JTA — Richard Roberts had a pretty good idea what kind of video Tyler Oliveira was planning to make about Lakewood, his heavily Orthodox town in New Jersey. After learning of Oliveira’s planned trip, Roberts, a prominent and wealthy Lakewood resident, watched Oliveira’s recent upload, “Inside the New York Town Invaded by Welfare-Addicted Jews…,” in which the YouTube provocateur toured Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic enclave in upstate New York. The portrayal, which garnered nearly 5 million views, was widely condemned as antisemitic. But Roberts also saw a glimmer of something else in the video. Oliveira had given credit to Kiryas...
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