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 === Israel and occupied territory ===
-Satmar maintains communities in [[Jerusalem]] (including Shikun Satmar between Ezrat Torah and Tel Arza) and [[Bnei Brak]], with smaller groups in [[Elad]] and [[Beit Shemesh]]. Factional geography in Israel is often described as Zalman-leaning in Jerusalem and Aaron-leaning in Bnei Brak, each on the order of hundreds of families rather than tens of thousands.
+== Israel, the Green Line and occupied territory ==
-[[Joel Teitelbaum]] headed the [[Edah HaChareidis]], the anti-Zionist communal and kashrut body in Jerusalem that also includes [[Dushinsky]], [[Toldos Aharon]], [[Toldos Avraham Yitzchak]], Spinka and some Breslov and Perushim circles. [[Keren Hatzolah]] raises diaspora money for yeshivas and poor families in the land of Israel who refuse Israeli state budgets. That is material presence inside the Green Line and in Haredi neighbourhoods of municipal Jerusalem, including occupied East Jerusalem frameworks, without Satmar recognition of the state’s legitimacy.
+Satmar maintains communities in [[Jerusalem]] (including [[Shikun Satmar]] between [[Ezrat Torah]] and [[Tel Arza]]) and [[Bnei Brak]], with smaller groups in [[Elad]] and [[Beit Shemesh]]. Factional geography in Israel is often described as Zalman-leaning in Jerusalem and Aaron-leaning in Bnei Brak, each on the order of hundreds of families rather than tens of thousands.
-Satmar does not build named settler towns comparable to [[Beitar Illit]] (Haredi-Zionist / Agudah housing). [[Aaron Teitelbaum]] has blamed Jews “living in the territories” for violence that follows, a line consistent with opposing Religious-Zionist settlement while still funding anti-draft, anti-state Haredi life in the same land.<ref name="YWNTerritories">The Yeshiva World, [https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/244926/satmar-rebbe-of-kiryas-yoel-its-their-fault-for-living-in-the-territories.html Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel: it's their fault for living in the territories] ''The Yeshiva World''.</ref>
+[[Joel Teitelbaum]] headed the [[Edah HaChareidis]], the anti-Zionist communal and kashrut body in Jerusalem that also includes [[Dushinsky]], [[Toldos Aharon]], [[Toldos Avraham Yitzchak]], Spinka and some Breslov and Perushim circles. [[Keren Hatzolah]] raises diaspora money for yeshivas and poor families in the land of Israel who refuse Israeli state budgets. Satmar does not recognise the state. It still funds and houses people who live under it.
 === Elsewhere ===

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 Both reject drafting yeshiva students into the [[IDF]]. Both operate large New York welfare and school systems and both appear in American electoral brokerage. They do not share pulpits, kashrut, schools or marriage markets. Satmar’s denunciations of [[Neturei Karta]] for marching with Israel’s enemies do not create an opening to Chabad; the forbidden act, in Satmar terms, is granting the state religious standing, which Chabad does as a matter of policy.
