In fact, a community such as Kiryas Joel could not have taken rise in Europe, where the Satmar Hasidim came from. America’s dual commitments to religious freedom and private property allowed ...

Each of the three neighborhoods is home to Hasidim of different courts, although there is overlap and movement between them. There are approximately forty-five thousand Satmar Hasidim in ...

Satmar ideology holds that there should not be a Jewish state and the Jews should remain in exile until the redemption, or coming of the Messiah. Zalman Teitelbaum was in Israel to present the ...

Estimates in the mid-1960s put the number of Hasidim in New York City at between forty and fifty thousand, with the Satmar the largest group at 1,300 families, the Belz, Bobov, Klausenberg ...