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==Orientation to Zionism==
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{{short description|'''Largest Hasidic court; Hungarian-origin anti-Zionist dynasty split between [[Aaron Teitelbaum]] (Kiryas Joel) and [[Zalman Teitelbaum]] (Williamsburg)'''}}
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According to the JC:
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{{Infobox religious group
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| name = Satmar
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| native_name = חסידות סאטמר
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| type = [[Hasidic]] court (Haredi Judaism)
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| main_classification = [[Hasidism]] (Hungarian / Sighet–Satmar line)
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| theology = Anti-Zionist; ''Vayoel Moshe''; three oaths
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| structure = Split since 2006 between two rebbes
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| founder = [[Joel Teitelbaum]] (1887–1979)
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| founded_date = 1905 (Satu Mare); rebuilt in New York after 1946
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| founded_place = Satu Mare (Satmar), then Kingdom of Hungary
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| leader_title = Rebbe (Kiryas Joel / Ahronim)
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| leader_name = [[Aaron Teitelbaum]] (born 1947)
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| leader_title2 = Rebbe (Williamsburg / Zalis)
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| leader_name2 = [[Zalman Teitelbaum]] (born 1951)
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| members = About 26,000 households (c. 2016); largest Hasidic group worldwide
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| area = [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Israel]] / occupied East Jerusalem, [[Belgium]], [[Canada]], [[Argentina]], [[Australia]]
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| language = Yiddish (everyday); Hebrew (liturgical)
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| headquarters = [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn]] and [[Kiryas Joel, New York]]
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:More importantly, however, even within Satmar the idea of actively supporting, in any way whatsoever, organisations that oppose the state of Israel, be they Far Right, Far Left, Islamist or anything else, is considered bizarre and in most cases actually forbidden.
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'''[[Satmar]]''' (Yiddish: סאטמאר) is a [[Hasidic]] court originating in Satu Mare (Satmar) in historic Hungary, rebuilt in New York after the Holocaust by [[Joel Teitelbaum]] (1887–1979). It is the largest Hasidic group in the world. [[Marcin Wodziński]]’s mid-2010s count from internal telephone books put Satmar at about 26,000 households — some 20 per cent of all Hasidim — split after 2006 between two sons of [[Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar)|Moshe Teitelbaum]] (1914–2006): [[Aaron Teitelbaum]] in [[Kiryas Joel]] and [[Zalman Teitelbaum]] in Williamsburg.<ref name="Magid">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>
  
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:The founder of Satmar, Rabbi [[Yoel Teitelbaum]], was absolutely clear that the PLO and other bodies were antisemitic murderers. He would never in a million years have supported a politician who was present at a wreath laying ceremony for the Munich Olympics terrorists.<ref>https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/time-to-stop-the-shraga-stern-farce-1.494581</ref>
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Satmar is the principal organised bearer of Hungarian Haredi anti-Zionism in the United States. It rejects [[Agudat Yisrael]] participation in Israeli coalitions, funds institutions that refuse state money through vehicles such as [[Keren Hatzolah]], and heads the [[Central Rabbinical Congress]] in North America while remaining tied to the [[Edah HaChareidis]] in Jerusalem. It simultaneously condemns [[Neturei Karta]] when the latter joins Iranian or Palestinian platforms, and it operates as a New York voting machine that endorses secular Democrats and Republicans. That mix — theological rejection of the state, material support for Haredim who live in it, and American political brokerage — is the court’s public profile.<ref name="JCStern">The Jewish Chronicle, [https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/time-to-stop-the-shraga-stern-farce-1.494581 Time to stop the Shraga Stern farce] ''The Jewish Chronicle''.</ref><ref name="TOIAaron">Times of Israel, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-satmar-hasidic-sect-castigates-followers-for-admiring-israel-idf/ Head of Satmar Hasidic sect castigates followers for admiring Israel, IDF] ''Times of Israel''.</ref>
  
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[[Shaul Magid]] writes:
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== History ==
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:While many people know of the general position of Teitelbaum and his Satmar community toward Zionism, few have actually read his works and understood the arguments from within the dense and complex context in which they were written. This is unfortunate, because his two anti-Zionist works, ''[[Vayoel Moshe]]'', published in 1959, and ''[[Al Ha-Geulah ve ‘al ha-Temura]]'' (On Redemption and Exchange, taken from Ruth 4:7), a response to the Six-Day War published in 1967, offer detailed and intricate arguments that, contrary to what many believe, Zionism poses an imminent danger to the Jewish people and a deflection, rather than a procurement, of the impending messianic era. <ref name="Shaul">Shaul Magid [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/satmar-anti-zionist The Satmar Are Anti-Zionist. Should We Care?] Few Jews today agree with the late Satmar rebbe’s attacks on Zionism. All the more reason to read them. Tablet. May 21, 2020</ref>
 
  
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:Significantly, in the hundreds of dense pages of Teitelbaum’s works, he rarely mentions Zionism or Zionists outright, although he alludes to them often, usually with terms such as “minim” or “apikorsim” (heretics) or “horsei dat” (destroyers of religion). These terms are not particular to him but were commonly used by ultra-Orthodox thinkers in reference to Zionists. Teitelbaum almost never discusses Zionist thinkers, although in his essay on the Hebrew language, “Essay of Lashon ha-Kodesh” he often refers to Zionist educational initiatives and debates regarding the secularization and profanation of the Hebrew language. I have found only one reference in a halachic responsa where he mentions [[Abraham Isaac Kook]], the first chief rabbi of Mandate Palestine and architect of contemporary religious Zionism, and only in passing. Teitelbaum is not interested in direct polemics but rather creating a primary Torah source warning against the heresy of Zionism. His two major works are therefore replete with long digressions on talmudic dicta and their commentaries. They are clearly not meant for secular Jews, certainly not secular Zionists. In fact, one not conversant in the language of the beit midrash (“study house”) would have a difficult time unpacking his midrashic and halachic arguments.
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[[Joel Teitelbaum]], from the Sighet / [[Siget (Hasidic dynasty)|Sighet]] Teitelbaum line, became rabbi of Satu Mare and built a court marked by Hungarian Haredi stringency and hostility to Zionism and to [[Agudat Yisrael]]’s political bargains. He survived Bergen-Belsen on the Kastner train, reached Palestine, then settled in Williamsburg in 1946 and reconstituted the court among Hungarian survivors.<ref name="Magid" />
  
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:These works are directed to his ultra-Orthodox community, who he believed were being, or could be, seduced by the Zionist narrative. This is particularly true with ‘Al Ha-Geulah, written when Teitelbaum saw the Six-Day War interpreted as a miraculous victory for Zionism. He often noted, half-jokingly, that all these secular Jews who didn’t believe in miracles suddenly started talking about miracles when it came to the Six-Day War. But more significantly, these works also represent a Jewish political theology, drawing on thousands of traditional sources, deployed to caution against the dangers of succumbing to the contemporary Zionist heresy.<ref name="Shaul"/>
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He founded ''[[Der Yid]]'', the girls’ schools called Beis Rochel and the boys’ yeshivas Torah VeYirah, the [[United Talmudical Seminary]], [[Bikur Cholim]] (1957, organised by [[Alte Feiga Teitelbaum]]), refugee aid under Rav Tuv, and in 1953 the [[Central Rabbinical Congress of the United States and Canada]]. He served as chief rabbi of the [[Edah HaChareidis]] from 1953 until his death while living in New York. In 1959 he published ''Vayoel Moshe''; after the 1967 war he published ''Al Ha-Geulah ve-Al Ha-Temurah'' against treating the conquest of Jerusalem and the West Bank as messianic miracle.<ref name="Magid" />
  
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:In addition, Teitelbaum believed, like many religious Zionists, especially after the Holocaust, that we stand on the cusp of messianic redemption. We often misunderstand Teitelbaum’s anti-Zionism as diametrically opposed to the Zionism of [[Abraham Isaac Kook]]. In truth, Kook and Teitelbaum disagree less than we think. From deep within the canonical tradition, both had a similar task: to make sense of the secular nature of Zionism and how that could square with traditional understandings of both catastrophe and redemption. Kook argued dialectically, using a romantic and mystical mindset, that the secular and largely anti-religious nature of early Zionism was a necessary, albeit temporary, deviation from tradition that would be transvalued in the immanent redemptive future. Teitelbaum, who lived more deeply in the binary framework of talmudic literature, also believed that Zionism played a central role in the coming redemption, except that for him its role was not a Kookian inversion of tradition for the sake of redemption, but the pre-messianic heresy that Jews were required to resist in order for redemption to come.
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He founded [[Kiryas Joel]] in the Town of Monroe, Orange County, in the mid-1970s as an insular Yiddish enclave. The village later became coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree. Census figures show explosive growth: about 13,000 in 2000, 33,000 in 2020, around 39,000 on ACS 2024 five-year estimates, with other official estimates near 44,000 after 2020–24 growth of about one third.<ref name="JPostKJ">Glenn C. Altschuler, [https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-694801 Satmar’s micro-society: Kiryas Joel is a mirror of the American people] ''Jerusalem Post'', 27 January 2022.</ref><ref name="CensusReporter">Census Reporter, [http://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US3639853-kiryas-joel-ny/ Kiryas Joel, NY] ACS 2024 5-year, accessed September 2026.</ref>
  