-== Relations with [[Skver]] and the Williamsburg courts ==
 === [[Skver]] ===
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 In September 2026 both Satmar rebbes and a son of the Skverer Rebbe sat in the same White House meeting with [[Donald Trump]], alongside [[Bobov]] and Monsey [[Vizhnitz]] — cooperation on prisons, housing and the Israeli draft, not a merger of courts.<ref name="JITrump26">Matthew Kassel, [https://jewishinsider.com/2026/09/trump-white-house-meeting-hasidic-rabbis-housing-taxes-prison-reform/ Trump and Hasidic rabbis discuss housing, prison reform and family tax credits] ''Jewish Insider'', 3 September 2026.</ref>
-=== Williamsburg coalition: UJO, not one rebbe ===
+=== UJO: a civic machine, not one rebbe ===
-South Williamsburg is Satmar-majority but not Satmar-only. Smaller Hungarian and Galician courts keep their own shtieblach and schools while using a shared civic machine, the [[United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn]] ([[UJO]]), founded 1966. [[Moshe Dovid Niederman]] (also styled David Niederman) has been executive director since 1989. He previously ran [[Rav Tov]], the Satmar refugee organisation set up at [[Joel Teitelbaum]]’s instruction in 1973. UJO presents itself as a coalition of more than 200 groups serving on the order of 70,000 people; 2024 figures cite 93,131 walk-in clients. Services run in Yiddish and English: housing, Medicaid, food stamps, immigration, seniors, a kosher pantry opened 2026 at 365 Flushing Avenue with [[Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty]]. City capital funds of $5.5 million were secured in 2025 for a headquarters at 498 Bedford Avenue.<ref name="UJOExec">United Jewish Organizations, [https://www.unitedjewish.org/executive-director.html Executive Director].</ref><ref name="UJOHome">United Jewish Organizations, [https://www.unitedjewish.org/ home page], accessed 2026.</ref>
+South Williamsburg is Satmar-majority but not Satmar-only. Smaller Hungarian and Galician courts keep their own shtieblach and schools while using a shared civic machine. UJO was founded in 1966. Niederman has been executive director since 1989. He previously ran [[Rav Tov]], the Satmar refugee organisation set up at [[Joel Teitelbaum]]’s instruction in 1973. UJO presents itself as a coalition of more than 200 groups serving on the order of 70,000 people; 2024 figures cite 93,131 walk-in clients. Services run in Yiddish and English: housing, Medicaid, food stamps, immigration, seniors, a kosher pantry opened 2026 at 365 Flushing Avenue with [[Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty]]. City capital funds of $5.5 million were secured in 2025 for a headquarters at 498 Bedford Avenue.<ref name="UJOExec">United Jewish Organizations, [https://www.unitedjewish.org/executive-director.html Executive Director].</ref><ref name="UJOHome">United Jewish Organizations, [https://www.unitedjewish.org/ home page], accessed 2026.</ref>
-The courts that sit in that machine, and that joined Williamsburg Satmar in the June 2025 [[Andrew Cuomo]] mayoral endorsement, are political partners, not theological copies:
+The courts in that machine, and on the 2025 Cuomo list, are political partners, not theological copies:
 * '''[[Pupa]]''' — Hungarian court; historic Williamsburg neighbour; co-founder circle of the [[Central Rabbinical Congress]] with Satmar.
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 * '''[[Nitra]]''' — Hungarian yeshiva court; Williamsburg and Mount Kisco; CRC milieu.
 * '''[[Krasna]]''' — small Hungarian court in the same street grid.
-* '''[[Belz]]''' — present in the 2025 endorsement list as a Williamsburg partner. This is neighbourhood politics. In 1979 Satmar students wrecked a Belz synagogue in Williamsburg in a fight over religious courts in Israel; the two courts have long disagreed about Agudah participation and Israeli institutions even when they share Bedford Avenue.
+* '''[[Tzelim]]''' (Tzelem) — Williamsburg partner named on the Cuomo slate.
-Niederman is the translator of that patchwork into City Hall and Albany language: antisemitism, childcare, yeshiva regulation, public housing. Cuomo in 2025 called him a friend who built UJO from a three-person office and who had “put his life on the line to save Jews in the Middle East” (the Rav Tov years). The coalition can deliver a claimed high-turnout Williamsburg Orthodox vote on the order of 10,000. It does not require Pupa, Vien or Klausenburg to accept ''Vayoel Moshe'', nor Skver to accept Satmar succession claims. Alignment is over schools, welfare and street control.
+Niederman is the translator of that patchwork into City Hall and Albany language. The coalition can deliver a claimed high-turnout Williamsburg Orthodox vote on the order of 10,000. It does not require Pupa, Vien or Klausenburg to accept ''Vayoel Moshe'', nor Skver to accept Satmar succession claims.
