A dramatic political rift erupted inside the Satmar Hasidic community Sunday after a rogue endorsement of Democratic ...

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The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, survived the inferno of Europe and built a spiritual empire in America. His searing theology was crystal clear: Zionism was not only a secular rebellion ...

For years now, the Hasidic community has feigned compliance with New York State Education laws. While Hasidic yeshivot don’t typically provide much secular education at all, they have at least claimed ...

Congressman Lee Zeldin vs. Governor Kathy Hochul. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar and the chief rabbi of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York, is urging his ...

Satmar defends its political deals with anti-Israel figures by invoking “Torah values” — claiming to prioritize yeshiva funding, welfare benefits, or community protection over Israel’s fate. This is a ...

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 heads ...

Nearly 20,000 are expected to celebrate community's revival and marvelous growth of its yeshiva system - defying its detractors and naysayers and challenging environment - at Satmar's largest annual ...

Satmar rebbe vilifies Skoufis as 'wicked and evil' Assemblyman and senator-elect James Skoufis was castigated as a villain of biblical proportions last week when Satmar Grand Rebbe Aaron Teitelbaum ...

The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum (in white), dancing at a wedding in Israel, January 23, 2013. The wedding scheduled for this Monday of the grandchild of the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Zalman ...

Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum of Kiryas Joel said Satmar did not recognize President Truman's recognition of Israel as the Jewish state in 1948 and nothing has changed. (JTA) — The head of a Satmar Hasidic ...

We bounce, five ultra-Orthodox Jewish Satmars and me, through Williamsburg in a white SUV late one Sunday night in hot pursuit of Moses Friedman, the white-bearded gabbai (royal adviser) to Rebbe ...