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:Zionism was thus the false messiah that needed to be rejected for the true messiah to arrive. If Jews succumb to the temptation of the “final test,” and Teitelbaum knew that temptation was strong given its post-Holocaust context, redemption will come, but it will come though catastrophe. As Jewish historian [[Amos Funkenstein]] put it, according to Teitelbaum “[a] catastrophe is imminent, after which only a few, the ‘remnants of Israel,’ will survive to witness the true redemption. Indeed, Teitelbaum’s whole argument is embedded in the apocalyptic premise that the true redemption, through divine miracle, is very close at hand.” Kook believed that secular Zionism had to be embraced in order to be overcome; Teitelbaum believed Zionism had to be rejected in order to avoid catastrophic redemption. Another similarity between Kook and Teitelbaum is that both viewed the messiah, false and true, in terms of the more abstract idea of Zionism. For Kook, Zionism was the embodiment of messianism, for Teitelbaum it was its satanic prelude.
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[[Moshe Teitelbaum]] succeeded in 1979. After his death in 2006 the court split: [[Aaron]] kept Kiryas Joel and a Williamsburg hall at Kent and Hooper; [[Zalman]] kept the historic Rodney Street Yetev Lev and Williamsburg institutions. ''Der Yid'' is identified with Zalman; ''Der Blatt'' (from 2000) with Aaron. The brothers were publicly estranged for about two decades, speaking in 2020, and appeared together at a White House meeting with [[Donald Trump]] in September 2026 over welfare, prison conditions and the Israeli draft.<ref name="YWNTrump">The Yeshiva World, [https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2594035/historic-white-house-visit-inside-rebbes-extraordinary-meetings-with-trump-and-vance.html Historic White House visit] ''The Yeshiva World'', 4 September 2026.</ref>
  
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:If we think Teitelbaum’s position is unique in its extreme rejection of Zionism we would be mistaken. In general terms, Teitelbaum’s ideological commitments against Zionism are not new, but part of a much longer trajectory of traditional anti-Zionism that stems back to the early 20th century in the work of [[Hayyim Elazar Shapira of Munkacz]] (1868-1937), the “Old Settlement” Jews in Palestine, and, later, Neturei Karta in Israel. This anti-Zionism was also shared by much of the prewar ultra-Orthodox world, from Lithuanian rabbinic giant [[Elhanan Wasserman]] (1874-1941) to [[Yitzhok Zev Soloveitchik]] (1886-1959); and much of the Soloveitchik dynasty; and the Lubavitcher Rebbes [[Shalom Dov Schneershon]] (1860-1920) and [[Yosef Yizhak Schneershon]] (1880-1950), among many others.
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== Geography ==
  
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:The difference between Teitelbaum and many of his colleagues was that only Teitelbaum spent significant intellectual capital developing a political theology that not only reacted to the circumstantial instantiation of Zionism as heresy but placed it in a theological context that has its roots in the biblical narrative, for example, the Israelite rebellion of the golden calf, Job’s blasphemous response to his suffering, the Israelites’ rebellion against Moses in the desert, and the history of miracle in the Israelite and Jewish tradition. In addition, Teitelbaum rejected the largely pragmatic acquiescence to Zionism in groups like [[Agudat Yisrael]], viewing them like the righteous who were fooled into serving the golden calf in the Sinai desert.<ref name="Shaul"/>
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=== United States ===
  
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:In his dissertation on Teitelbaum, [[Menachem Keren-Krantz]] of [[Tel Aviv University]] writes, “Most Jews and Orthodox rabbis [after the Holocaust] were sympathetic to the Jewish state, even if they were suspicious of its secularism and the success of religion [in Israel] in the coming years. For the first five years, R. Yoel [Teitelbaum] was the only one who continued to maintain a staunch anti-Zionist position which had emerged [earlier] from the schools of radical Orthodoxy in Transylvania and its environs.” Until the late 1950s, however, Teitelbaum did not publish anything substantive on the subject but made his views known in oral sermons and in various media such as the Yiddish newspaper Der Yid, which he founded in New York and was widely read in the Yiddish-speaking ultra-Orthodox community. By the late 1950s, seeing the ultra-Orthodox community softening toward what he considered the Zionist heresy, he decided to publish his views in book form, in Vayoel Moshe.<ref name="Shaul"/>
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* '''South Williamsburg, Brooklyn''' — historic centre; Satmar-majority among Pupa, Vien, Klausenburg, Vizhnitz, Nitra, Krasna. Zalman’s Yetev Lev on Rodney Street; Aaron’s larger hall at Kent and Hooper. Community estimates put the wider Hasidic population of South Williamsburg in the tens of thousands.<ref name="ShulMap">Shul Map, [https://shulmap.com/neighborhoods/williamsburg/ Williamsburg Shuls] accessed September 2026.</ref>
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* '''[[Kiryas Joel]] / Town of Palm Tree, Orange County''' — Aaron’s seat; all-Satmar village; 8,000-family claims in faction literature; 24,000 pupils claimed across the two flagship school systems (12,000 each) in 2023 faction publications.<ref name="ShtetlSchools">Shtetl, [https://www.shtetl.org/article/satmar-community-touts-24-000-students-in-flagship-school-systems-highlighting-rapid-growth-and-its-broader-impact Satmar community touts 24,000 students] ''Shtetl'', 12 December 2023.</ref>
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* '''Borough Park; Monsey; Bloomingburg / Woodbury / Chester satellites; Lakewood; Los Angeles.'''
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* '''Montreal.'''
  
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If Satmar New York schools were a public system they would rank among the state’s largest after New York City, Buffalo and Rochester.<ref name="NYT2006">New York Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/nyregion/25teitelbaum.html report on Teitelbaum succession] ''The New York Times'', 25 April 2006.</ref>
  
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=== United Kingdom ===
  
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:The head of the Satmar Hassidic sect has accused his followers of increasingly admiring Israel for its military and political accomplishments, imploring them to maintain the Hasidic group’s hardline anti-Zionism. Addressing thousands of Satmar members at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum lamented what he called a “tremendous and terrible spiritual decline” among his followers. “According to the rumors I heard, [people] are excitedly talking about the news of [the Israelis’] accomplishments, how smart they are, how they succeed politically and militarily, and about their heads of government,” Teitelbaum told the crowd in an address in Yiddish on Sunday, according to a Hebrew translation from the Kann public broadcaster.  The head of the Satmar Hassidic sect has accused his followers of increasingly admiring Israel for its military and political accomplishments, imploring them to maintain the Hasidic group’s hardline anti-Zionism.Addressing thousands of Satmar members at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum lamented what he called a “tremendous and terrible spiritual decline” among his followers. “According to the rumors I heard, [people] are excitedly talking about the news of [the Israelis’] accomplishments, how smart they are, how they succeed politically and militarily, and about their heads of government,” Teitelbaum told the crowd in an address in Yiddish on Sunday, according to a Hebrew translation from the Kann public broadcaster. “We must yell gevalt, gevalt! To where have we come?” he declared. “We have no part in Zionism. We have no part in their wars. We have no part in the State of Israel.” The Satmar, one of the largest Hasidic groups in the world, is staunchly anti-Zionist and does not recognize the State of Israel, maintaining a Jewish state should not exist until the Messiah appears.
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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.
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== Institutions in the United Kingdom ==
  
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:“We’ll continue to fight God’s war against Zionism and all its aspects,” Teitelbaum said. The Satmar rabbi also spoke out against draft legislation regarding military service for ultra-Orthodox seminary students in Israel. “We declare there can be no compromise,” he said. “We won’t agree to any compromise regarding the [military] draft law for yeshiva students.” Teitelbaum’s remarks came as the coalition is haggling over legislation addressing mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox seminary students. Earlier this week, the head of the ultra-Orthodox [[United Torah Judaism]] party gave an “unequivocal” ultimatum that his faction will bolt the government if legislation is not passed in the next seven weeks exempting members of his community from mandatory military service. Deputy Health Minister [[Yaakov Litzman]]’s threat, not his first of this nature, comes ahead of a September deadline set by the High Court of Justice for the Knesset to re-legislate a previous exemption that the court disqualified on the grounds that it violated principles of equality. In September 2017, the High Court of Justice struck down a law exempting ultra-Orthodox men engaged in religious study from military service, saying it undermined the principle of equality before the law. However, the court suspended its decision for a year to allow for a new arrangement to be put in place, giving the government the option to pass a new law. After a similar ultimatum was made by [[UTJ]] during the Knesset’s winter session, coalition partners reached a last-minute deal to cooperate on the contentious issue in order to reach an agreement before the deadline. But a compromise agreement still remains elusive, with Defense Minister [[Avigdor Liberman]] vowing that his staunchly secular Yisrael Beytenu party would not fold in the face of demands made by their ultra-Orthodox coalition partners.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-satmar-hasidic-sect-castigates-followers-for-admiring-israel-idf/</ref>
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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]].
  