 == Institutions ==

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	Niederman is the translator of that patchwork into City Hall and Albany language: antisemitism, childcare, yeshiva regulation, public housing. Cuomo in 2025 called him a friend who built UJO from a three-person office and who had “put his life on the line to save Jews in the Middle East” (the Rav Tov years). The coalition can deliver a claimed high-turnout Williamsburg Orthodox vote on the order of 10,000. It does not require Pupa, Vien or Klausenburg to accept ''Vayoel Moshe'', nor Skver to accept Satmar succession claims. Alignment is over schools, welfare and street control.		Niederman is the translator of that patchwork into City Hall and Albany language: antisemitism, childcare, yeshiva regulation, public housing. Cuomo in 2025 called him a friend who built UJO from a three-person office and who had “put his life on the line to save Jews in the Middle East” (the Rav Tov years). The coalition can deliver a claimed high-turnout Williamsburg Orthodox vote on the order of 10,000. It does not require Pupa, Vien or Klausenburg to accept ''Vayoel Moshe'', nor Skver to accept Satmar succession claims. Alignment is over schools, welfare and street control.
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−	~~== Voting bloc ==~~
−
−	Williamsburg Satmar under [[Moshe Dovid Niederman]] and the UJO is routinely described as the city’s largest Orthodox voting bloc. In June 2025 the main Williamsburg court (Zalman) plus Pupa, Viznitz, Vien, Tzelim, Nitra, Krasna, Skver and Klausenburg endorsed [[Andrew Cuomo]] for mayor, after Satmar Ahronim and [[Bobov]] had already done so. Cuomo called Niederman a friend who had “put his life on the line to save Jews in the Middle East” and built UJO from a three-person team.<ref name="Cuomo2025">Andrew Cuomo campaign, [https://www.andrewcuomo.com/press/cuomo-receives-major-endorsement-satmar-williamsburg-led-grand-rebbe-zalmen-teitelbaum-one Cuomo receives major endorsement from Satmar Williamsburg] June 2025.</ref> Endorsements track yeshiva regulation, welfare and street safety more than Israel policy.

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	Both reject drafting yeshiva students into the [[IDF]]. Both operate large New York welfare and school systems and both appear in American electoral brokerage. They do not share pulpits, kashrut, schools or marriage markets. Satmar’s denunciations of [[Neturei Karta]] for marching with Israel’s enemies do not create an opening to Chabad; the forbidden act, in Satmar terms, is granting the state religious standing, which Chabad does as a matter of policy.		Both reject drafting yeshiva students into the [[IDF]]. Both operate large New York welfare and school systems and both appear in American electoral brokerage. They do not share pulpits, kashrut, schools or marriage markets. Satmar’s denunciations of [[Neturei Karta]] for marching with Israel’s enemies do not create an opening to Chabad; the forbidden act, in Satmar terms, is granting the state religious standing, which Chabad does as a matter of policy.
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		+	== Relations with [[Skver]] and the Williamsburg courts ==
		+
		+	=== [[Skver]] ===
		+
		+	[[Skver]] (Skverer Hasidim), based in the all-Hasidic village of [[New Square]] in Rockland County, is the nearest American peer to Satmar in Hungarian-style stringency, Yiddish everyday life and a purpose-built upstate enclave. It is smaller: New Square’s bloc is routinely put at about 3,000 votes, against tens of thousands for the two Satmar factions combined.<ref name="JISkver">Matthew Kassel, [https://jewishinsider.com/2024/10/the-high-stakes-battle-for-the-skver-vote/ The high-stakes battle for the Skver vote] ''Jewish Insider'', 29 October 2024.</ref> The rebbe is [[David Twersky]]; his endorsements in Hudson Valley congressional races are treated as swing assets.
		+
		+	The two courts are not a single theology. Skver is less identified with ''Vayoel Moshe'' anti-Zionism as a public programme. What they share is resistance to New York Regents and yeshiva secular-curriculum rules, and a preference for incumbents who already deliver housing, welfare and school quiet.
