This is the Forward’s coverage of Satmar, a Hasidic sect in New York City.
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Life Judge Ruchie Freier Is A Hasidic Role Model. I Wish I Had Her Opportunities.
If someone knew about the Hasidic community only by learning about it through recent stories in the mainstream press, I would not blame that person for coming away with confusing and contradictory perceptions. This season we saw the release of the Netflix documentary “One of Us,” in which the three protagonists describe a Hasidism of…
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Fast Forward Why Are Satmars Calling New Hasidic Town ‘Palm Tree’?
Residents of the New York town of Monroe voted this week to carve out a portion of their town to create a brand new one with an unusual name: Palm Tree. So why will a village 50 miles north of New York City bear the name of a tropical tree that is particularly ill-suited to…
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Life What Makes The Hasidic Community Choose Tribe Over Offspring?
About 10 years ago, right around the time the tectonic plates beneath my structured world began to shift, eventually destroying my entire existence as I knew it, there was a campaign in my hometown of Kiryas Joel and beyond to “save the neshama of a young girl.” The young girl, a toddler at the time,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Community Dying In Home Of Satmar Hasidic Dynasty
SATU MARE, Romania (JTA) — The small congregation in this northern city consists of only 110 members. Yet the Satu Mare Jewish community owns an impressive 129 cemeteries and four synagogues. Among the heritage sites in its care is the Decebal Street Synagogue, an ornate behemoth of a building erected in 1892. It was designed…
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Life This Hasidic Picture Book Teaches Children About Sexual Abuse
If you walk into Monsey’s Evergreen kosher supermarket, somewhere among the extensive schnitzel varieties and Shabbos candy treats, you’ll see a single children’s book for sale. Zai Gezunt! is the Yiddish translation of Artscroll’s Let’s Stay Safe, written by Bracha Goetz and illustrated by Tova Leff, a picture book that talks about children’s safety of…
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News Housing War Pits Ultra-Orthodox Against Latinos In ‘Last Corner’ Of Booming Brooklyn
In the all-purpose room of the Swinging Sixties Senior Center, in Williamsburg, members of Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 met in mid-June to begin deciding the fate of two empty lots. Would the board vote to rezone the lots so that they could become the site of a massive, high-end housing development, or would the lots…
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Fast Forward Kiryas Joel Satmar Boycott Brooklyn Anti-Israel Rally
Nearly 20,000 members of the Satmar Hasidic group packed an anti-Zionist rally at the Brooklyn Nets’ home arena last night — even though half of the sect boycotted the event. The rally against Israel’s efforts to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews was organized by followers of Grand Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, the Satmar leader in Williamsburg, Brooklyn….
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Fast Forward Satmar Plan Anti-Zionist Rally At Brooklyn’s Barclays Center
The Satmar Hasidic group is planning an anti-Zionist rally on Sunday at the Barclays Center, the massive arena in the heart of Brooklyn that’s home to the Brooklyn Nets. The rally, organized by a Satmar-dominated rabbinical group called the Central Rabbinical Congress, will protest an Israeli law, passed in 2014, that limits exemptions from military…
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