Mayor De Blasio Reportedly Questioned By Feds on Satmar Ties
New York City’s mayor met for several hours Friday with federal authorities looking into allegations that donors to his mayoral campaign were promised favors.
A Rabbi In Iran The Neturei Karta’s Fight Against Israel
The two-day Sixth International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada held on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Iranian capital of Tehran was a great opportunity to spout anti-Israel rhetoric for opponents to the Jewish state, including for a select few ultra-Orthodox Jews.
How A Satmar Hasidic Rabbi Came Out As Trans Woman
NEW YORK – Abby Stein is almost certainly the only ordained Hasidic rabbi who is also a woman.
A ‘Modern Slave Market’: How Day Laborers Are Exploited By Satmar Hasidism In Williamsburg
NEW YORK – Autumn in this city illustrates vividly how deceitful the sun can be.
Hasidic Man Arrested At JFK and Charged In Satmar Kidnapping Plot
Federal prosecutors have charged a third Hasidic man in an alleged conspiracy to kidnap a man who had refused to release his wife from marriage.
NYC Councilman Successfully Takes on Neturei Karta At Anti-BDS Hearing
Police ejected dozens of disruptive anti-Israel protesters from the New York City Council chamber during a debate on whether to adopt a resolution condemning boycotts of the Jewish State on Thursday.
Orthodox Rabbi, Woman Plotted To Kidnap and Kill Husband Who Wouldn’t Grant Her A Religious Divorce
An Israeli rabbi and an acolyte from an Orthodox Jewish community upstate were charged by the feds Tuesday in a scheme to kidnap and kill a fellow member of their sect for refusing to grant his wife a religious divorce.
In Brooklyn, Stifling Higher Learning Among Hasidic Women
In the mid-1940s, Joel Teitelbaum, an eminent and charismatic rabbi, immigrated to the United States, colonizing a section of Williamsburg in Brooklyn for his Hasidic sect, the Satmar, its name taken from the Hungarian town of Szatmar, where Rabbi Teitelbaum had fought to resist the encroachments of a modernizing society.
Satmar Decree Bars Women From Higher Education
Hasidic rabbis from the Satmar sect reportedly have issued a decree barring women from pursuing higher education.
Satmar Va’ad Hatznius Blasted Calvin Klein For Underwear Ad
Kiryas Joel – Satmar Hasidic Va’ad Hatznius, or modesty patrol, the self-appointed arbiters of right and wrong in the Satmar community.