		+
		+	That produced the 2022 outlier. After [[Bobov]] and much of Borough Park moved to Republican [[Lee Zeldin]] over the Board of Regents’ yeshiva vote, [[Aaron Teitelbaum]]’s Kiryas Joel Satmar and New Square Skver stayed with Democrat [[Kathy Hochul]]. Skver also backed Democrat [[Sean Patrick Maloney]] in NY-17. New Square mayor [[Izzy Spitzer]] defended the line as keeping a partner already in Albany; Satmar activists in the upstate enclave were described as aligned with that choice.<ref name="FwdHochul">Jacob Kornbluh, [https://forward.com/news/523456/kathy-hochul-lee-zeldin-yeshiva-education-orthodox/ In close race, Hochul walks a fine line on yeshiva education] ''The Forward'', 2 November 2022.</ref><ref name="VINSquare">VINnews, [https://vinnews.com/2022/11/15/after-stunning-victory-republicans-work-to-build-relationship-with-new-squares-leaders/ After stunning victory, Republicans work to build relationship with New Square’s leaders], 15 November 2022.</ref> Williamsburg Zalis Satmar did not issue a gubernatorial endorsement that cycle. A Skver presence in Borough Park was separately claimed for Zeldin, showing that “Skver” on a Brooklyn street is not always the New Square rebbe’s bloc.
		+
		+	In September 2026 both Satmar rebbes and a son of the Skverer Rebbe sat in the same White House meeting with [[Donald Trump]], alongside [[Bobov]] and Monsey [[Vizhnitz]] — cooperation on prisons, housing and the Israeli draft, not a merger of courts.<ref name="JITrump26">Matthew Kassel, [https://jewishinsider.com/2026/09/trump-white-house-meeting-hasidic-rabbis-housing-taxes-prison-reform/ Trump and Hasidic rabbis discuss housing, prison reform and family tax credits] ''Jewish Insider'', 3 September 2026.</ref>
		+
		+	=== Williamsburg coalition: UJO, not one rebbe ===
		+
		+	South Williamsburg is Satmar-majority but not Satmar-only. Smaller Hungarian and Galician courts keep their own shtieblach and schools while using a shared civic machine, the [[United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn]] ([[UJO]]), founded 1966. [[Moshe Dovid Niederman]] (also styled David Niederman) has been executive director since 1989. He previously ran [[Rav Tov]], the Satmar refugee organisation set up at [[Joel Teitelbaum]]’s instruction in 1973. UJO presents itself as a coalition of more than 200 groups serving on the order of 70,000 people; 2024 figures cite 93,131 walk-in clients. Services run in Yiddish and English: housing, Medicaid, food stamps, immigration, seniors, a kosher pantry opened 2026 at 365 Flushing Avenue with [[Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty]]. City capital funds of $5.5 million were secured in 2025 for a headquarters at 498 Bedford Avenue.<ref name="UJOExec">United Jewish Organizations, [https://www.unitedjewish.org/executive-director.html Executive Director].</ref><ref name="UJOHome">United Jewish Organizations, [https://www.unitedjewish.org/ home page], accessed 2026.</ref>
		+
		+	The courts that sit in that machine, and that joined Williamsburg Satmar in the June 2025 [[Andrew Cuomo]] mayoral endorsement, are political partners, not theological copies:
		+
		+	* '''[[Pupa]]''' — Hungarian court; historic Williamsburg neighbour; co-founder circle of the [[Central Rabbinical Congress]] with Satmar.
		+	* '''[[Vizhnitz]]''' — Galician/Bukovinian; Williamsburg kloiz plus a separate Monsey rebbe who joined the 2026 White House meeting.
		+	* '''[[Vien]]''' ([[Kehal Adas Yereim Vien]]) — Oberlander / Viennese origin under [[Yonasan Steif]]; another CRC founding circle; most members now Hasidic in dress and custom because of Satmar proximity, not because Vien was founded as a Satmar clone.
		+	* '''[[Klausenburg]]''' (Sanz-Klausenburg) — Williamsburg hall; separate Israeli and Netanya institutions; non-Satmar Sanz theology.
		+	* '''[[Nitra]]''' — Hungarian yeshiva court; Williamsburg and Mount Kisco; CRC milieu.
		+	* '''[[Krasna]]''' — small Hungarian court in the same street grid.
		+	* '''[[Belz]]''' — present in the 2025 endorsement list as a Williamsburg partner. This is neighbourhood politics. In 1979 Satmar students wrecked a Belz synagogue in Williamsburg in a fight over religious courts in Israel; the two courts have long disagreed about Agudah participation and Israeli institutions even when they share Bedford Avenue.
