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I could hear the rousing voices of Friday evening prayer as my host, Sholom, led me down the stairs to the cellar of a century-old tenement building, the home of a Williamsburg minyan, The Shtiebel. Inside, a Satmar hasid took my hand and drew me into dance with a packed throng of some 80 men […]
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‘We are not Americans,’ says Satmar grand rabbi
December 8th, 2020 
Awake Goy The Grand Rabbi of the Satmar Hassidim community of Williamsburg, New York, Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, has said that his hassidim should not consider themselves as American but rather as Jews in exile. The rabbi made his remarks on Sunday night during an annual commemorative event for the rescue of Satmar founder Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum from the Nazis […]
NYC fines Satmar $15,000 for mass wedding
November 25th, 2020 Awake Goy New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that the Satmar Kiryas Joel Hassidic community will be fined $15,000 for the massive, mask-less wedding it staged two weeks ago in Brooklyn in violation of city and state COVID-19 regulations.The wedding, staged on November 13, was that of Joel Teitelbaum, the grandson of Grand Rabbi […]
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox were part of society. Then the Satmar rabbi showed up
November 6th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Kiryas Joel Satmar rabbi to skip Rosh Hashanah in Brooklyn because of rising COVID cases in his town
September 17th, 2020 Awake Goy (JTA) – Among the countless traditions upended by the coronavirus pandemic: the annual Rosh Hashanah trek to Brooklyn by the top Satmar rabbi in Kiryas Joel, the upstate New York Orthodox enclave. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum will remain in Kiryas Joel for Rosh Hashanah because of new cases of COVID-19 in his upstate town, according to […]
