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  Ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbi dies at 91 - Boston.com
Teitelbaum, the spiritual leader of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect with tens of thousands of followers worldwide, died Monday at age 91.
Teitelbaum -- the rebbe, or grand rabbi, of the Satmar Hassidim -- died at Mount Sinai Hospital, said community leader Isaac Abraham.
Teitelbaum was born in Siget, in present-day Romania.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/04/24/rabbi_moses_teitelbaum_dies_at_age_91   (457 words)

  
  Joel Teitelbaum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Rabbi Joel (Yoel) Teitelbaum, (1887-1979), known variously as Reb Yoelish and the Satmar Rav (or Rebbe) (יואל טייטלבוים), was a prominent Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar.
Teitelbaum was rescued from death in the Holocaust during 1944 in Nazi-controlled Transylvania as a result of a deal between a Hungarian Zionist official, Rudolph Kastner, and a deputy of Adolf Eichmann.
Teitelbaum was renowned for his vocal religiously motivated opposition to all modern forms Zionism in all arenas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joel_Teitelbaum   (880 words)

  
 Kiryas Joel, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiryas Joel (or Kiryas Yo'el or Kiryat Joel or KJ) (קרית יואל, Hebrew: "Town of Joel") is a village within the Town of Monroe in Orange County, New York, United States.
It is named for and by Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the rebbe of Satmar, who encouraged the project and helped choose its location a number of years prior to his passing in 1979.
Due to the rapid population growth occurring in Kiryas Joel, resulting almost entirely from the high birth rates of its Hasidic population, the village government has undertaken various annexation efforts to expand its acreage, to the dismay of the majority of the residents of the surrounding communities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York   (1299 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Rabbi Moshe (Moses) Teitelbaum (November 1, 1914 – April 24, 2006) was a Hasidic rebbe and the world leader of the Satmar Hasidim, which is believed to be the largest Hasidic community in the world, with some 100,000 followers.
Moshe was the second son of Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, author of Atzei Chaim, the previous Sigheter Rebbe and brother of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum.
Moshe was raised by family friends and relatives, including his uncle, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, and his grandfather, Rabbi Shulem Eliezer Halberstam of Ratzfert.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Moshe_Teitelbaum   (761 words)

  
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Teitelbaum had been in the hospital since March 30, when he was admitted for an infection he developed while receiving radiation treatment for a spinal tumor.
Teitelbaum was the grand rebbe, or supreme spiritual leader, for as many as 120,000 Satmar members inhabiting tightly knit enclaves in Brooklyn, Kiryas Joel, Monsey, Montreal, London, Jerusalem and other places.
Moses Teitelbaum was born in 1914 in the Hungarian city of Sighet, the son and grandson of revered rabbis.
hydepark.hevre.co.il /hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1894801   (1705 words)

  
 wnbc.com - News - Grand Rebbe Moses Teitelbaum Dies
Teitelbaum entered the hospital on March 30 and was being treated for spinal cancer and other ailments.
Joel Teitelbaum was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps during World War II before escaping to Israel and eventually settling in Brooklyn and Kiryas Joel -- named "Village of Joel" in his honor -- after the war.
Teitelbaum had tapped Zalmen Teitelbaum to run the Williamsburg congregation and Aaron to take over the village of Kiryas Joel, but on the larger question of which one should prevail, the grand rabbi remained silent.
www.wnbc.com /news/8967881/detail.html   (976 words)

  
 wcbstv.com - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Leader Teitelbaum Dead At 91
Teitelbaum had tabbed Zalmen Teitelbaum to run the Williamsburg congregation and Aaron to take over the village of Kiryas Joel, but on the larger question of which one should prevail, the grand rabbi remained silent.
Teitelbaum took over leadership of the Satmar sect from his uncle Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, who died childless in 1979 at age 93.
Joel Teitelbaum, Moses Teitelbaum's uncle, was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps during World War II before escaping to Israel and eventually settling in Brooklyn and Kiryas Joel -- named "Village of Joel" in his honor -- after the war.
wcbstv.com /topstories/local_story_114212732.html   (812 words)