		+
		+	Niederman is the translator of that patchwork into City Hall and Albany language: antisemitism, childcare, yeshiva regulation, public housing. Cuomo in 2025 called him a friend who built UJO from a three-person office and who had “put his life on the line to save Jews in the Middle East” (the Rav Tov years). The coalition can deliver a claimed high-turnout Williamsburg Orthodox vote on the order of 10,000. It does not require Pupa, Vien or Klausenburg to accept ''Vayoel Moshe'', nor Skver to accept Satmar succession claims. Alignment is over schools, welfare and street control.

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 === Shared ancestry, opposite conclusions ===
-Pre-state Lubavitch rebbes [[Sholom Dovber Schneersohn]] and [[Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn]] opposed secular Zionism on messianic grounds similar to [[Hayyim Elazar Shapira of Munkacz]], the Hungarian source for Teitelbaum.<ref name="MagidChabad">Shaul Magid, [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/satmar-anti-zionist The Satmar Are Anti-Zionist. Should We Care?] ''Tablet'', 21 May 2020.</ref> After 1948 and especially after 1967 the paths diverged. Satmar froze anti-Zionism as a total system in ''[[Vayoel Moshe]]'' and ''[[Al Ha-Geulah ve-Al Ha-Temurah]]''. Schneerson treated Israeli military victories, including Entebbe and the capture of the Western Wall, as events with religious meaning and encouraged prayer at the Wall. Teitelbaum called that reading a false redemption, condemned Schneerson by name in the
+Pre-state Lubavitch rebbes [[Sholom Dovber Schneersohn]] and [[Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn]] opposed secular Zionism on messianic grounds similar to [[Hayyim Elazar Shapira of Munkacz]], the Hungarian source for Teitelbaum.<ref name="MagidChabad">Shaul Magid, [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/satmar-anti-zionist The Satmar Are Anti-Zionist. Should We Care?] ''Tablet'', 21 May 2020.</ref> After 1948 and especially after 1967 the paths diverged. Satmar froze anti-Zionism as a total system in ''[[Vayoel Moshe]]'' and ''[[Al Ha-Geulah ve-Al Ha-Temurah]]''. Schneerson treated Israeli military victories, including Entebbe and the capture of the Western Wall, as events with religious meaning and encouraged prayer at the Wall. Teitelbaum called that reading a false redemption, condemned Schneerson by name in the 1967–68 tract, and forbade prayer at sites taken in the war because it would confer legitimacy on the state.<ref name="Mayse">Ariel Evan Mayse, “The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism,” in the Brill collection on American Hasidism, 2020.</ref>
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 * '''[[Belz]], [[Vizhnitz]], Pupa, Vien, Klausenburg, Nitra, Krasna''' — Williamsburg coalition partners under [[United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg]] / [[Moshe Dovid Niederman]]; not theological clones.
 * '''[[Edah HaChareidis]] partners''' ([[Toldos Aharon]], Dushinsky, etc.) — Jerusalem anti-Zionist umbrella once headed by Satmar rebbes.
 == Voting bloc ==

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	Stamford Hill remains the British centre (Beis Rochel / Beis Ruchel girls’ schools in Hackney and Salford). From 2016 a mixed Haredi colony on [[Canvey Island]], Essex, was planted by young Satmar-affiliated householders around [[Joel Friedman]] of [[Interlink]] / the [[Pinter Trust]], without a resident rebbe; the group is loosely tied to [[Aaron Teitelbaum]]. Satmar is the largest Hasidic presence there but the settlement is not an exclusive Satmar court town.<ref name="Canvey">K. Revue, [https://k-larevue.com/en/postcard-from-canvey-island/ Postcard from Canvey Island] accessed September 2026.</ref> Manchester / Salford holds Beis Rochel / Beis Ruchel schools.		Stamford Hill remains the British centre (Beis Rochel / Beis Ruchel girls’ schools in Hackney and Salford). From 2016 a mixed Haredi colony on [[Canvey Island]], Essex, was planted by young Satmar-affiliated householders around [[Joel Friedman]] of [[Interlink]] / the [[Pinter Trust]], without a resident rebbe; the group is loosely tied to [[Aaron Teitelbaum]]. Satmar is the largest Hasidic presence there but the settlement is not an exclusive Satmar court town.<ref name="Canvey">K. Revue, [https://k-larevue.com/en/postcard-from-canvey-island/ Postcard from Canvey Island] accessed September 2026.</ref> Manchester / Salford holds Beis Rochel / Beis Ruchel schools.