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===Satmar and Neturei Karta===
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Some [[Neturei Karta]] members are [[Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)|Satmar]] Hasidim and so there is occasional public hostility from the Satmar towards [[Neturei Karta]] . 
 
  
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| [[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>
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| [[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>
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| [[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>
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| [[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>
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| [[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>
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| [[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]].
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| [[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>
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:Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, a.k.a. Reb Zalman Leib, one of two Satmar Rebbes and the son of the Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, on Sunday night, attacked the sect of Neturei Karta who have been demonstrating in New York City in support of Hamas and against the Jewish State. “There are those who do not have any ancestral tradition, and carry out actions independently, because they think they understand more than the late Tzaddikim,” the Rebbe said, referring to the fringe group that advocates the “peaceful dismantling” of Israel because its very existence constitutes rebellion against God. “Unfortunately, we see how far they have strayed from the path,” the Rebbe said. “They are walking around the world together with the Arabs, with those who shout without any shame and support the murders, they walk with them in broad daylight with the Shtreimel and the gown and shout together with the haters of Israel and murderers of souls. This is a terrible desecration of the name of heaven, to strengthen murderers in the name of the Holy Torah and in the name of heaven.” The Satmar movement is considered anti-Zionist and presents itself as the ideological guardian of the entire Haredi public. They are the biggest contributors to the Haredi community and institutions that do not receive budgets from the State of Israel. However, unlike Neturei Karta, they maintain ties with pro-Zionist Haredi communities.<ref>https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/satmar-rebbe-condemns-neturei-karta-for-supporting-hamas-murders/2023/11/13/</ref>
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! Name !! Number !! Role
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| [[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" />
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| [[Talmud Torah Torah Veyirah D'Satmar London Limited]] || 1136378 || Boys’ primary proprietor; trustees [[Solomon Berkowitz]], [[Maurice Freund]], [[Aaron Langberg]].
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| [[Beis Ruchel D'Satmar (London) Limited]] || 1125988 || Girls’ school; trustees [[Abraham Klein]], [[Jacob Kernkraut]], [[Jacob Herzka]].
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| [[Beis Ruchel School Ltd]] || 1074439 || Manchester / Salford girls’ schools.
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| [[KH D'Satmar Ltd]] || 1160643 || Salford synagogue, out-of-school club, grants.
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| [[Cong Yetev Lev D'Satmar M/C Ltd]] || 1115899 || Manchester congregation.
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| [[Satmar Torah Trust Ltd]] || — || Linked trusteeship with Cong Yetev Lev M/C.
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| [[Kollel Yetev Lev Ltd]] || — || Linked trusteeship ([[Benjamin Ollech]]).
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| [[Congregation Yetev Lev Dsatmar Antwerp Limited]] || UK company || Antwerp kehilla vehicle; trustee overlap with London Torah Veyirah ([[Maurice Freund]]).
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| [[Yeitev Lev Eretz Israel Ltd]] || — || Israel-facing vehicle; trustee overlap with Bais Rochel ([[Solomon Berkowitz]]).
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| [[Just Kidding]] || 1186598 || Childcare; same circle as Bais Rochel / Torah Veyirah.
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|}
  
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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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==Skver and the Satmar==
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=== Israel and occupied territory ===
  
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:The Hasidic community – especially Satmar and the less-populous Skver group – is veering ever more towards extremism. If it isn’t a new law prohibiting long robes traditionally worn on Shabbat, it is a ban on the internet, smartphones, concerts, strawberries, raspberries, grapes (for the slight chance they contain insects), eye makeup by makeup artists (yes, this is the case in Kiryas Joel), and now the innocent images of three-year-old girls.
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== Israel, the Green Line and occupied territory ==
  
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:This radicalized Hasidism does not include Chabad. Even though they are, by definition, Hasidic, the Lubavitchers’ representation as the poster children of Hasidism in America and worldwide is a gross misrepresentation. Many other Hasidic groups shun Chabad as a separate, modernized entity – akin to the Modern Orthodox – and whose chumros (stringencies) are a lot more lax than the bona fide Hasidim. The media-savviness of Chabad and comfortable relationship with secularism exemplifies their worldliness – something the majority of Hasidim are decidedly not, as a consequence of their insularity.<ref>https://forward.com/opinion/181566/blurring-out-satmar-history/</ref>
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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.
  
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:Skver has thrown its support behind Democrat Kathy Hochul for governor, joining Satmar’s Aronim faction in backing the incumbent who has signaled that she will not do anything to oppose the New York Board of Regents’ attacks against yeshivas. Skver and Satmar are now the only two voting blocs within the broader Orthodox Jewish community in New York who have spurned their brethren in endorsing Republican Lee Zeldin and his pledge to support Orthodox Jews and yeshivas and protect their way of life.
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[[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.
  
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:Skver also endorsed Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat who is locked in a tight race with Assemblyman Mike Lawler. Despite the endorsements of Hochul and Maloney, many Satmar Aronim and Skverers are expected to vote for the Republicans, with their leadership’s endorsements having little effect on their vote in the crime-ridden and anti-yeshiva climate of New York.<ref>https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2134796/outliers-skver-joins-satmar-in-endorsing-hochul-also-backs-maloney.html</ref>
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=== Inside the Green Line (Israel in the 1949 armistice sense) ===
  
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==Voting bloc - June 2025==
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Named Satmar housing and schools sit on the Israeli side of the 1949 line:
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:Governor [[Andrew M. Cuomo]], candidate for [[Mayor of New York City]], today received the endorsement of the main Satmar community in Williamsburg, led politically by [[Rabbi Niederman]], together with a coalition of the main congregations in the area, including [[Pupa]], [[Viznitz]], [[Vien]], [[Tzelim]], [[Nitra]], [[Krasna]], [[Skver]] and [[Klausenburg]]. This group is known as the largest Orthodox voting bloc in the city. This marks the sixth Orthodox Jewish group to endorse Cuomo, joining the [[Far Rockaway Jewish Alliance]], the [[Bobov community in Borough Park]], [[Crown Jewish United and the Crown Heights PAC]], and [[Satmar Ahronim]], in backing Cuomo’s bid. Cuomo has also received the endorsement of the [[Sephardic Community Federation]].
 
  
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:“I'm deeply honored to have the endorsement of the Satmars, a powerful nod that speaks to the deep bond and affection I’ve developed over the years with this community,” Governor Cuomo said. “I have great admiration for Rabbi Niederman, who is a true example of a real leader and who I’m proud to call a friend. Before coming to Brooklyn, he put his life on the line to save Jews in the Middle East. He’s helped to make the UJO from a three person team into a true New York powerhouse. In this election, antisemitism is on the ballot. When I become Mayor, I promise to continue my record of fighting antisemitism, and serving as that shield to protect our Jewish brothers and sisters.”<ref>https://www.andrewcuomo.com/press/cuomo-receives-major-endorsement-satmar-williamsburg-led-grand-rebbe-zalmen-teitelbaum-one</ref>
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* '''[[Shikun Satmar]]''' — north-west Jerusalem housing belt between [[Ezrat Torah]] and [[Tel Arza]], in the same Romema / Yirmiyahu Street Haredi strip as Geula and [[Mea Shearim]]. This is west / municipal Jerusalem as Israel defined it before 1967, not a named East Jerusalem settlement.
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* '''[[Mea Shearim]] / Geula''' — historic Old Yishuv and Edah street grid; Satmar and Edah batei din, kashrut offices and draft protests concentrate here.
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* '''[[Bnei Brak]]''' — Aaron-leaning Satmar families and yeshivas; Israel proper.
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* '''[[Elad]]''' and '''[[Beit Shemesh]]''' (including Ramat Beit Shemesh) — satellite Haredi towns inside the Green Line; small Satmar presence among a mixed Haredi population.
  
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==Satmar in the UK==
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[[Keren Hatzolah]]’s published purpose is support for yeshivas and poor households that refuse Israeli government stipends. In practice that money follows Edah / Satmar institutions in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak. Charity filings in the US and UK name “Israel”; they do not publish a line-by-line split of grants inside the Green Line versus East Jerusalem or the West Bank.
  
