The first Hasidic city in US history has appeared in New York

The Satmar Hasidic commune, which lived in the Kiryat Yoel area of ​​Monroe (Orange County, New York), became the first officially registered Hassidic city in the United States and received the name Palm Three.

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Palm Three (Palma) is a literal translation from the German surname of Satmarsky Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, after whom Kiryat Yoel was named, writes Runyweb.

The new city, whose official birthday is January 1 2019, is located on 164 acres (66 ha), which was occupied by Kiryat Yoel and on additional 56 acres (23 ha), received as a gift from the municipal government of Monroe.

In Kiryat Yoel, where Yiddish is the spoken language, there is no crime rate and there are no homeless people, however, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics, this particular town, founded in the middle of 1970 by Satmar Hasidim, is the poorest of 3 700 US settlements with 10 population of thousands of people.

The average family income is there 17 929 dollars per year, and per capita - 4 494 dollars per year. Income 70% of the population below the official poverty level. About half of the residents of Kiryat Yoel are forced to receive social assistance from the federal authorities to buy food, pay for housing and medical services. It should be noted that the next most poverty-stricken city is Athens in Ohio, with 56% of residents below the poverty line.

Two more city-owned records are the lowest average age of residents (more than half of the population are children under 12 years) and the largest size of an average family (on average, 6 people). Most women do not work, most people do not know English. Only 39% of residents graduated from high school and only 5% have the first academic degree.

Recall that Satmarian Hasidim, whose name comes from the Romanian city of Satu Mare (in Yiddish Satmar, and in Italian, Santa Maria), use Yiddish in everyday life, not Hebrew.

They are principled opponents of Zionism and the State of Israel, who believe that the Jewish state should be founded not by Zionists, but by the messiah (machihah). The largest community of Satmar Hasidim lives in Williamsburg - one of the neighborhoods of Brooklyn.

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