Kiryas Joel, New York
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Kiryas Joel is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 32,954 at the 2020 census, approximately 5% of the estimated 712,000 popul
Kiryas Joel in 2006
The main synagogue in Kiryas Joel
A bilingual bus stop sign in English and Yiddish.
Satmar
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Satmar is a group in Hasidic Judaism founded in 1905 by Joel Teitelbaum in the city of Szatmárnémeti in the Kingdom of Hungary, which was called Satmar in Yiddish. It is a branch of the Siget Hasidic
Kiryas Joel, New York
…Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area. The vast majority of its residents are Yiddish-speaking Hasidic Jews who belong to the worldwide Satmar sect of Hasidism. According to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, Kiryas Joel has by far the youngest median age population of any municipality…
The main Satmar synagogue in Kiryas Joel, New York
Joel Teitelbaum bowing before King Carol II of Romania, 1936
Zalman Teitelbaum, 2007
The book Vayoel Moshe, where Teitelbaum lays out his opposition to Zionism