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===Canvey Island===
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=== Over the Green Line: what Satmar does and does not do ===
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:As in other countries with sizable Jewish populations, the Haredi community is the fastest-growing Jewish group, estimated currently at around 60,000, or 20 percent of British Jews. But over the past decades, while they increased in number, they shrank in geography, concentrating in a handful of neighborhoods in north London and Manchester, with one northern outpost around the yeshiva in Gateshead founded in 1929. This is the first major migration of Haredi Jews to a brand-new location within Britain in nearly a century, when the children of migrants from Eastern Europe began moving from the overcrowded East End of London to the more comfortable suburbs to the north, making way for new waves of immigration to Britain.
 
  
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:And unlike in the United States, where ultra-Orthodox communities have been moving out of New York City to places such as Lakewood, Monsey, Kiryas Joel, and New Square since the 1940s, the Canvey Island community wasn’t created at the behest of a charismatic rabbi. It was the initiative of a few men in their late twenties and thirties. “We were a group of about seven or eight people, in early 2015, who stayed behind at shul one evening after Ma’ariv and talked about house prices and what we can do,” says [[Joel Friedman]], one of the founding members of the community and the first to purchase his family’s new home in Canvey Island, in February 2016.
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Satmar does '''not''' found or brand settler towns comparable to [[Beitar Illit]] or [[Modiin Illit]] ([[Kiryat Sefer]]), the giant Haredi cities built after 1967 on occupied West Bank land and now among the largest settlements. Those cities are Agudah / Lithuanian / mixed-Hasidic housing markets, not Satmar courts. [[Aaron Teitelbaum]] has blamed Jews “living in the territories” for the violence that follows, a line consistent with opposing Religious-Zionist (and, by extension, mass Haredi) settlement while still funding anti-draft Haredi life in the land of Israel.<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>
  
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:Friedman, 37, is a father of seven, a Satmar Hasid, and for want of a better definition, can be best described as a macher — a grassroots activist. He commutes daily back to Stamford Hill in London, where he works as director of public affairs at [[Interlink]] and the [[Pinter Trust]], organizations that work to provide public services within the British Haredi community and connect it with local authorities, the media, and the British government. His group spent nearly a year trying to find a location for their new community.They scoured the area around London, looking for a place that fit their requirements. It would need to be about an hour away, so as to be “not too far, but also not too close, so it could become self-sustainable and not rely on Stamford Hill for everything,” says Friedman. It would need to have a low crime rate, space for building communal institutions, and above all, a ready supply of homes at reasonable prices.<ref></ref>
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Activity that '''does''' cross the Green Line is institutional and ritual, not a Satmar municipal project:
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==Institutions==
 
  
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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.
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Place !! Status !! Satmar / Edah activity
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|-
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| Western Wall / Old City holy sites || Occupied East Jerusalem (taken 1967) || After the 1967 war Teitelbaum forbade prayer at the Wall and other captured sites in ''Al Ha-Geulah ve-Al Ha-Temurah'', arguing that worship there would confer legitimacy on the state. That ban is a Satmar rule '''about''' occupied ground; it is the opposite of Religious-Zionist pilgrimage.
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|-
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| Municipal East Jerusalem (shops, hotels, shemita produce, arba minim) || Occupied East Jerusalem under Israeli municipal annexation || [[Edah HaChareidis]] [[Badatz]] kashrut supervision runs city-wide. Hotels and food businesses in central and East Jerusalem carry Edah hechsherim. That is commercial-religious jurisdiction across the Green Line, not a Satmar housing estate.
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|-
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| [[Ramat Shlomo]], [[Neve Yaakov]], [[Ramot]] (east sections), [[Givat Ze'ev]] || East Jerusalem / West Bank settlement belt || Haredi neighbourhoods over the line. Edah-type households live there; Satmar does not advertise a named kehillah as it does Shikun Satmar.
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| [[Beitar Illit]], [[Modiin Illit]] / Kiryat Sefer || West Bank settlements || Largest Haredi settler cities. Edah umbrella literature lists members in Kiryat Sefer and Beitar Illit. Those are other courts’ and Litvish families’ housing. Satmar leadership publicly treats “the territories” as a Religious-Zionist error, not a Satmar mitzvah.
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|-
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| Draft resistance / CRC–Edah protests || Students live on both sides of the line || Anti-conscription campaign (including the 2025 “Cry of the Exile” in New York) covers yeshiva boys wherever they are registered in “Eretz Yisrael,” including settlement yeshivas. The demand is exemption from the [[IDF]], not a Satmar flag over Beitar.
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|}
  
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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.
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=== How to read the map ===
  
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[[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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Satmar’s '''named''' geography in the country is west Jerusalem plus Bnei Brak, Elad and Beit Shemesh — Green Line Israel — plus an Edah presidency that historically claimed the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem as a whole. Its '''doctrine''' treats 1967 conquest as illegitimate, forbids using the Kotel as a Zionist shrine, and funds those who will not take state money. Its '''money''' (Keren Hatzolah, Yeitev Lev Eretz Israel Ltd and related UK/US vehicles) is declared for “Israel” without a public Green Line / OPT ledger. Its '''people''' overlap the Edah world, some of whom live in East Jerusalem neighbourhoods and in Beitar / Modiin Illit. That overlap is not the same as Satmar building settlements.
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Satmar also operates its own [[Beth din|rabbinical courts]], which settle various issues within the community by the principles of Jewish Law.
 
  
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The sect has a Yiddish newspaper called ''[[Der Yid]]'', now privatized, and various other Yiddish publications. It is currently identified with Zalman's  Hasidim; whereas ''[[Der Blatt]]'', established in 2000, is owned and run by a follower of Aaron's.
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=== Elsewhere ===
  
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===UK===
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Antwerp; São Paulo; Melbourne; Argentina.
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====Schools in the UK====
 
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[[Beis Rochel d'Satmar Girls' School]]  Hackney | [[Beis Rochel D'Satmar School]]  Hackney | [[Beis Rochel Mcr Girls' School]] Salford | [[Beis Ruchel D`Satmar]] Hackney | [[Beis Ruchel Girls School (secondary)]] Salford | [[Beis Ruchel Girls School]]
 
  
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===US===
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== Orientation to Zionism ==
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*[[Satmar non profits in the US]]
 
  
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== Notable Satmar people ==
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Satmar anti-Zionism is not quiet non-recognition. ''Vayoel Moshe'' and ''Al Ha-Geulah'' treat the state as heresy that delays redemption: a golden-calf / false-messiah test. [[Shaul Magid]] stresses that [[Joel Teitelbaum]] almost never names Zionist thinkers; he writes in beit-midrash idiom against ''minim'' and ''apikorsim'' for an ultra-Orthodox audience tempted after the Holocaust and 1967. Magid argues that [[Abraham Isaac Kook]] and Teitelbaum both read Zionism messianically: Kook as a necessary secular husk to be transvalued; Teitelbaum as the satanic prelude that must be refused or redemption will come only through catastrophe. Teitelbaum’s lineage runs through [[Hayyim Elazar Shapira of Munkacz]], the Old Yishuv, early [[Neturei Karta]], [[Elhanan Wasserman]] and interwar Lubavitch anti-Zionism — but only he built a full political theology and rejected [[Agudat Yisrael]]’s pragmatic seating in Zionist institutions as service of the calf.<ref name="Magid" />
  
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* [[Aaron Teitelbaum]] (born 1947), rebbe of Satmar in Kiryas Yoel, New York
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[[Menachem Keren-Kratz]] notes that for the first post-Holocaust years Teitelbaum was almost alone among prominent rabbis in holding the pre-war Transylvanian hard line; he preached in ''Der Yid'' before putting the system in book form in 1959 when he judged Haredi opinion to be softening.<ref name="Magid" />
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* [[Chaim Yehoshua Halberstam]], Satmar rabbi in Monsey, New York
 
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* [[Joel Teitelbaum]] (1887–1979), founding rebbe of Satmar
 
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* [[Louis Kestenbaum]] (born 1952), American real estate developer<ref>Kusisto, Laura (June 16, 2014) [https://www.wsj.com/articles/familiar-face-emerges-in-lich-saga-1402972744 "Familiar Face Emerges in LICH Saga"], ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved April 19, 2020.</ref>
 
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* [[Meilech Kohn]] (born 1969), American singer<ref>Liel Leibovitz [http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/247510/straight-outta-satmar-hear-the-biggest-hasidic-hit-of-right-now Straight Outta Satmar: Hear the Biggest Hasidic Hit of Right Now] October 20, 2017 [[Tablet (magazine)|Tablet]]</ref>
 
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* [[Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar)|Moshe Teitelbaum]] (1914–2006), rebbe
 
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* [[Shmueli Ungar]], singer
 
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* [[Yossi Green]] (born 1955), American composer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/115718/musician-yossi-green-weathers-the-storm-in-seagate|title=Yossi Green Weathers Storm in Seagate|first=Joseph|last=Winkler|date=November 5, 2012|access-date=November 30, 2013|work=Tablet |quote=Yossi Green — the Satmar-raised musician and composer profiled in today's Tablet — lives in the Seagate neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, along with many other prominent Jews.}}</ref>
 
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* [[Zalman Teitelbaum]] (born 1951), rebbe of Satmar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
 
  
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== Further reading==
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[[Aaron Teitelbaum]], addressing Nassau Coliseum, later rebuked Hasidim for admiring Israeli military and political “accomplishments”: “We have no part in Zionism. We have no part in their wars. We have no part in the State of Israel.” He rejected any compromise on drafting yeshiva students.<ref name="TOIAaron" /> The [[Jewish Chronicle]] has insisted that Satmar theology also forbids backing PLO, Islamist or far-left campaigns against Jews: [[Joel Teitelbaum]] called such organisations antisemitic murderers.<ref name="JCStern" />
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* [[Deborah Feldman|Feldman, Deborah]] (2012). ''Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots''. New York: Simon & Schuster. {{ISBN|978-1-4391-8701-2}}.
 
