Er, Is This the Purim Party-Shpiel We Were Promised?

Was it like this for Vashti?


HOUSE OF PAIN - $3M ESTATE AN 'S&M LAIR'

(Warning! Slightly Non-tzniyusdik pic)

A meshugga madam who taught people how to be sex slaves turned a stately $3 million Westchester home owned by an ultra-Orthodox rabbinical school into an S&M dungeon, police claimed yesterday.

Mistress of "The Sovereign Estate," Sandra Chemero - who advertised the manse online as a place "where submissives and slaves are immersed in training" - was busted on charges of prostitution and weapons possession for having a stun gun.

Chemero's lair is in the same tony Bedford Hills town that's home to convicted felon Martha Stewart, designer Ralph Lauren and billionaire George Soros.

The 46-year-old dominatrix, who was arrested Tuesday, was free on bail by yesterday afternoon. Bedford cops said that they're still investigating and that they are reviewing "seized business records" of her unorthodox operation.

...Eviction papers were served on Chemero yesterday afternoon by a caretaker for K'hal Adas Kashau, the Orthodox rabbinical school next door which owns the property she had been renting for about six months. [check here for a 1991 story in the NYT *] [see the Rebbe here]

"It's against our religion. It's against the Bible. We've never even heard of such a thing," said a man who gave his name only as Samuel and said he was a rabbi at the school.

Samuel said that Chemero rented the house through a local real-estate agent, and that he and his fellow rabbis didn't want police officers to tell them the tawdry details of what had been going on inside.

"Once it's smut, once it's dirt, we don't want to know more details," he said.

...Neighbors said were surprised to hear of the goings-on in the house.

"That's life. There are all kinds of people with all kinds of quirks. I'd be more worried if they were selling drugs," said Theo Anker, 65, a retired stockbroker.

"It's surprising," said Tom Molito, 60. "There's a country song that says you don't know what goes on behind closed doors, and I guess that's true in any socio-economic situation."

An undercover Westchester County investigator met Chemero, who agreed "to engage in sexual contact" on a later date, police said. Mazurak declined to elaborate on what services she offered.

Just in time for Purim.

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* 600 Hasidim May Be Evicted From Suburban Enclave
By JAMES FERON,
Malka Taub, a mother of 10, moved with her family from the Borough Park section of Brooklyn 11 years ago to help establish a yeshiva in this heavily wooded suburb of northern Westchester, escaping what she remembered was a "rough city." Now, with 600 others -- faculty members and students of the K'Hal Adas Kashau yeshiva and their families -- Mrs. Taub faces eviction from this 169-acre site that has been transformed into a Hasidic enclave, because the yeshiva failed to meet its mortgage payme...

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Kashau was in Czechoslovakia but with a Hungairan minority

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