Satmar
UTJ spiritual leader meets with anti-Zionist Satmar millionaire over haredi IDF draft - report
In footage released by Channel 13, another participant in the meeting, Emet LeYaakov chairman Israel Gafner, can be heard comparing Israel to North Korea.
Satmar Ahronim rift: Leaders endorse Cuomo after another backs Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani is not antisemitic, Satmar's Brooklyn leadership says
Thousands of haredi ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Israeli military draft in New York City
Grapevine November 10, 2021: Americans of the Mosaic persuasion
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture in gentrified Brooklyn
There’s a variety of reasons why they end up becoming distanced, and they see it as a way of protecting themselves and their community from negative influences.
Thousands attend Hasidic wedding in Brooklyn, many from Europe and Israel
The wedding is the latest example of the lack of compliance in Hasidic communities with protocols meant to stop the spread of the coronavirus
Rabbi Teitelbaum, Satmar Hasidic leader, tests positive for COVID-19
The Satmar community has been implicated in a number of large gatherings over the last several months, in defiance of state and city guidelines.
Letters to the Editor December 9, 2020: Samaria semantics
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
‘We are not Americans,’ says Satmar grand rabbi
Despite these comments, Satmar hassidim, including the grand rabbi himself, were overtly political during the recent presidential election.
NY Hasidic Jews continue to hold large weddings despite COVID rules
Members of the Hasidic community say the weddings aren’t likely to stop, in part because cases are not translating into the large number of hospitalizations and deaths seen in the spring.
NYC fines Satmar $15,000 for mass wedding
New Satmar wedding takes place in upstate Satmar town of Kiryas Yoel Monday night
Satmar wedding ‘disrespectful, deceitful, illegal,’ says NY Gov. Cuomo
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York City should do ‘robust investigation’ of incident and ‘bring the full consequence of legal action to bear.’
Secret Satmar wedding bypasses COVID restrictions in NYC - watch
According to video obtained, there were thousands of men seated within the bleachers of the 7,000 person capacity synagogue, singing and dancing into the night.