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** Roberts, Sam, [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/nyregion/books-on-a-racial-attraction-a-religious-rejection-and-new-york-architecture.html "Embracing a Race and Rejecting a Sect"]. Bookshelf. ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 12, 2012.
 
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** ''[[The New York Times]]'' [https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2012-10-21/paperback-nonfiction/list.html Bestseller: Non-fiction, October 21, 2012].
 
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* Weisshaus, Yechezkel Yossef (2008). ''The Rebbe: A Glimpse into the Daily Life of the Satmar Rebbe Rabbeinu Yoel Teitelbaum''. Translated by Mechon Lev Avos from ''Sefer Eidis B'Yosef'' by Rabbi Yechezkel Yosef Weisshaus. Machon Lev Avos. Lakewood, New Jersey: Distributed by Israel Book Shop. {{ISBN|978-1-60091-063-0}}.
 
  
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==External links==
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In October 2025 the [[Central Rabbinical Congress]] called a “Cry of the Exile” rally at the Israeli consulate in New York against IDF draft enforcement; both Satmar rebbes urged attendance, a rare wartime protest against the state rather than silence.<ref name="TOICRC">Times of Israel, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/central-rabbinical-congress/ Central Rabbinical Congress] coverage of October 2025 rally.</ref>
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*https://mishpacha.com/the-kingmaker-from-williamsburg/
 
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* [http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=29556 (March 22, 2006). "Satmar Dispute Over Many Millions To Be Decided by a Secular Court"], ''New York Sun''. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
 
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* [http://forward.com/articles/7746 One Rebbe or Two? (05/05/06)], ''[[The Forward]]''.
 
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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.
 
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* [http://newyorkmetro.com/news/cityside/16864/index.html Hats On, Gloves Off (05/08/06)] from ''[[New York Magazine]]''. Accessed December 18, 2022.
 
  
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*https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/21/nyregion/2-hasidic-groups-in-brooklyn-involved-in-complex-conflict.html
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== Satmar and Neturei Karta ==
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*https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/03/nyregion/guard-set-for-belz-rabbi-as-hasidic-tension-grows.html
 
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* https://forward.com/news/445164/satmar-hasidic-orthodox-jewish/?amp=1
 
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*https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/jewish-world/2022/05/the-specter-of-satmar/
 
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*https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/03/nyregion/guard-set-for-belz-rabbi-as-hasidic-tension-grows.html
 
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*https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/how-500-haredi-jews-moved-4418425
 
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*https://hal.science/hal-03114694/document
 
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*https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336071973_Canvey_Island_The_Effects_of_Group_Action_of_Satmar_Community
 
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*https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2022/january/haredi-engagement-work-Risden/
 
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*https://k-larevue.com/en/postcard-from-canvey-island/
 
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*https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/jewish-world/2022/05/the-specter-of-satmar/
 
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*https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/03/nyregion/guard-set-for-belz-rabbi-as-hasidic-tension-grows.html
 
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*https://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/88108/excerpt/9781107088108_excerpt.pdf
 
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*https://www.scribd.com/document/92789516/Jewish-Nationalism-Satmar-Hasidim-Neturei-Karta-And-Hadash
 
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*https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398215
 
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*https://www.shtetl.org/article/concerned-about-haredim-siding-with-israel-satmar-rabbis-issue-media-guidelines-for-war-coverage
 
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*https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/244926/satmar-rebbe-of-kiryas-yoel-its-their-fault-for-living-in-the-territories.html
 
  
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==See also==
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Some [[Neturei Karta]] members come from Satmar families. The court repeatedly draws a line: anti-Zionism is not alliance with Holocaust deniers or with those who praise attacks on Israeli civilians.
  