  
 Rabbi Teitelbaum, Spiritual Leader Of Satmar Chasidim, Dies at 91 - April 25, 2006 - The New York Sun
Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum, who died yesterday at 91, was the worldwide spiritual leader of the Satmar Chasidim, the fervently Orthodox Jewish sect with large congregations in Williamsburg and Kiryas Joel, in Orange County.
Teitelbaum, who had served as grand rabbi, or rebbe, since 1980, died at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was being treated for cancer.
Teitelbaum is survived by four sons, two daughters, and dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
www.nysun.com /article/31549   (548 words)

  
 13abc.com: Thousands gathered for burial of ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Teitelbaum's fl-draped casket, followed by a surging crowd of mourners, was taken to the walled cemetery for burial just before dawn.
Teitelbaum had tabbed Zalmen Teitelbaum to run the Williamsburg congregation and Aaron to take over the village of Kiryas Joel, but on the larger question of which one should prevail, the grand rabbi remained silent.
Joel Teitelbaum, Moses Teitelbaum's uncle, was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps during World War II before escaping to Israel and eventually settling in Brooklyn and Kiryas Joel - named "Village of Joel" in his honor - after the war.
abclocal.go.com /wtvg/story?section=nation_world&id=4113304   (939 words)

  
 israelinsider: Briefs: Religious authorities announce new Satmar Hasidim leader
Moses Teitelbaum led the Satmar congregation in Brooklyn after the death of his uncle, Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, in 1979.
The biggest congregations are in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood and the town of Kiryas Joel.
Moses Teitelbaum was born in Siget, in present-day Romania.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Briefs/8333.htm   (649 words)

  
 CNN.com - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish leader Teitelbaum dies - Apr 25, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Teitelbaum -- the rebbe, or grand rabbi, of the Satmar Hassidim -- died at Mount Sinai Hospital, said community leader Isaac Abraham.
Teitelbaum took over leadership of the Satmar sect from his uncle, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, who died in 1979.
Teitelbaum was born in Siget, in present-day Romania.
www.cnn.com /2006/US/04/25/obit.teitelbaum.ap   (476 words)

  
 Kiryas Joel Voice - A clearinghouse for information and communication concerning the Kiryas Joel community.
Upon the death of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum in 1979, the mantle of leadership went to his nephew, the current Grand Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum.
The Kiryas Joel School District is governed by a five-member board of education, which is elected independently of the village board.
Growth in Kiryas Joel is inevitable, based on a variety of factors stemming from the culture of the community.
www.kjvoice.com /faq.asp   (1104 words)

  
 Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum Is Dead at 91   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Moses Teitelbaum, the grand rabbi of the Satmar Hasidim, one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing sects of Orthodox Jews, died yesterday in Manhattan.
Joel Teitelbaum had transplanted the tattered remnants of Satmar from post-Holocaust Europe to Williamsburg, giving the sect new life.
Moses Teitelbaum, named for the 18th-century founder of the Satmar dynasty, Moshe Teitelbaum, was born into rabbinic royalty in Ujfeherto, in what is now eastern Hungary, on Nov. 17, 1914.
www.religionnewsblog.com /14429/rabbi-moses-teitelbaum-is-dead-at-91   (1017 words)

  
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Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, eldest son of the current Grand Rebbe, serves as the village rov (chief rabbi) and rosh yeshivah (chief authority in the parochial schools).
Children from Kiryas Joel who needed special education (including the deaf, the mentally retarded, and others suffering from a range of physical, mental, or emotional disorders) were then forced to attend public schools outside the village, which their families found highly unsatisfactory.
The separate Kiryas Joel school district is problematic in his view because "the isolation of these children, while it may protect them from 'panic, fear and trauma,' also unquestionably increased the likelihood that they would remain within the fold, faithful adherents of their parents' religious faith." Ante, at 711.
faculty.maxwell.syr.edu /tmkeck/Cases/KiryasJoelvGrumet1994.html   (17445 words)

  
 Satmar Rebbe dies at age 91
Teitelbaum had been in the hospital since March 30, when he was admitted for an infection he developed while receiving radiation treatment for a spinal tumor.
Teitelbaum was the grand rebbe, or supreme spiritual leader, for as many as 120,000 Satmar members inhabiting tightly knit enclaves in Brooklyn, Kiryas Joel, Monsey, Montreal, London, Jerusalem and other places.
Moses Teitelbaum was born in 1914 in the Hungarian city of Sighet, the son and grandson of revered rabbis.
archive.recordonline.com /archive/2006/04/24/reb.html   (904 words)

