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Satmar Hasidim

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani arrives at the National Action Network (NAN) Annual Thanksgiving Feeding event in Harlem, New York City, on November 27, 2025. (Kena Betancur / AFP)
December 12, 2025, 7:31 pm
After meeting Mamdani, leading NY rabbi says ‘deeply’ worried about next 4 years
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch says he was ‘pleased’ to meet with mayor-elect, but remains concerned about his ‘harsh ideological anti-Zionism’
By Luke Tress
Ultra-Orthodox men attend a protest against the effort to draft their Israeli counterparts to the IDF, outside the Israeli consulate in New York, October 19, 2025. (Screen capture: X/Jewish Voice)
October 20, 2025, 3:16 pm
Thousands of Haredim attend ‘Cry of the Exile’ rally in New York against IDF draft
Organizers say 100,000 people protest outside Israeli consulate, heeding call of leading anti-Zionist North American rabbis including rival brother leaders of Satmar Hasidic sect
By AP and ToI Staff
Dual American-Israeli citizen Yaakov Perl, an alleged spy for Iran who was arrested by authorities on September 4, 2025, speaks at an anti-Israel protest in Rabat, Morocco on November 9, 2023. (Screenshot/Youtube)
September 25, 2025, 5:35 pm
American-Israeli man charged with spying for Iran on Ben Gvir, ex-IDF chief
Yaakov Perl, a Satmar Hasid who unsuccessfully sought asylum in the Islamic Republic, indicted on espionage charges after allegedly staking out the homes of top officials
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Satmar Rebbe Zalman Teitelbaum visits the northern Israeli city of Safed on November 21, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
December 16, 2022, 11:50 am
Satmar head visits convicted sexual abuser Nechemya Weberman in NY prison
Sex abuse survivor says victims feel they are ‘being stabbed’ when they witness support by Hassidic community leaders, media for perpetrators of crimes
By Jacob Henry
Illustrative: A man walks by school bus with Yiddish signage in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 11, 2022, 3:21 pm
New York Times publishes Hasidic school investigation in Yiddish, too
Likely the 1st time newspaper has published in Yiddish; article addresses major deficiencies in Hasidic education system that leave students unprepared for life in the US
By Ash Obel
New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a New York governor primary debate at the studios of WNBC4-TV, June, 16, 2022, in New York. (Craig Ruttle/Newsday via AP, Pool)
June 18, 2022, 6:46 am
NY governor endorsed by Satmar Hasidic movement, securing tens of thousands of votes
Both sides of divided community back Kathy Hochul, with Williamsburg faction citing her expansion of childcare, ‘understanding of religious rights’
By Jacob Henry
A Satmar Orthodox man volunteers to deliver free food provided by Met Council at a distribution center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard run by the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, on April 10, 2022. (Jacob Henry/JTA)
April 18, 2022, 3:06 am
In Brooklyn, some rabbis ask followers to turn down free food from ‘Zionists’
A faction within Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community is warning followers not to accept holiday charity from Met Council because it holds ‘all the abominations of the world’
By Jacob Henry
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams speaks to supporters, November 2, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
November 3, 2021, 5:24 pm
From Borough Park to Upper West Side: How Jews voted, and fared, in NY elections
Eric Adams elected mayor despite weak Hasidic support; Jewish Republican Inna Vernikov defeats Steven Saperstein in City Council race; Brad Lander to be next comptroller
By julia GERGELY
Police enforce a lockdown at a temporary checkpoint at the entrance to the ultra-Orthodox town of Elad on January 18, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
January 20, 2021, 6:40 pm
Blue and White accuses Likud of blocking effort to boost COVID enforcement
Claiming Netanyahu’s faction is thwarting law to increase fines for rule violators, Gantz’s party decides to hold up committee required to authorize lockdown extension
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video as police use a water cannon to disperse protesters against enforcement of a national lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2021. (Kikar Shabbat)
January 20, 2021, 2:17 pm
17 arrested as police clash with ultra-Orthodox over virus lockdown violations
Officer injured in the head from stone thrown at cruiser; water cannon brought in to disperse crowds as cops close down Jerusalem school where dozens were illegally gathered
By ToI Staff
Satmar Rebbe Zalman Teitelbaum visits the northern Israeli city of Safed on November 21, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
December 28, 2020, 4:56 am
Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, US Satmar Hasidic leader, tests positive for COVID-19
Teitelbaum said to have mild symptoms; his community has been accused of holding mass events with little regard for social distancing
By Shira Hanau
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews defy coronavirus restrictions to attend a funeral for Rabbi Yisroel Chaim Menashe Friedman, a longtime judge of the Satmar rabbinic court in Brooklyn on December 7, 2020 (Screencapture/New York Post)
December 8, 2020, 4:28 am
Thousands again defy restrictions to attend Brooklyn ultra-Orthodox funeral
Funeral for Satmar rabbinic court judge Rabbi Yisroel Chaim Menashe Friedman, 94, held at same Williamsburg synagogue where authorities barred a mass wedding in October
By Shira Hanau
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio talks during a news conference outside the Mosaic Pre-K Center on the first day of school, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, in New York. The city public schools delayed reopening for two weeks.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
November 25, 2020, 3:44 am
De Blasio fines Brooklyn Hasidic synagogue $15,000 for holding mass wedding
Invitations to Williamsburg ceremony were spread by word of mouth, with no posters advertising it on synagogue walls
By Agencies
Thousands attend the wedding of the grandson of Satmar Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum in Brooklyn on November 8, 2020. (Screencapture/YouTubue)
November 25, 2020, 2:53 am
‘Who’s not going to go?’: NY Hasidic Jews continue to hold large weddings
Defiant leaders of insular communities resent outside orders and are going to great lengths to keep holding mass weddings despite COVID-19 restrictions
By Shira Hanau
People walk through Williamsburg, one of several Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn with rising COVID-19 rates, on October 1, 2020. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
November 22, 2020, 10:05 pm
Satmar Hasidim hid massive Brooklyn wedding from public view – report
Ceremony for grandson of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum attended by thousands, arranged to avoid detection by secular authorities, according to New York Post
By PHILISSA CRAMER
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