It remains an extremely homogeneous community, where religious or cultural deviance is punished, sometimes harshly. On one side stood the vision of America as a country dedicated to integration and inclusivity. When there is an event for women, like a fundraiser for a charity, it usually has entertainment for the kids. He helped people quietly, without seeking any recognition, Spielman adds. You will be like that fancy girl in the class who told you that if you leave your gum out overnight, the flavor comes back and you can start on it all over again. A Hasidic girls acting group had rented out their auditorium, and we all were bused there for a very rare play. Along with the COVID-19 testing station, Spielman says a drive-thru has also been established in the village: one giving out food. Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality with its own elected local government. The new wells boosted the village's overall water supply to 2.8 million gallons per day as an interim step while the village continues building a 13.5-mile pipeline to tap New York City's Catskill Aqueduct. With their leader testing positive for COVID-19 last week, the community is taking unprecedented steps to contain the outbreak Young members of the Kiryas Joel community in 2014. Its population grew steadily: from 2,000 in 1980, to 13,000 in 2000, to 25,000 in 2019. The Emergency Management Office of Kiryas Joel a coalition of government and private organizations dedicated to informing the community about the current crisis wrote to Zelenko on Tuesday, asking him to stop speaking on behalf of the community. It wasnt normal to wear a housecoat in Walmart, no, it just wasntno no no! Wow wow. In his speech, Teitelbaum expressed fury that fellow Jews are the source of much of the pressure. Actually, I pointed out, Eastern Europe wasnt anything like that, least of all the Romanian city of Satu Mare, the home base of the Satmar. Due to our many sins, its very painful to talk about it, there stood up several worthless people from our own who have studied in Hasidic yeshivas, and sadly they arrived I dont want to say where. Myers and Stolzenberg meticulously describe the major events and lawsuits that defined the early history of [Kiryas Joel], and the personalities that shaped each one. The streets of suburban-ish condos are filled with Little Tykes bikes and Bigwheels and wagons and scooters, and during summer afternoons the outdoors is swarming with children and the sounds of screeching and crying and having fun. By Lisa W. Foderaro. recommend [American Shtetl] to anyone seriously interested not only in the central topic of religious diversity, whether in the United States or elsewhere, but also the various uses (and abuses) of litigation. As a result, the median age (under 12) is the lowest in the country and the household size (nearly six) is the highest. One friend scolded me in front of a group of women for not dressing up to shop at Walmart. Kiryas Joel became smaller and harsher and lonelier with time until I finally left. Police Probe Video of Ultra-Orthodox Principal Kissing Boy in Kiryas Joel School: Report, Hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel Agrees To End Gender Segregation at Park, An illustrated edition of an anonymous Yiddish poem about the Purim story. The Grumet case was about more than just that one public school, write the authors, as it pit two competing visions of America against each other. Map showing village of Kiryas Joel within Monroe and areas proposed for annexation. Still, the Census Bureaus latest poverty estimates, based on the 2005-9 American Community Survey released last year, do not take into account the communitys tradition of philanthropy and no-interest loans. With their leader testing positive for COVID-19 last week, the community is taking unprecedented steps to contain the outbreak. [2], In July 2016, an Airmont, New York man and father of 5 named Binyamin Gottlieb, alleged to having had a history of forcing gets, introduced the pair to Joe Levin, an informant whose real name was Avraham Lehrer. Crime is virtually nonexistent. These are bad times for us Jews, terrible. Wed bond over the confusion, the confidential mystery of do-you-know and do-you-think and do-you-believe-it and shush. Hes paying too much for transportation to his job, and he had had an unexpected expense that forced him into debt., William E. Rapfogel, chief executive of the Metropolitan Jewish Council on Poverty, said, Sure, there are probably people taking advantage and people in the underground economy getting benefits theyre not entitled to, but there are also a lot of poor people., Mr. Szegedin, the village administrator, said critics tended to forget that state taxpayers were generally spared because thousands of village children are enrolled in religious schools. Median family income ($17,929) and per capita income ($4,494) rank lower than any other comparable place in the country. "Some of the things that make American Shtetl so special is the attention to detail, the fresh perspective, and the respect for the subject matter. The state has let Kiryas Joel use that well in the past on an emergency basis to supplement its other sources. I dont want to be judgmental, Mr. Szegedin added. . Indeed, a community like Kiryas Joel could never have existed in Europe. "Martha Minow, author of When Should Law Forgive? 