		+	== Institutions in the United Kingdom ==
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		+	Satmar institutions in Britain cluster in Stamford Hill / Hackney, Salford / Manchester, and the mixed Haredi colony on [[Canvey Island]] (from 2016). Girls’ schools are generally named [[Beis Rochel]] / [[Beis Ruchel]]; boys’ schools [[Talmud Torah Yetev Lev]] or [[Torah VeYirah]]. Congregations use [[Kehal Yetev Lev]].
		+
		+	==== Schools ====
		+
		+	{\| class="wikitable sortable"
		+	\|+ Independent schools identified with Satmar
		+	! Name !! Local authority !! Gender / ages !! Charity / proprietor !! Notes
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Beis Rochel d'Satmar Girls' School]] \|\| Hackney \|\| Girls, 2–19 \|\| [[The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust]] (281371), 51–57 Amhurst Park, London N16 5DL \|\| Majority Satmar; also other Hasidic girls. Trustees include [[Solomon Berkowitz]].<ref name="BRTrust">Charity Commission accounts, [[The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust]] 281371, year ended 31 December 2024.</ref>
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Beis Rochel D'Satmar School]] \|\| Hackney \|\| Boys, 2–11 \|\| [[Talmud Torah Torah Veyirah D'Satmar London Limited]] (1136378) \|\| 180 Bethune Road, London N16 5DS; URN 147296; head [[Emmanuel Patcas]].<ref name="PBBeisBoys">Powerbase / GIAS listing for Beis Rochel D'Satmar School, Bethune Road.</ref>
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Talmud Torah Yetev Lev]] \|\| Hackney \|\| Boys, 7–11 \|\| Satmar community school \|\| 438 pupils; DfE restriction on new admissions lifted March 2025 after standards improved.<ref name="JCYL">The Jewish Chronicle, [https://thejc.com/family-and-education/dfe-lifts-sanctions-against-chasidic-school-in-stamford-hill-k2g7s2bl DfE lifts sanctions against Chasidic school in Stamford Hill], 21 March 2025.</ref>
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Beis Ruchel D'Satmar]] / [[Beis Ruchel D'Satmar London]] \|\| Hackney \|\| Girls, 2–11 \|\| [[Beis Ruchel D'Satmar (London) Limited]] (1125988; co. 06660324) \|\| 117 Stamford Hill, N16 5RS; URN 137505; proprietor [[Abraham Klein]]; c. 1,108 pupils; income £3.72m (year to 30 August 2025). Objects include poverty relief “throughout the world.”<ref name="GiGRuchel">Giving is Great / Charity Commission, [https://givingisgreat.org/database/charity-factsheet/?regNo=1125988 Beis Ruchel D'Satmar (London) Limited] 1125988.</ref>
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Beis Rochel Mcr Girls' School]] \|\| Salford \|\| Girls \|\| Satmar-linked \|\| Ofsted monitoring criticised RSE / protected-characteristics teaching; Ofsted later amended LGBT wording.<ref name="JCMCR">The Jewish Chronicle, [https://www.thejc.com/family-and-education/ofsted-admits-error-in-criticising-charedi-school-for-not-teaching-about-same-sex-parents-cqt2yn8v Ofsted admits error], 17 May 2026.</ref>
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Beis Ruchel Girls School]] (primary and secondary) \|\| Salford / Manchester \|\| Girls \|\| [[Beis Ruchel School Ltd]] (co. 03561612; charity 1074439) \|\| Trustees include [[Paul Rothschild]], also of [[Cong Yetev Lev D'Satmar M/C Ltd]].
