BIG article in Seattle Times worth reading. These Satmar Hasidim are also anti-Zionists and blame the holocaust on the JEWS!!
These Hasidim have had fights between the two camps with broken legs and arms, TORCHED cars and homes!!!
This group has an ENTIRE NEW YORK TOWN of KIRYAS JOEL of 19,000!!!!!! Can anyone imagine an entire town of any other religion be ALLOWED???? I don't get this.
anyone can live in Kiryas Joel--but why would you want to!.
in a certain way, us Jews are to blame for the holocaust. Jews in Germany were the MOST assimilated in the world. G-d always punishes us for trying to be like the gentiles. Today, millions of Jews don't follow the Torah and live like "the nations of the world" instead of being a "light to the nations."
Every Jewish person with a Torah education knows that our 2 temples were destroyed because of our own deeds.
The PBS DOCUMENTARY "HASIDIM IN AMERICA" (found at the PBS web site) showed that under Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society," the Hasidim were designated a "disadvantaged minority."
This designation aloowed Hasidim to became beneficiaries of federal community development funds. Federal and city assistance received over the years include CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act) monies, Section 8 housing assistance, school meal funds, Headstart, HUD grants and low interest loans.
In 1984, PBS reported, federal aid to Hasidim was expanded when the federal government included the Hasidim in a priority group of six disadvantaged minorities recognized by all federal agencies.
Tom Monaghan wants to build a Roman VCtholic town. So what?
Follow the money. This is more about who gets to control the $$$
The reason for the religious wars in Europe was that the winners got to control the assets of the losers. This is a good reason to not have your church having lots of assets -- it invites all sorts of folk to come in and try to take over so they can loot the assets