1 project in the community was raising funds for food., Mr. Steinberg recalled encountering a neighbor soliciting help door-to-door last fall: He had received two shut-off notices from his utility company, hes behind with tuition and that his food stamps gets used up before the end of the month. They would love to see the better earners of the community relocate as well to balance the situation, but why would they?. In 2020, the village will secede from the town of Monroe, under which it has been until now, and become a town in its own right called Palm Tree (named for the Teitelbaum dynasty). Whats it to you? I would say some are deprived. Satmars assimilation into America manifested in countless other areas too, all well documented in this volume. Literally everyone was Hasidic. Directions. No prices have been set. The signal at Route 105 and Bakertown Road is set to be installed within a couple weeks. *As of January 2020, Kiryas Joel is now its own town of Palm Tree. Without any electronics, without any TV, with very few trips out of the confines of our bubble, it was all about friendships. Publication of the video, which generated a firestorm in Orthodox circles, came the same week that a New York State legislator, Ellen Jaffee, introduced a bill that would bring better enforcement of state rules that require non-public schools, including yeshivas, to ensure they are providing education that is substantially equivalent to that offered in public schools. As of Tuesday, there were 411 confirmed cases in Orange County. of Southern California Gould School of Law) and Myers (Univ. Indeed, Kiryas Joel was not merely the beneficiary of the rise of conservative jurisprudence but constituted the most important judicial battle that changed the law in its favor. In last weeks FBI raid, investigators confiscated computer equipment and boxes of documents from the villages Department of Public Safety and its main yeshiva, United Talmudical Academy. Though Dr. Zelenko is not a specialist in infectious diseases, nor an expert in epidemiology, he has taken to filming almost daily videos posted to YouTube on this crisis, referring to the Kiryas Joel community, that have been widely disseminated outside of our community, the letter said. (Uriel Heilman) Adding to the pressure, on Tuesday, the New York Daily News and WNYC public radio published and broadcast a joint investigative story scrutinizing the outsized number of low-income, Section 8 housing vouchers that have gone to the Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn a Satmar neighborhood with close ties to Kiryas Joel. On July 27, 2017, Liebowitz pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion. Data and specific numbers relating to the spread of the coronavirus in Kiryas Joel have been difficult to find, and much misinformation has been circulating online. Kiryas Joel is one of the poorest cities in the country, suffering four times the national rate of poverty with over 93% of its residents on Medicaid. See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs. "Paul Horwitz, author of First Amendment Institutions, 41 William Street Two months earlier, the FBI had been in the village investigating alleged fraud of a government program, and community leaders also have been facing a mounting campaign by dissidents to increase state oversight of yeshiva curricula. Kiryas Joel is one of the poorest cities in the country, suffering four times the national rate of poverty with over 93% of its residents on Medicaid. KIRYAS JOEL, N.Y. For some longtime combatants, it had nearly the sweep and significance of an announcement that a hard-won peace agreement was finally at . One of them was 102-year-old Liba Ettel Silberstein from Williamsburg. The 1,600-unit Veyoel Moshe Gardens project has been taking shape on a hillside overlooking Route 17 since 2018, filling part of a 70-acre peninsula of Kiryas Joel that used to be woods. In response, Democrats and Republicans in Monroe double down to create an opposing voting bloc, building on the group United Monroe, which was originally formed to protest the town of Monroes purchase of a theater, and is led by Emily Convers. Kiryas Joels unlikely ranking results largely from religious and cultural factors. Most residents, raised as Yiddish speakers, do not speak much English. . [2] Gottlieb delivered the payment, and discussed the possibility of luring the victim to Puerto Rico. In both documentaries, a population in a rather unremarkable area must come to terms with a cohesive community whose culture and way of life are very different. Kiryas Joel leaders closed all synagogues, schools and mikvehs (ritual baths) last Thursday, a day after leading Satmar rabbis exempted vulnerable followers from some ritual requirements. Oh! About 70 percent of the villages 21,000 residents live in households whose income falls below the federal poverty threshold, according to the Census Bureau. Register here. Kiryas Joel ( Yiddish: , romanized : Kiryas Yoyel, Yiddish pronunciation: [kr.js j.l]; often locally abbreviated as KJ) is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States. His wife began to reach out to prominent rabbis of the community seeking permission to remarry. At the time of the film, more than 50% of the population of 22-square-mile Monroe were living on one square mile of overcrowded multi-family buildings. Kiryas Joel succeeded in achieving a remarkable degree of social isolation and local sovereignty. Monroe is where that American staple, Velveeta cheese, was invented, but the areas bigger lures are the Woodbury Commons shopping outlet and the Storm King Art