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*[[Siget (Hasidic dynasty)]]
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In 2006 Satmar issued a placard against seven Neturei Karta figures who attended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust-denial conference in Tehran, ordering shunning for “walk[ing] hand in hand with the Arabs” and belittling the murdered.<ref name="Ynet2006">Ynet, [https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3340592,00.html Satmar slams Neturei Karta over Iran conference] ''Ynet News'', 2006.</ref>
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*[[Munkacs (Hasidic dynasty)]]
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*[[Hasidic dynasties]]
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In November 2023 [[Zalman Teitelbaum]] attacked Neturei Karta demonstrations in New York “in support of Hamas”: walking “together with the Arabs… who shout… and support the murders” in shtreimel and bekishe was a “terrible desecration of the name of heaven.” Reports noted that Satmar still funds Haredi institutions that refuse Israeli budgets, yet unlike Neturei Karta it keeps ties with pro-Zionist Haredi communities for welfare and politics.<ref name="JP2023">Jewish Press, [https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/satmar-rebbe-condemns-neturei-karta-for-supporting-hamas-murders/2023/11/13/ Satmar Rebbe condemns Neturei Karta for supporting Hamas murders] ''The Jewish Press'', 13 November 2023.</ref>
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== Relations with other Orthodox and Hasidic groups ==
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* '''[[Agudat Yisrael]] / [[United Torah Judaism]]''' — theological opponents (state funding, Knesset, Council of Torah Sages). Satmar still inhabits the same Haredi street and sometimes coordinates American pressure against the draft with UTJ’s Israeli agenda.
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* '''Religious Zionism / [[Abraham Isaac Kook]] heirs''' — the foil of ''Al Ha-Geulah''; settlement in “the territories” is blamed for war, not blessed as atchalta de-geulah.
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* '''[[Chabad-Lubavitch]]''' — shunned by Satmar-type Hasidim as modernised and media-savvy; not treated as a peer court.<ref name="ForwardBlur">Forward, [https://forward.com/opinion/181566/blurring-out-satmar-history/ Blurring out Satmar history] ''The Forward''.</ref>
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* '''[[Skver]]''' — fellow Hungarian-style stringency (New Square). The two have aligned as New York voting outliers, e.g. endorsing Kathy Hochul against a wider Orthodox tilt to Lee Zeldin.<ref name="YWNHochul">The Yeshiva World, [https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2134796/outliers-skver-joins-satmar-in-endorsing-hochul-also-backs-maloney.html Outliers: Skver joins Satmar in endorsing Hochul] ''The Yeshiva World''.</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.
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* '''[[Edah HaChareidis]] partners''' ([[Toldos Aharon]], Dushinsky, etc.) — Jerusalem anti-Zionist umbrella once headed by Satmar rebbes.
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== Satmar and [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] ==
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[[Satmar]] and [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] are the two largest organised Hasidic projects in the postwar United States, and they are ideological opposites. Satmar built an insulated Yiddish enclave in [[Williamsburg]] and later [[Kiryas Joel]]. Chabad, from [[770 Eastern Parkway]] in [[Crown Heights]], built a global network of ''shluchim'' aimed at non-observant Jews. [[Joel Teitelbaum]] treated other Jews who accepted Zionism or modern Hebrew as heretics to be fenced off; [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]] treated them as a field for outreach.<ref name="JCWilliamsburg">Jewish Currents, [https://jewishcurrents.org/the-making-of-satmar-williamsburg The Making of Satmar Williamsburg], 8 May 2026.</ref>
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=== Shared ancestry, opposite conclusions ===
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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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The same split runs through language. Teitelbaum’s essay on ''lashon ha-kodesh'' treats modern Hebrew as a Zionist garment of impurity. Chabad uses modern Hebrew freely in Israel and in outreach.<ref name="Mayse" />
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=== Street conflict, 1977 ===
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The theological quarrel became a neighbourhood quarrel in Brooklyn. The ''New York Times'' reported that in spring 1977 Satmar and Lubavitch Hasidim fought in the streets over Israel and “neighbourhood sanctity.” A candy store was burned, a caravan stoned, Israeli flags burned, a rabbi hung in effigy. Lubavitch support for the Entebbe raid was the ideological trigger; a Lubavitch Lag BaOmer march of about 2,000 into Williamsburg on 9 April met a Satmar crowd of similar size on Bedford Avenue. Each side accused the other of assault.<ref name="NYT1977">New York Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/01/archives/hasidim-in-brooklyn-feuding-over-israel-and-neighborhood-sanctity.html Hasidim in Brooklyn Feuding Over Israel and Neighborhood Sanctity], 1 June 1977.</ref>
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Geography still encodes the split: Satmar-majority South Williamsburg versus Chabad-majority Crown Heights. Satmar literature treats Chabad’s media presence and comfort with secular institutions as a form of Modern Orthodoxy in Hasidic dress, not as a peer court.
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=== Messianism ===
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After Schneerson’s death in 1994 a Chabad meshichist stream proclaimed him the Messiah. Satmar messianism runs the other way: Zionism is the false messiah that must be refused so that the true redemption can arrive. The two courts therefore accuse each other of corrupting the idea of Mashiach — Chabad by attaching it to a dead rebbe and to the Israeli state, Satmar by making anti-Zionism itself a redemptive test.<ref name="MagidChabad" />
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=== What they still share ===
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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.
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== Voting bloc, [[Skver]] and the Williamsburg courts ==
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Williamsburg Satmar under [[Moshe Dovid Niederman]] and the [[United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn]] ([[UJO]]) is routinely described as New York City’s largest Orthodox voting bloc. Endorsements track yeshiva regulation, welfare and street safety more than Israel policy.
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In June 2025 the main Williamsburg court ([[Zalman Teitelbaum]]) plus [[Pupa]], [[Vizhnitz]], [[Vien]], Tzelim, [[Nitra]], [[Krasna]], [[Skver]] and [[Klausenburg]] endorsed [[Andrew Cuomo]] for mayor, after Satmar Ahronim ([[Aaron Teitelbaum]]) 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>
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=== [[Skver]] ===
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[[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.
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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.
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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.
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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>
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=== UJO: a civic machine, not one rebbe ===
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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>
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The courts in that machine, and on the 2025 Cuomo list, are political partners, not theological copies:
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* '''[[Pupa]]''' — Hungarian court; historic Williamsburg neighbour; co-founder circle of the [[Central Rabbinical Congress]] with Satmar.
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* '''[[Vizhnitz]]''' — Galician/Bukovinian; Williamsburg kloiz plus a separate Monsey rebbe who joined the 2026 White House meeting.
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* '''[[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.
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* '''[[Klausenburg]]''' (Sanz-Klausenburg) — Williamsburg hall; separate Israeli and Netanya institutions; non-Satmar Sanz theology.
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* '''[[Nitra]]''' — Hungarian yeshiva court; Williamsburg and Mount Kisco; CRC milieu.
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* '''[[Krasna]]''' — small Hungarian court in the same street grid.
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* '''[[Tzelim]]''' (Tzelem) — Williamsburg partner named on the Cuomo slate.
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* '''[[Belz]]''' — neighbourhood partner in some slates. This is street politics. In 1979 Satmar students wrecked a Belz synagogue in Williamsburg in a fight over religious courts in Israel; the courts have long disagreed about [[Agudat Yisrael]] and Israeli institutions even when they share Bedford Avenue.
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* '''[[Skver]]''' — New Square votes with Satmar when the issue is Albany and yeshivas; it is not a Williamsburg street court.
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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.
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== Institutions ==
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* Schools: Beis Rochel / Beis Ruchel (girls); Torah VeYirah; [[United Talmudical Seminary]]; [[Yeshivas Maharit D'Satmar]].
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* Aid: [[Bikur Cholim]]; Rav Tuv (Soviet, later Iranian and Yemenite Jews); [[Keren Hatzolah]] (yeshivas and poor in Israel who refuse state benefits).
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* Kashrut and courts: [[Central Rabbinical Congress]]; internal batei din.
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* Press: ''[[Der Yid]]'' (Zalman); ''[[Der Blatt]]'' (Aaron).
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* UK schools: [[Beis Rochel d'Satmar Girls' School]] and [[Beis Rochel D'Satmar School]] (Hackney); [[Beis Rochel Mcr Girls' School]], [[Beis Ruchel Girls School]] (Salford); [[Beis Ruchel D`Satmar]] (Hackney).
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* See also [[Satmar non profits in the US]].
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== Notable people ==
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* [[Joel Teitelbaum]] (1887–1979), founder
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* [[Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar)|Moshe Teitelbaum]] (1914–2006)
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* [[Aaron Teitelbaum]] (born 1947), Kiryas Joel
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* [[Zalman Teitelbaum]] (born 1951), Williamsburg
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* [[Alte Feiga Teitelbaum]], Bikur Cholim
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* [[Moshe Dovid Niederman]], UJO Williamsburg
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* [[Chaim Yehoshua Halberstam]], Satmar rabbi in Monsey
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* [[Louis Kestenbaum]], property
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* [[Yossi Green]], composer
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* [[Meilech Kohn]], [[Shmueli Ungar]], singers
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== See also ==
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* [[Siget (Hasidic dynasty)]]
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* [[Munkacs (Hasidic dynasty)]]
 
* [[Neturei Karta]]
 
* [[Neturei Karta]]
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* [[Edah HaChareidis]]
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* [[Central Rabbinical Congress]]
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* [[Hasidic dynasties]]
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* [[Kiryas Joel]]
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* [[Agudat Yisrael]]
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== External links ==
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* [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/satmar-anti-zionist Shaul Magid on Satmar anti-Zionism]
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* [https://mishpacha.com/the-kingmaker-from-williamsburg/ Mishpacha: The kingmaker from Williamsburg]
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* [https://yeshivasmaharit.org/ Yeshivas Maharit D'Satmar]
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* [https://k-larevue.com/en/postcard-from-canvey-island/ Canvey Island]
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== Further reading ==
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* Deborah Feldman, ''Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
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* Yechezkel Yossef Weisshaus, ''The Rebbe'', Machon Lev Avos / Israel Book Shop, 2008.
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== Notes ==
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Largest Hasidic court; Hungarian-origin anti-Zionist dynasty split between Aaron Teitelbaum (Kiryas Joel) and Zalman Teitelbaum (Williamsburg)


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Satmar
Founded 1905 (Satu Mare); rebuilt in New York after 1946 Satu Mare (Satmar), then Kingdom of Hungary
Founder Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979)
Leader Rebbe (Kiryas Joel / Ahronim) Aaron Teitelbaum (born 1947)
Headquarters Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Kiryas Joel, New York
Type Hasidic court (Haredi Judaism)

Satmar (Yiddish: סאטמאר) is a Hasidic court originating in Satu Mare (Satmar) in historic Hungary, rebuilt in New York after the Holocaust by Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979). It is the largest Hasidic group in the world. Marcin Wodziński’s mid-2010s count from internal telephone books put Satmar at about 26,000 households — some 20 per cent of all Hasidim — split after 2006 between two sons of Moshe Teitelbaum (1914–2006): Aaron Teitelbaum in Kiryas Joel and Zalman Teitelbaum in Williamsburg.[1]

Satmar is the principal organised bearer of Hungarian Haredi anti-Zionism in the United States. It rejects Agudat Yisrael participation in Israeli coalitions, funds institutions that refuse state money through vehicles such as Keren Hatzolah, and heads the Central Rabbinical Congress in North America while remaining tied to the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem. It simultaneously condemns Neturei Karta when the latter joins Iranian or Palestinian platforms, and it operates as a New York voting machine that endorses secular Democrats and Republicans. That mix — theological rejection of the state, material support for Haredim who live in it, and American political brokerage — is the court’s public profile.[2][3]

History

Joel Teitelbaum, from the Sighet / Sighet Teitelbaum line, became rabbi of Satu Mare and built a court marked by Hungarian Haredi stringency and hostility to Zionism and to Agudat Yisrael’s political bargains. He survived Bergen-Belsen on the Kastner train, reached Palestine, then settled in Williamsburg in 1946 and reconstituted the court among Hungarian survivors.[1]

He founded Der Yid, the girls’ schools called Beis Rochel and the boys’ yeshivas Torah VeYirah, the United Talmudical Seminary, Bikur Cholim (1957, organised by Alte Feiga Teitelbaum), refugee aid under Rav Tuv, and in 1953 the Central Rabbinical Congress of the United States and Canada. He served as chief rabbi of the Edah HaChareidis from 1953 until his death while living in New York. In 1959 he published Vayoel Moshe; after the 1967 war he published Al Ha-Geulah ve-Al Ha-Temurah against treating the conquest of Jerusalem and the West Bank as messianic miracle.[1]

He founded Kiryas Joel in the Town of Monroe, Orange County, in the mid-1970s as an insular Yiddish enclave. The village later became coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree. Census figures show explosive growth: about 13,000 in 2000, 33,000 in 2020, around 39,000 on ACS 2024 five-year estimates, with other official estimates near 44,000 after 2020–24 growth of about one third.[4][5]

Moshe Teitelbaum succeeded in 1979. After his death in 2006 the court split: Aaron kept Kiryas Joel and a Williamsburg hall at Kent and Hooper; Zalman kept the historic Rodney Street Yetev Lev and Williamsburg institutions. Der Yid is identified with Zalman; Der Blatt (from 2000) with Aaron. The brothers were publicly estranged for about two decades, speaking in 2020, and appeared together at a White House meeting with Donald Trump in September 2026 over welfare, prison conditions and the Israeli draft.[6]

Geography

United States

  • South Williamsburg, Brooklyn — historic centre; Satmar-majority among Pupa, Vien, Klausenburg, Vizhnitz, Nitra, Krasna. Zalman’s Yetev Lev on Rodney Street; Aaron’s larger hall at Kent and Hooper. Community estimates put the wider Hasidic population of South Williamsburg in the tens of thousands.[7]
  • Kiryas Joel / Town of Palm Tree, Orange County — Aaron’s seat; all-Satmar village; 8,000-family claims in faction literature; 24,000 pupils claimed across the two flagship school systems (12,000 each) in 2023 faction publications.[8]
  • Borough Park; Monsey; Bloomingburg / Woodbury / Chester satellites; Lakewood; Los Angeles.
  • Montreal.

