Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)
Institutions
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 Jews from Iran and Yemen. Keren Hatzolah is a charitable fund to support yeshivas and the poor in Israel, providing for those who shun government benefits.
Teitelbaum founded a network of large educational institutions, both 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.[1] 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.
Senior yeshivas include the United Talmudical Seminary and Yeshivas Maharit D'Satmar. [2] Satmar also operates its own rabbinical courts, which settle various issues within the community by the principles of Jewish Law.
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.
UK
Schools in the UK
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
Resources
- https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/jewish-world/2022/05/the-specter-of-satmar/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/03/nyregion/guard-set-for-belz-rabbi-as-hasidic-tension-grows.html