Center. It opens with a detailed portrait of life in the village today: religious life, gender roles, education, politics, work, charity networks, and economy. And only Stolzenberg and Myers could have turned the extraordinarily complicated legal and political entanglements that make up this history into an accessible and fascinating story.Michael Walzer, author of The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions, "A superb, important book. According to Yeshiva World News, although it has not been confirmed, [Freund] showed and displayed all signs and symptoms of the coronavirus.. That $94 million project, meant to secure a long-term water source for Kiryas Joel, has been underway since 2013 and is more than halfway done. The book is framed from the beginning by noting the communitys political transformation in 2020. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. This is not Wild, Wild Country, though anyone who saw the Emmy Award-winning Netflix documentary series set in Oregon will recognize the us versus them aspect to this true story. CORNWALL - Kiryas Joel on Monday began laying the next segment of a 13.5-mile pipeline it started eight years ago for its marathon quest to tap New York City's Catskill Aqueduct as a long . The completion of those projects will require larger pipes to be installed for the village's two sewer trunk lines. Get a roundup of broadcast and digital premieres, special offers, and events with our weekly newsletter. The county as a whole grew by 7.6% in that decade and had about 401,000 . As many as 700 units in all are under construction and up to 500 are almost done, the project's planner told the Times Herald-Record. When I grew up and my marriage was arranged, Kiryas Joel became a more oppressive place. They delve into the roots of Satmar Hasidism and its charismatic founder, Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his journey from nineteenth-century Hungary to postWorld War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish town modeled on the shtetls of eastern Europe. It is, in a sense, a statistical anomaly, Professor Helmreich said. Spielman says Freund was a giant of chesed [kindness], and went out of his way to help in the most difficult times in life. Weve already seen their suburbanization, litigiousness, and modern political savvy. "Ben Rothke, Jewish Link, "Stolzenberg (Univ. They navigated the anti-poverty programs established by Lyndon Johnson, built alliances with political elites in both parties, worked alongside other minorities on local community boards, and even developed robust and often violent neighborhood watch groups that, like the Jewish Defense League and Black Panthers, evinced no small measure of ethnic pride. Nearly half of the villages residents with jobs work for the public or parochial schools. Its wrong to generalize when you will always find some in every community failing to understand the seriousness of this crisis.. So you dont know of the public library. New housing on the rise in Kiryas Joel. We made arts and crafts, studied for exams on proper laws of Shabbes, copied notes, and planned pranks on other girls. Over 13,000 of those cases are in New York City. But guess what: You feel secure and taken care of living in the town of Palm Tree, he says. Young members of the Kiryas Joel community in 2014. 2023 WNET. Because then I would seem even more off. It is the Satmars difference that gives Monroe residents a sense of unity. I didnt understand everything, but I understood enough. Phone: +44 1993 814500 My best friend and I, we spent hours and hours on the stairs to the basement. Id feel a rush as she disappeared, then would take my high heels off and walk in my stockings the rest of the way. It has no slums or homeless people. Within two weeks, it had fallen to 2 percent, and the . The story also noted that Hasidim are taking the vouchers with them to places outside the city, like Kiryas Joel. May 19, 2016. It was like visiting Eastern Europe a century ago.. Thats the reason for all the problems.. While the coalition noted that Zelenko is a respected physician and has been helping treat to COVID-19 patients, it added that all data indicates that the infection rate in Kiryas Joel is mirroring the rest of Orange County, and therefore should not be a cause for panic or the singling out of one community.. I cried, screamed, apologized, self-loathed, hated myself so much. According to Neuhaus, 48 percent of critical care beds are available in the county, with half of those occupied critical care beds being used for COVID-19 patients. Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved, to call for people to cancel large Passover gatherings. Tax ID: 26-2810489. It is a uniquely American Shtetl, as the title of a new book about the town by David Myers and Nomi Stolzenberg suggests. The WNYC story attributed the voucher aberration to Hasidic self-dealing thats impenetrable to outsiders and cited lawsuits arguing that the Hasidim obtain housing vouchers through unfair or unlawful means. Several hundred adults study full time at religious institutions. Monroe town hall meeting to discuss Kiryas Joel annexation plan. Because the Satmars use their own religious schools, work for their own business and keep to themselves, I knew little about them. Nowhere does what the authors call the Satmers unwitting assimilation into America appear more obviously, however, than in their decision to flee racially mixed Brooklyn to the suburbs to create a homogenous