If Satmar New York schools were a public system they would rank among the state’s largest after New York City, Buffalo and Rochester.[9]

United Kingdom

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.[10] Manchester / Salford holds Beis Rochel / Beis Ruchel schools.

Institutions in the United Kingdom

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

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.[11]
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.[12]
Talmud Torah Yetev Lev Hackney Boys, 7–11 Satmar community school 438 pupils; DfE restriction on new admissions lifted March 2025 after standards improved.[13]
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.”[14]
Beis Rochel Mcr Girls' School Salford Girls Satmar-linked Ofsted monitoring criticised RSE / protected-characteristics teaching; Ofsted later amended LGBT wording.[15]
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

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.[16]
Beis Hamedrash Kehal Yetev Lev 42 Craven Walk, London N16 6BU From c. 2003.[16]
Beis Hamedrash D'Chasidei Satmar 57 Bethune Road, London N16 5EE From c. 2010.[16]
Beis Hamedrash Tehillois Yoel 148 Upper Clapton Road, London E5 9BA From c. 2011.[16]
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.[16]
Beis Hamedrash V'Yoel Moshe (listed historic) 67 Heathland Road, London N16 6PQ From c. 2006.[16]
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.[17]
Cong Yetev Lev D'Satmar M/C Ltd Manchester / Salford Charity 1115899; grants and religious services; income £238,120 (year to 31 August 2024).[18]
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.[19]

Charities and related companies

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.[11]
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 families to London (1990s–c. 2010) rather than to Israel.[20]

Israel and occupied territory

Israel, the Green Line 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.

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.

Inside the Green Line (Israel in the 1949 armistice sense)

Named Satmar housing and schools sit on the Israeli side of the 1949 line:

  • Shikun Satmar — north-west Jerusalem housing belt between Ezrat Torah and Tel Arza, in the same Romema / Yirmiyahu Street Haredi strip as Geula and Mea Shearim. This is west / municipal Jerusalem as Israel defined it before 1967, not a named East Jerusalem settlement.
  • Mea Shearim / Geula — historic Old Yishuv and Edah street grid; Satmar and Edah batei din, kashrut offices and draft protests concentrate here.
  • Bnei Brak — Aaron-leaning Satmar families and yeshivas; Israel proper.
  • Elad and Beit Shemesh (including Ramat Beit Shemesh) — satellite Haredi towns inside the Green Line; small Satmar presence among a mixed Haredi population.

Keren Hatzolah’s published purpose is support for yeshivas and poor households that refuse Israeli government stipends. In practice that money follows Edah / Satmar institutions in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak. Charity filings in the US and UK name “Israel”; they do not publish a line-by-line split of grants inside the Green Line versus East Jerusalem or the West Bank.

Over the Green Line: what Satmar does and does not do

Satmar does not found or brand settler towns comparable to Beitar Illit or Modiin Illit (Kiryat Sefer), the giant Haredi cities built after 1967 on occupied West Bank land and now among the largest settlements. Those cities are Agudah / Lithuanian / mixed-Hasidic housing markets, not Satmar courts. Aaron Teitelbaum has blamed Jews “living in the territories” for the violence that follows, a line consistent with opposing Religious-Zionist (and, by extension, mass Haredi) settlement while still funding anti-draft Haredi life in the land of Israel.[21]

Activity that does cross the Green Line is institutional and ritual, not a Satmar municipal project:

Occupied territory and East Jerusalem
Place Status Satmar / Edah activity
Western Wall / Old City holy sites Occupied East Jerusalem (taken 1967) After the 1967 war Teitelbaum forbade prayer at the Wall and other captured sites in Al Ha-Geulah ve-Al Ha-Temurah, arguing that worship there would confer legitimacy on the state. That ban is a Satmar rule about occupied ground; it is the opposite of Religious-Zionist pilgrimage.
Municipal East Jerusalem (shops, hotels, shemita produce, arba minim) Occupied East Jerusalem under Israeli municipal annexation Edah HaChareidis Badatz kashrut supervision runs city-wide. Hotels and food businesses in central and East Jerusalem carry Edah hechsherim. That is commercial-religious jurisdiction across the Green Line, not a Satmar housing estate.
Ramat Shlomo, Neve Yaakov, Ramot (east sections), Givat Ze'ev East Jerusalem / West Bank settlement belt Haredi neighbourhoods over the line. Edah-type households live there; Satmar does not advertise a named kehillah as it does Shikun Satmar.
Beitar Illit, Modiin Illit / Kiryat Sefer West Bank settlements Largest Haredi settler cities. Edah umbrella literature lists members in Kiryat Sefer and Beitar Illit. Those are other courts’ and Litvish families’ housing. Satmar leadership publicly treats “the territories” as a Religious-Zionist error, not a Satmar mitzvah.
Draft resistance / CRC–Edah protests Students live on both sides of the line Anti-conscription campaign (including the 2025 “Cry of the Exile” in New York) covers yeshiva boys wherever they are registered in “Eretz Yisrael,” including settlement yeshivas. The demand is exemption from the IDF, not a Satmar flag over Beitar.

How to read the map

Satmar’s named geography in the country is west Jerusalem plus Bnei Brak, Elad and Beit Shemesh — Green Line Israel — plus an Edah presidency that historically claimed the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem as a whole. Its doctrine treats 1967 conquest as illegitimate, forbids using the Kotel as a Zionist shrine, and funds those who will not take state money. Its money (Keren Hatzolah, Yeitev Lev Eretz Israel Ltd and related UK/US vehicles) is declared for “Israel” without a public Green Line / OPT ledger. Its people overlap the Edah world, some of whom live in East Jerusalem neighbourhoods and in Beitar / Modiin Illit. That overlap is not the same as Satmar building settlements.

Elsewhere

Antwerp; São Paulo; Melbourne; Argentina.

Orientation to Zionism

Satmar anti-Zionism is not quiet non-recognition. Vayoel Moshe and Al Ha-Geulah treat the state as heresy that delays redemption: a golden-calf / false-messiah test. Shaul Magid stresses that Joel Teitelbaum almost never names Zionist thinkers; he writes in beit-midrash idiom against minim and apikorsim for an ultra-Orthodox audience tempted after the Holocaust and 1967. Magid argues that Abraham Isaac Kook and Teitelbaum both read Zionism messianically: Kook as a necessary secular husk to be transvalued; Teitelbaum as the satanic prelude that must be refused or redemption will come only through catastrophe. Teitelbaum’s lineage runs through Hayyim Elazar Shapira of Munkacz, the Old Yishuv, early Neturei Karta, Elhanan Wasserman and interwar Lubavitch anti-Zionism — but only he built a full political theology and rejected Agudat Yisrael’s pragmatic seating in Zionist institutions as service of the calf.[1]

Menachem Keren-Kratz notes that for the first post-Holocaust years Teitelbaum was almost alone among prominent rabbis in holding the pre-war Transylvanian hard line; he preached in Der Yid before putting the system in book form in 1959 when he judged Haredi opinion to be softening.[1]

Aaron Teitelbaum, addressing Nassau Coliseum, later rebuked Hasidim for admiring Israeli military and political “accomplishments”: “We have no part in Zionism. We have no part in their wars. We have no part in the State of Israel.” He rejected any compromise on drafting yeshiva students.[3] The Jewish Chronicle has insisted that Satmar theology also forbids backing PLO, Islamist or far-left campaigns against Jews: Joel Teitelbaum called such organisations antisemitic murderers.[2]

In October 2025 the Central Rabbinical Congress called a “Cry of the Exile” rally at the Israeli consulate in New York against IDF draft enforcement; both Satmar rebbes urged attendance, a rare wartime protest against the state rather than silence.[22]

Satmar and Neturei Karta

Some Neturei Karta members come from Satmar families. The court repeatedly draws a line: anti-Zionism is not alliance with Holocaust deniers or with those who praise attacks on Israeli civilians.