  
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Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar (Satu Mare), Transylvania, c.
Rabbi Joel(ish) Teitelbaum was a rabbi in Satu Mare from 1928 until 1944.
Rabbi Teitelbaum was a prolific author whose writings contain long polemics against the Zionism and the State of Israel and one the other hand offered an explanation from an ultra-Orthodox point of view on the reasons of the Holocaust.
www.bh.org.il /V-Exh/Romania/htmls/misc/rabbis/thirdimage.html   (84 words)

  
 Aaron Teitelbaum Information
He is the elder son of Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the late Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who is the nephew of the late Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, who founded the village of Kiryas Joel in the town of Monroe, New York.
Rabbi Teitelbaum is the son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, the Viznitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak.
Rabbi Aaron was appointed as the Chief Rabbi of the Satmar congregation in Kiryas Joel in 1984.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Aaron_Teitelbaum   (1595 words)

  
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Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum was born in 1914 into a rebbe’s family in Sighet, a Hungarian town of some 8,000 people (3,000 Jews) in the Carpathian Mountains, an area that is now Romania.
Rabbi Teitelbaum’s reign coincided with explosive growth in both Kiryas Joel, whose population is now estimated at over 18,000, and Williamsburg, whose Satmar population is thought to be over 35,000.
Kiryas Joel is one of the poorest municipalities in the state, with some 60% of its families at the poverty line, and Williamsburg reportedly has nearly half of its families in similar straits.
www.clevelandjewishnews.com /articles/2006/04/28/news/world/yrebbe0428.txt   (971 words)

  
 Kiryas Joel, New York Information
Kiryas Joel (or Kiryas Yo'el or Kiryat Joel or KJ) (קרית יואל, Hebrew: "Town of Joel") is a village within the Town of Monroe in Orange County, New York, United States.
It is named for and by Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the rebbe of Satmar, who encouraged the project and helped choose its location a number of years prior to his passing in 1979.
Due to the rapid population growth occurring in Kiryas Joel, resulting almost entirely from the high birth rates of its Hasidic population, the village government has undertaken various annexation efforts to expand its acreage, to the dismay of the majority of the residents of the surrounding communities.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York   (1309 words)

  
 A Reign Marred by Family Strife - Florida Jewish News - Jewish Newspaper in South Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He became rebbe in 1979, in the shadow of his uncle and predecessor, the rebbe Joel Teitelbaum (Reb Yoilish), the founder and looming presence of modern Satmar, whose widow Feiga was dismissive of her nephew and defiantly maintained a shadow Satmar government all her own until her death in 2001.
Rabbi Teitelbaum appointed his oldest son, Aaron, to be chief rabbi of Kiryas Joel in 1984, and Aaron tried to eliminate a dissident faction there that shared the Rebbetzin Feiga's scorn.
Kiryas Joel is one of the poorest municipalities in the state, with some 60 percent of its families at the poverty line, and Williamsburg reportedly has nearly half of its families in similar straits.
floridajewishnews.com /News/National/A_Reign_Marred_by_Family_Strife_20060428353   (1597 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Rabbi's death spurs power struggle
The fl-draped coffin of Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum is carried through frenetic throngs of Hasidic Jews at the Congregation Yetev Lev D Satmar on Tuesday in Kiryas Joel, N.Y. NEW YORK — A Hasidic king was buried Monday night, even as two of his sons fought in secular and religious courts to claim his throne.
Teitelbaum's sons loosed high-pitched wails and bowed again and again in prayer toward his wooden coffin.
In the case of the Satmar, Teitelbaum's eldest son, Aaron — who is chief rabbi in Kiryas Joel — expected to succeed his father.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002955835_rabbi27.html   (710 words)

  
 Skuawk: Thousands Gather for N.Y. Rabbi's Burial
Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum, spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Satmar sect of Judaism, was buried early Tuesday as thousands of followers bid a tearful goodbye.
Teitelbaum died Monday at a New York City hospital, where he was being treated for spinal cancer and other ailments.
Teitelbaum took over leadership of the sect from his uncle, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, who died in 1979.
www.skuawk.com /news/432/thousands-gather-for-ny-rabbis-burial   (572 words)

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