Nanci Kushner Learns Traditional Values in Monsey, New York

Contented wife and mother and impassioned Pilates instructor Nanci Kushner of Cresskill, New Jersey in the United States was born in New York City in New York State but grew up in the much smaller town of Monsey, which is a census-designated region with the larger town of Ramapo in New York State. Monsey itself surrounds in turn the smaller hamlet of Kaser. Growing up in Monsey, Kushner would have been comfortable with the community of orthodox Hasidic Jews which resides in Kaser and its environs, which includes Monsey.

Monsey, New York in the United States, the childhood home of Nanci Kushner, is within Rockland County, an area in the far southeastern point of New York state which was inhabited before the arrival of European settlers by the Munsee tribe of the Lenape Native Americans, part of the Algonquin-speaking natives who occupied the eastern coast of America at that time. Originally, the lands of present-day Monsey held various Indian camps, one of which is the still visible rock shelters of Monsey Glen, an encampment near the intersection of modern roadways State Routes 59 and 306, where many artifacts have been excavated. A traditional Appalachian glen, Monsey railroad station was established in 1841, a derivative of the spelling of the Munsee Lenape Native Americans.

Nanci Kushner would have been familiar with the sight of Hasidic Jews in Monsey, New York, as 41 percent of the population of Munsey spoke Yiddish, with 6.88 percent speaking Hebrew, according to the census of 2000.

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