		+	\|}
		+
		+	==== Congregations and halls ====
		+
		+	{\| class="wikitable sortable"
		+	\|+ Synagogues and batei midrash
		+	! Name !! Address !! Notes
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Beth Hamedrash Kehal Yetev Lev]] \|\| 86 Cazenove Road, London N16 6AB \|\| Core Satmar kehilla from c. 1962; [[Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations]].<ref name="JCRSatmar">JCR-UK, [https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/london/stamford_shteibls/satmar.htm Satmar Beth Hamedrash Kehal Yetev Lev].</ref>
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		+	\| [[Beis Hamedrash Kehal Yetev Lev]] \|\| 42 Craven Walk, London N16 6BU \|\| From c. 2003.<ref name="JCRSatmar" />
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		+	\| [[Beis Hamedrash D'Chasidei Satmar]] \|\| 57 Bethune Road, London N16 5EE \|\| From c. 2010.<ref name="JCRSatmar" />
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		+	\| [[Beis Hamedrash Tehillois Yoel]] \|\| 148 Upper Clapton Road, London E5 9BA \|\| From c. 2011.<ref name="JCRSatmar" />
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		+	\| [[Beth Hamedrash Kehal Yetev Lev]] (listed historic) \|\| 26 Clapton Common, London E5 \|\| From c. 1993; JCR-UK notes it may no longer sit in the organised structure.<ref name="JCRSatmar" />
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		+	\| [[Beis Hamedrash V'Yoel Moshe]] (listed historic) \|\| 67 Heathland Road, London N16 6PQ \|\| From c. 2006.<ref name="JCRSatmar" />
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		+	\| [[Beth Hamedrash Satmar Veyoel Moshe]] \|\| 37 Northumberland Road, Salford \|\| Maintained by [[KH D'Satmar Ltd]] (1160643); office 315–317 Great Clowes Street, Salford M7 2FZ.<ref name="KHSatmar">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5051699/full-print KH D'SATMAR LTD] 1160643.</ref>
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		+	\| [[Cong Yetev Lev D'Satmar M/C Ltd]] \|\| Manchester / Salford \|\| Charity 1115899; grants and religious services; income £238,120 (year to 31 August 2024).<ref name="CongMC">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4026026/full-print CONG YETEV LEV D'SATMAR M/C LTD] 1115899.</ref>
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		+	\| Canvey Island Jewish Centre \|\| former Castle View School, Meppel Avenue, Canvey Island SS8 9RZ \|\| Bought 24 March 2016; shul, simchah hall, grocery, boys’ and girls’ schools, yeshiva ketanah; Satmar-majority mixed Hasidic kehillah, loosely [[Aaron Teitelbaum]].<ref name="JCRCanvey">JCR-UK, [https://jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/canvey/index.htm Canvey Island Jewish Community].</ref>
		+	\|}
		+
		+	==== Charities and related companies ====
		+
		+	{\| class="wikitable sortable"
		+	\|+ Registered vehicles
		+	! Name !! Number !! Role
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust]] \|\| 281371 \|\| Owns [[Beis Rochel d'Satmar Girls' School]]; donated to [[Talmud Torah Torah Veyirah D'Satmar London Limited]]; related-party payments to [[Satmar Meats & Poultry Ltd]].<ref name="BRTrust" />
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Talmud Torah Torah Veyirah D'Satmar London Limited]] \|\| 1136378 \|\| Boys’ primary proprietor; trustees [[Solomon Berkowitz]], [[Maurice Freund]], [[Aaron Langberg]].
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Beis Ruchel D'Satmar (London) Limited]] \|\| 1125988 \|\| Girls’ school; trustees [[Abraham Klein]], [[Jacob Kernkraut]], [[Jacob Herzka]].
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Beis Ruchel School Ltd]] \|\| 1074439 \|\| Manchester / Salford girls’ schools.
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[KH D'Satmar Ltd]] \|\| 1160643 \|\| Salford synagogue, out-of-school club, grants.
