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A federal court has dismissed claims that threatened to upend newly drawn lines for Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt's district and those of surrounding Assembly districts in Orange and Rockland counties.

While I am in full agreement with the above editorial, I wonder if there is not a double standard in the outrage of the Editorial Board and U.S. Attorney's Office.

Part of Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt's district is involved in a new court fight over the division of the Town of Ramapo and its large Hasidic population in the recent reshaping of New York's 150 Assembly districts.

The town of Ramapo is at the center of a new filing in a federal lawsuit over New York's redistricting process, with a town councilman alleging that the state's new Assembly districts separate the town's Hasidic Jewish communities and like-minded villages.

Firefighters battled a monster five-alarm blaze at a Yeshiva complex in the Town of Thompson Thursday night while students were safely downstate paying respects after the death of a Hasidic leader.