Reply To: Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah Fighting NY Department of Education

The Satmar Rebbe has been at the forefront of this fight since Day One. In fact, even the recent change in New York State law passed by the New York State legislature a few months ago at the behest of Senator Simcha Felder, that weakened New York’s century old public school equivalency law, came through the intense efforts of the Satmar Rebbe shlit”a.

Satmar is very powerful on the state and city levels in New York. For many decades governors of New York have been coming to Kiryas Yoel to pay homage to the Satmar Rebbe, including several recent visits by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. They’ve also had meetings with all presidents since at least Nixon.