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Cong Yetev Lev D'Satmar M/C Ltd]] \|\| 1115899 \|\| Manchester congregation.
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Satmar Torah Trust Ltd]] \|\| — \|\| Linked trusteeship with Cong Yetev Lev M/C.
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Kollel Yetev Lev Ltd]] \|\| — \|\| Linked trusteeship ([[Benjamin Ollech]]).
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Congregation Yetev Lev Dsatmar Antwerp Limited]] \|\| UK company \|\| Antwerp kehilla vehicle; trustee overlap with London Torah Veyirah ([[Maurice Freund]]).
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Yeitev Lev Eretz Israel Ltd]] \|\| — \|\| Israel-facing vehicle; trustee overlap with Bais Rochel ([[Solomon Berkowitz]]).
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Just Kidding]] \|\| 1186598 \|\| Childcare; same circle as Bais Rochel / Torah Veyirah.
		+	\|}
		+
		+	Stamford Hill Satmar also ran a Rav Tuv-style programme that brought an estimated twenty [[Yemenite Jews\|Yemenite]] families to London (1990s–c. 2010) rather than to Israel.<ref name="JCYemen">Ben Weich, [https://www.thejc.com/news/satmar-chasidim-was-the-project-to-settle-yemenite-families-in-stamford-hill-a-failed-experiment-li0jrkbp Satmar Chasidim and Yemenite families in Stamford Hill] ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 3 October 2019.</ref>

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 The sect operates numerous community foundations. [[Bikur Cholim]] ("Visiting the sick"), established in 1957 by Teitelbaum's wife [[Alte Feiga]], concerns itself with helping hospitalized Jews, regardless of affiliation. ''Rav Tuv'', founded in the 1950s to help Jews in the Soviet Union, aids Jewish refugees. Today, the organization mostly helps [[Persian Jews|Jews from Iran]] and [[Yemenite Jews|Yemen]]. [[Keren Hatzolah]] is a charitable fund to support [[yeshiva]]s and the poor in Israel, providing for those who shun government benefits.
-Teitelbaum founded a network of large educational institutions, both [[Mesivta|yeshivas]] and girls' schools. If its schools in New York were a public school system, it would be the fourth-largest system in the state, after those of New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/nyregion/25teitelbaum.html,|title=''New York Times'', April 25, 2006|website=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref> In most places, the girls' schools are called ''Beis Rochel'', and the yeshivas ''Torah VeYirah''. In 1953, Teitelbaum founded the [[Central Rabbinical Congress of the United States and Canada]], which provides various services, including ''[[kashrut]]'' supervision.
+Teitelbaum founded a network of large educational institutions, both [[Mesivta|yeshivas]] and girls' schools. If its schools in New York were a public school system, it would be the fourth-largest system in the state, after those of New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/nyregion/25teitelbaum.html|title=''New York Times'', April 25, 2006|website=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref> In most places, the girls' schools are called ''Beis Rochel'', and the yeshivas ''Torah VeYirah''. In 1953, Teitelbaum founded the [[Central Rabbinical Congress of the United States and Canada]], which provides various services, including ''[[kashrut]]'' supervision.
 [[Yeshiva gedolah|Senior yeshivas]] include the [[United Talmudical Seminary]] and [[Yeshivas Maharit D'Satmar]]. <ref>[https://yeshivasmaharit.org/ yeshivasmaharit.org]</ref>

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 * [https://newyorkerlife.com/new-york-city-street-photography-satmar-hasidic-jews-of-williamsburg/ Satmar Hasidic Williamsburg], newyorkerlife.com. Accessed December 18, 2022.
 * [http://newyorkmetro.com/news/cityside/16864/index.html Hats On, Gloves Off (05/08/06)] from ''[[New York Magazine]]''. Accessed December 18, 2022.
+*https://www.shtetl.org/article/satmar-grand-rabbi-deceiving-state-lawmakers-on-education-bill
 *https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/21/nyregion/2-hasidic-groups-in-brooklyn-involved-in-complex-conflict.html
 *https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/03/nyregion/guard-set-for-belz-rabbi-as-hasidic-tension-grows.html