JTA – The Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel reportedly will become the first haredi Orthodox town in the United States after voters in Monroe, New York, overwhelmingly backed a referendum on secession.
On Tuesday, over 80 percent of Monroe voters backed the measure on Kiryas Joel, a village of over 20,000 Yiddish-speaking Jews associated with the Satmar Hasidic sect, to form the state’s first new town in 35 years. The Town of Palm Tree — an English translation of the Satmar rebbe’s surname, Teitelbaum — should come into existence in 2020, unless lawmakers speed up the process.
“Today is truly an historic day that will usher in a new era of peace and stability for all the residents of Monroe,” Kiryas Joel village administrator Gedalye Szegedin said in a statement. “We would like to thank all the voters in Monroe for their overwhelming support. They chose a better path forward, one of diplomacy and compromise instead of angry rhetoric and litigation.”
Monroe officials and Kiryas Joel leaders had finalized a legal settlement in July that allowed for the creation of a new town. Both parties had clashed for years over Kiryas Joel’s rapid population growth and increasing influence over Monroe politics.
In 2015, Kiryas Joel annexed 164 acres of Monroe land and asked for over 500 more. Monroe challenged the original annexation, but both sides let their requests go through the vote. Kiryas Joel will get 56 more acres in addition to the 2015 annexation and drop its request for more.
Kiryas Joel’s roots date back to the mid-1970s, when Hasidic Jews began settling in the area under the guidance of Satmar Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum.
In the Netflix movie ‘One of Us’ they tell of how Hasidic communities deliberately deprive members of any useful skills as a form of entrapment. Then they live off welfare. We are always picking up the tab.
“We would like to thank all the ‘SUCKERS’ in Monroe for their overwhelming support. ‘WE THE CHOSEN’ have chosen a better path forward, one of diplomacy and compromise instead of angry rhetoric and litigation.”
Now let us move forward and BUILD THE WALL!! And, we are pleased to announce that the citizens of Monroe have agreed to pay for the wall through their generous tax donations. 😳
Two steps forward, one step back. It’s happening in other parts of NY State.
This may be a good thing. There depravity will be easily seen by Americans as they will not be hidden amongst the wider US population but rather out in the open in what will be a segregated Jewish only community.
Some fine comments ~ Gwaredd, i’m guessing you live nearby that self-made rat haven! as long as they pay their taxes to use any Public path… and they do.
And Edie, here in Montana the Hutterites do the same to their young’n…No School for Girls after age 10 and i doubt their taught any skills outside of egg collecting for the clan.
And Rmilsom, i think there is something to be said for keeping them in pens where we can keep an i on them ~ a place were we can send them that doesn’t evict the rightful owners to the point of genocide…