village of their own. You might be allowed to get a piece of mail that comes to your mailboxif it is innocent. Kiryas Joel accounted for almost half of Orange County's population increase of more than 28,000 from 2010 to 2020. One lawmaker, Assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun, a Republican who represents an adjacent district in Orange County, has demanded an investigation by state officials into why Kiryas Joel received grants for the center. Teitelbaum sought more seclusion from the secular world for his followers, and in 1974, bought pastoral land for Kiryas Joel, where the first 14 families settled. One famous sermon of the rebbe, the Ki sisa drusha, openly instigated these attacks. Nov. 19, 2017. We left an apartment in Suffern, NY, for a large house in a development four miles from the center of Kiryas Joel. "Lis Harris, New York Review of Books, "Anyone interested in the future of Jews in the diaspora (not only Hasidic Jews) should be grateful to [Stolzenberg and Myers] for what theyve accomplished. Aron Spielman, second from left, a co-founder of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council. The regular presence of violence in the village against those who reject the rebbes leadership slashed tires, torched cars, smashed windows, physical assault, and even death threats constitutes a steady part of this story. Become a member of THIRTEEN ($5 monthly or $60 annually) and get access to THIRTEEN Passport as our thanks for your support. "Zalman Rothschild, Los Angeles Review of Books, "I. . Wed be so confused, none the wiser from each others speculation. A documentary on PBS stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21 follows a tense, existential conflict between townspeople in a commuter haven in Orange County, NY, 50 miles north of the George Washington Bridge. There is no narrator of this film. Kiryas Joel's majority party is known as Anash and led by Gedalye Szegedin, administrator of the village of 33,000 people. The insular, close-knit religious group of Satmar Hasidic Jews in Kiryas Joel seek more room for their rapidly growing population. To avoid stigmatizing poorer young couples or instilling guilt in parents, the chief rabbi recently decreed that diamond rings were not acceptable as engagement gifts and that one-man bands would suffice at weddings. . We use the crisis as another opportunity to reach out and assist others in need, he says. David Jolly, the social services commissioner for Orange County, also said that while the number of people receiving benefits seemed disproportionately high, the number of caseloads a family considered as a unit was much less aberrant. This perfect storm of scrutiny has community leaders on edge. The book jumps back to review the history of Satmar Hasidim relative latecomers to the Hasidic world despite today constituting its largest faction and their first rebbe, the late Joel Teitelbaum , after whom the village is named. (Albany provides about $5 million of Kiryas Joels $16 million public school budget. Directions, 99 Banbury Road This exploitation of a crisis and a community is unacceptable, because it fuels anti-Semitism and only exacerbates a problem, making it only more difficult to manage, it continued. They took their wigs to the wig maker regularly and wore sweet little hats, and they carried on with the charade dutifully. Sometimes I couldnt resist, and I stole to satiate myself. The entire community is an institution revolving around the kids. Ive been to those yeshivas, I know exactly what the effects are, said Naftuli Moster, executive director of Yaffed, an organization he founded that lobbies lawmakers to force Orthodox yeshivas to offer quality secular studies in addition to Torah studies. American Shtetl is riveting.Rabbi Sharon Brous, Founder/Senior Rabbi, IKAR, The Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel is not as anomalous as it looks. *, To live in Kiryas Joel is to live in one of the most child-centric communities imaginable. I was so ashamed, yet so indignant. There was a thrill as wed all stand under the streetlight deeply ensconced in the high drama and gossip of who wore what and which teacher showed up and who was right about why so-and-so got divorced; did a matchmaker stare at us, was that why she stood there as we danced in the circle? Its name, meaning the Village of Joel, references the Satmar Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum who died before I was born when the village was in its infancy. 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That movement pushed the effort to promote Christian values in the public sphere against the earlier ethos of integration and liberal humanism, an effort that began to bear fruit with the election of Ronald Reagan and has since transformed the American judiciary. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful. Liebowitz then laughed and said he would carry on as if he knew nothing, letting the blame fall to Goldberg and the wife's family. But at the same time, the concept of pikuach nefesh [saving a human life] is more important than any mitzvoth.. Kiryas Joel recently got state approval for two new wells in Monroe and Woodbury that will enable it to serve the initial occupants of Veyoel Moshe Gardens, removing what could have been another obstacle to their moving in. Monroe resident Jessica Pantalemon stopped to cash a check in Kiryas Joel wearing a bright pink tank top and. 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