Satmar

The critics saw hassidim, but the White House saw American Jewish leaders - opinion

Wherever we live, in Israel or America, however we vote, however we pray, we are one people. We can disagree, and we will, but we will still be able to wish each other a Shana tova.

US President Donald Trump meets with Reb Aharon Teitelbaum and Reb Zalman Leib Teitelbaum at the White House. September 4, 2026.
US President Donald Trump meets with Reb Aharon Teitelbaum and Reb Zalman Leib Teitelbaum at the White House. September 4, 2026.

Trump meeting brings estranged Satmar Rebbes face to face for first time in decades

Martin Marks, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Jewish Engagement.

Editor's Notes: The man who decides which Jews the president hears - comment

A general view of the White House in Washington, DC, US, July 20, 2025.

Trump to meet anti-Israel Hasidic rebbes at White House, raising concerns over IDF draft


Boys in hasidic schools regularly beaten, denied basic secular education - NYT

A year-long investigation into the New York hasidic school system by The New York Times found that the children in these schools were suffering from severe educational deprivation.

 An Orthodox Jewish boy walks by a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City, April 9, 2019.

Several Americans wounded in Jerusalem terror attack

According to reports, the four US citizens injured in the attack are visiting Israel from their neighborhood of Williamsburg, New York.

 Israeli security forces at the scene of a shooting attack outside Jerusalem Old City, August 14,2022.

In Brooklyn, some rabbis ask followers to turn down free food from ‘Zionists’

Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community is warning followers not to accept food from the Met Council or the Zionist charity United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg.

 Volunteers helped distribute food at a Satmar distribution center in Williamsburg, April 10, 2022.

How Satmar Hasidim used liberal values to create an American theocracy

Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village in Upstate New York, is an enclave of Satmer Hasidim that has their own legal traditions and customs.

Satmar Hasidim in the Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue in the town of Kiryas Joel, New York

Grapevine November 10, 2021: Americans of the Mosaic persuasion

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion at the unveiling of the street exhibition of photographs to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the President's Residence.

Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture in gentrified Brooklyn

There’s a variety of reasons why they end up becoming distanced, and they see it as a way of protecting themselves and their community from negative influences.

A man arrives at a mass gathering of Satmar Hasidic Jews in the Brooklyn borough of New York December 2, 2015

Thousands attend Hasidic wedding in Brooklyn, many from Europe and Israel

The wedding is the latest example of the lack of compliance in Hasidic communities with protocols meant to stop the spread of the coronavirus

Thousands gathered for the wedding of the son of Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, grand rabbi of a faction of the Bobov Hasidic sect

Rabbi Teitelbaum, Satmar Hasidic leader, tests positive for COVID-19

The Satmar community has been implicated in a number of large gatherings over the last several months, in defiance of state and city guidelines.

The Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg Zalman Lieb Teitelbaum speaking to French Jews, July 2017

Letters to the Editor December 9, 2020: Samaria semantics

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

‘We are not Americans,’ says Satmar grand rabbi

Despite these comments, Satmar hassidim, including the grand rabbi himself, were overtly political during the recent presidential election.

The Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg Zalman Lieb Teitelbaum speaking to French Jews, July 2017