Kiryas Joel News

A state Supreme Court judge has ordered a dissident group to vacate its synagogue by Saturday and threatened to jail its leaders if worshippers refuse to leave.

Kiryas Joel's plans to tap the Catskill Aqueduct are moving forward despite a second lawsuit by Orange County challenging the environmental review for the water project.

They had hoped to attract hundreds to protest attempts by leaders of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum's congregation to close a dissident synagogue.

The Rockland cases have all occurred in religious communities in Monsey and Spring Valley, according to an alert issued this week by the state Department of Health.

The voting bloc in the Hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel was expected to influence the outcome of the Monroe Town Board race Tuesday, as the powerful bloc instructed its members to back Democrat Gerard McQuade and Republican Don Weeks, leaving 20-year-incumbent Peter Martin out in the cold.

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A psychiatrist with the Kiryas Joel School District in Orange County died when the small plane he was piloting crashed Sunday night near a Vermont airport.

The battle over utility connections to a dissident synagogue had been raging for a couple weeks, ever since Kiryas Joel's main congregation shut off the services and the opposition group found a way to restore them, in an improvised fashion.

When two sides fight over power in Kiryas Joel, it generally means one of the warring factions of Satmar Hasidim has staged another court maneuver to get the upper hand over its opponents.

It came smack in the middle of the High Holy Days: another court decision to roil the feuding factions of Satmar Hasidim.

He's called the homeless who once lived at Camp La Guardia a "disease," politicians who pandered too much to voting blocs "prostitutes" and the orthodox Jewish leadership of Kiryas Joel "cheats" and "liars." He's been characterized as insensitive, disloyal and anti-Semitic by some, a "hero" by others.

A late-night fire damaged an unoccupied storage area in a school dormitory on the night before the teenage boys staying there departed for a four-week vacation.

A smoky fire ripped through a dorm at an Orthodox Jewish boys school in the Kiryas Joel section of Orange County.

Tucked within the Catskill Mountains, the tiny village of Kiryas Joel , N.Y., is best known for its almost exclusively Hasidic Jewish population and sky-high poverty rate .

I once read a story about Germany's remaining Jewish community in, I want to say, the late 1990s.

The bitter fight between rival factions of Satmar Hasidim took a dramatic turn Thursday when mourners hastily dedicated a new cemetery just outside Kiryas Joel to bury a 41-year-old man who died that morning.

Hasidic groups have begun a voter registration drive in the Town of Bethel after what organizers say has been increasingly unfair treatment at the hands of the Town Board.

Could Orange County force municipalities to connect their water systems if they don't want to? Three people who believe it could made their case to local officials at the Woodbury firehouse Thursday night, the latest rumblings of opposition to a proposed plan for the county's public water supplies.

The steamy Sunday afternoon sun did nothing to shorten the caravan of cars and buses, or the line of men and boys ascending Schunnemunk Road.

Fifty miles away, nostalgic fans have been descending on hallowed ground in Sullivan County where the Woodstock festival was staged 40 years ago, hoping to recapture the communal vibe of an epochal '60s moment.