was no shortage of blame or finger-pointing in Mahwah on Tuesday, when Christopher S. Porrino, the state’s attorney general, dropped a bombshell complaint against the town that pushed the largest municipality in Bergen County into full-on crisis mode.
At issue is Mahwah’s rocky relationship with the large Orthodox Jewish community across its shared border with Rockland County, New York, and its illegal efforts to keep the community from “Infiltrating” Mahwah, as Porrino put it.
“America is a great place and nobody should have to endure the kind of discrimination that’s emanating from Mahwah,” said Yehudah Buchweitz, a partner in the litigation department at Weil Gotshal and Manges, part of the team going up against Mahwah.
“The township council in Mahwah heard the angry, fear-driven voices of bigotry and acted to appease those voices,” he said.