In 2006 Satmar issued a placard against seven Neturei Karta figures who attended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust-denial conference in Tehran, ordering shunning for “walk[ing] hand in hand with the Arabs” and belittling the murdered.[23]

In November 2023 Zalman Teitelbaum attacked Neturei Karta demonstrations in New York “in support of Hamas”: walking “together with the Arabs… who shout… and support the murders” in shtreimel and bekishe was a “terrible desecration of the name of heaven.” Reports noted that Satmar still funds Haredi institutions that refuse Israeli budgets, yet unlike Neturei Karta it keeps ties with pro-Zionist Haredi communities for welfare and politics.[24]

Relations with other Orthodox and Hasidic groups

  • Agudat Yisrael / United Torah Judaism — theological opponents (state funding, Knesset, Council of Torah Sages). Satmar still inhabits the same Haredi street and sometimes coordinates American pressure against the draft with UTJ’s Israeli agenda.
  • Religious Zionism / Abraham Isaac Kook heirs — the foil of Al Ha-Geulah; settlement in “the territories” is blamed for war, not blessed as atchalta de-geulah.
  • Chabad-Lubavitch — shunned by Satmar-type Hasidim as modernised and media-savvy; not treated as a peer court.[25]
  • Skver — fellow Hungarian-style stringency (New Square). The two have aligned as New York voting outliers, e.g. endorsing Kathy Hochul against a wider Orthodox tilt to Lee Zeldin.[26]
  • 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.

Satmar and Chabad-Lubavitch

Satmar and Chabad-Lubavitch are the two largest organised Hasidic projects in the postwar United States, and they are ideological opposites. Satmar built an insulated Yiddish enclave in Williamsburg and later Kiryas Joel. Chabad, from 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, built a global network of shluchim aimed at non-observant Jews. Joel Teitelbaum treated other Jews who accepted Zionism or modern Hebrew as heretics to be fenced off; Menachem Mendel Schneerson treated them as a field for outreach.[27]

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.[28] 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.[29]

The same split runs through language. Teitelbaum’s essay on lashon ha-kodesh treats modern Hebrew as a Zionist garment of impurity. Chabad uses modern Hebrew freely in Israel and in outreach.[29]

Street conflict, 1977

The theological quarrel became a neighbourhood quarrel in Brooklyn. The New York Times reported that in spring 1977 Satmar and Lubavitch Hasidim fought in the streets over Israel and “neighbourhood sanctity.” A candy store was burned, a caravan stoned, Israeli flags burned, a rabbi hung in effigy. Lubavitch support for the Entebbe raid was the ideological trigger; a Lubavitch Lag BaOmer march of about 2,000 into Williamsburg on 9 April met a Satmar crowd of similar size on Bedford Avenue. Each side accused the other of assault.[30]

Geography still encodes the split: Satmar-majority South Williamsburg versus Chabad-majority Crown Heights. Satmar literature treats Chabad’s media presence and comfort with secular institutions as a form of Modern Orthodoxy in Hasidic dress, not as a peer court.

Messianism

After Schneerson’s death in 1994 a Chabad meshichist stream proclaimed him the Messiah. Satmar messianism runs the other way: Zionism is the false messiah that must be refused so that the true redemption can arrive. The two courts therefore accuse each other of corrupting the idea of Mashiach — Chabad by attaching it to a dead rebbe and to the Israeli state, Satmar by making anti-Zionism itself a redemptive test.[28]

What they still share

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.


Voting bloc, Skver and the Williamsburg courts

Williamsburg Satmar under Moshe Dovid Niederman and the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn (UJO) is routinely described as New York City’s largest Orthodox voting bloc. Endorsements track yeshiva regulation, welfare and street safety more than Israel policy.

In June 2025 the main Williamsburg court (Zalman Teitelbaum) plus Pupa, Vizhnitz, Vien, Tzelim, Nitra, Krasna, Skver and Klausenburg endorsed Andrew Cuomo for mayor, after Satmar Ahronim (Aaron Teitelbaum) 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.[31]

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.[32] 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.[33][34] 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.[35]

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. 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.[36][37]

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.
  • 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.
  • Tzelim (Tzelem) — Williamsburg partner named on the Cuomo slate.
  • Belz — neighbourhood partner in some slates. This is street politics. In 1979 Satmar students wrecked a Belz synagogue in Williamsburg in a fight over religious courts in Israel; the courts have long disagreed about Agudat Yisrael and Israeli institutions even when they share Bedford Avenue.
  • Skver — New Square votes with Satmar when the issue is Albany and yeshivas; it is not a Williamsburg street court.

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

Notable people

See also

External links

Further reading

  • Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
  • Yechezkel Yossef Weisshaus, The Rebbe, Machon Lev Avos / Israel Book Shop, 2008.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Shaul Magid, The Satmar Are Anti-Zionist. Should We Care? Tablet, 21 May 2020.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Jewish Chronicle, Time to stop the Shraga Stern farce The Jewish Chronicle.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Times of Israel, Head of Satmar Hasidic sect castigates followers for admiring Israel, IDF Times of Israel.
  4. ↑ Glenn C. Altschuler, Satmar’s micro-society: Kiryas Joel is a mirror of the American people Jerusalem Post, 27 January 2022.
  5. ↑ Census Reporter, Kiryas Joel, NY ACS 2024 5-year, accessed September 2026.
  6. ↑ The Yeshiva World, Historic White House visit The Yeshiva World, 4 September 2026.
  7. ↑ Shul Map, Williamsburg Shuls accessed September 2026.
  8. ↑ Shtetl, Satmar community touts 24,000 students Shtetl, 12 December 2023.
  9. ↑ New York Times, report on Teitelbaum succession The New York Times, 25 April 2006.
  10. ↑ K. Revue, Postcard from Canvey Island accessed September 2026.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Charity Commission accounts, The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust 281371, year ended 31 December 2024.
  12. ↑ Powerbase / GIAS listing for Beis Rochel D'Satmar School, Bethune Road.
  13. ↑ The Jewish Chronicle, DfE lifts sanctions against Chasidic school in Stamford Hill, 21 March 2025.
  14. ↑ Giving is Great / Charity Commission, Beis Ruchel D'Satmar (London) Limited 1125988.
  15. ↑ The Jewish Chronicle, Ofsted admits error, 17 May 2026.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 JCR-UK, Satmar Beth Hamedrash Kehal Yetev Lev.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, KH D'SATMAR LTD 1160643.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, CONG YETEV LEV D'SATMAR M/C LTD 1115899.
  19. ↑ JCR-UK, Canvey Island Jewish Community.
  20. ↑ Ben Weich, Satmar Chasidim and Yemenite families in Stamford Hill The Jewish Chronicle, 3 October 2019.
  21. ↑ The Yeshiva World, Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel: it's their fault for living in the territories The Yeshiva World.
  22. ↑ Times of Israel, Central Rabbinical Congress coverage of October 2025 rally.
  23. ↑ Ynet, Satmar slams Neturei Karta over Iran conference Ynet News, 2006.
  24. ↑ Jewish Press, Satmar Rebbe condemns Neturei Karta for supporting Hamas murders The Jewish Press, 13 November 2023.
  25. ↑ Forward, Blurring out Satmar history The Forward.
  26. ↑ The Yeshiva World, Outliers: Skver joins Satmar in endorsing Hochul The Yeshiva World.
  27. ↑ Jewish Currents, The Making of Satmar Williamsburg, 8 May 2026.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Shaul Magid, The Satmar Are Anti-Zionist. Should We Care? Tablet, 21 May 2020.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Ariel Evan Mayse, “The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism,” in the Brill collection on American Hasidism, 2020.
  30. ↑ New York Times, Hasidim in Brooklyn Feuding Over Israel and Neighborhood Sanctity, 1 June 1977.
  31. ↑ Andrew Cuomo campaign, Cuomo receives major endorsement from Satmar Williamsburg June 2025.
  32. ↑ Matthew Kassel, The high-stakes battle for the Skver vote Jewish Insider, 29 October 2024.
  33. ↑ Jacob Kornbluh, In close race, Hochul walks a fine line on yeshiva education The Forward, 2 November 2022.
  34. ↑ VINnews, After stunning victory, Republicans work to build relationship with New Square’s leaders, 15 November 2022.
  35. ↑ Matthew Kassel, Trump and Hasidic rabbis discuss housing, prison reform and family tax credits Jewish Insider, 3 September 2026.
  36. ↑ United Jewish Organizations, Executive Director.
  37. ↑ United Jewish Organizations, home page, accessed 2026.
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