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Please pardon my naivete on the subject, however during the course of events over the last few days, I’ve noticed a number of people from the Satmar community, men and women, speaking with members of the media on the tragedy. I always thought that Satmar discouraged their followers from such public interactions with outsiders? Am I mistaken?
I always thought that Satmar discouraged their followers from such public interactions with outsiders? Am I mistaken?
I believe so. I’ve never heard of such a thing. There are such “cults”, but Satmar is not one of them.
Do not believe the propaganda that Satmar hasidim (in all their flavors) are sub-human perverse misanthropes incapable of dealing with the real world.
You are mistaken
Do not believe the propaganda that Satmar hasidim (in all their flavors) are sub-human perverse misanthropes incapable of dealing with the real world.
You have a way with words; you made me smile.
Thanks.
yossi- generally speaking, the media is never the source for accurate information.
Your name sounds troll-worthy for your question and comment. And you became a member today? Sorry, I’m not biting.
Do not believe the propaganda that Satmar hasidim (in all their flavors) are sub-human perverse misanthropes incapable of dealing with the real world.You omitted illiterate, intolerant, uneducated, sadistic, exclusionary, perfidious, duplicitous, and racist.
Listen, I’m not here to argue, but the name you are using doesn’t quite sound secular, care to explain?
Maybe you have people who “do their own thing” and buck the norm?
Mammele:
YB is too sincere and not in-your-face enough to be a troll. Let him be.
TKND: That’s why I was trying not to be too argumentative.
It just so happens that someone named “Yossi Brach”, if I remember correctly, is a very vocal guy that sometimes talks on the Zev Brenner show on behalf of Satmar/R’Ahron. Would be weird if the name is merely a coincidence. And maybe I have the wrong name, but I don’t thinks so.
So I still think he’s playing us, although you might be right, so I’ll try to back off.
Reb Doniel: Maybe, but that would contradict the critics that say that nobody breathes in Satmar without his/her Rabbi’s approval.
Okay, I apologize — I’m sorry if I offended you.
Mods, please remove personal information.
Yossibroch who said “…however my only knowledge of Satmar is from Wikipedia, the book/film ‘The Chosen’ …”
Wikipedia is inherently unreliable since it reflect whomever wrote the article, though it often has useful bibliographies. It is especially unreliable on controversial topics in which partisans strive to manipulate the article (they have had a great deal of trouble with Palestinians and Zionists in this respect).
The author of “The Chosen” is a Conservative Rabbi trying to justify his going off the derekh. Consider it as good a source for understanding orthodox Jews as Der Sturmer was for understanding the holocaust (except that Potok never got into a fight with people who hang troublemakers – but he’s just as guilty as people such as Streicher)
I dont think the Chassidim in the Chosen were Satmar.
The Rebbe was anti-zionist before 1948, but accepted the state after 1948. This was the more general Charedi response but not the Satmar
There are individualists in sects of every bent.
I am amazed by how many people from RWO backgrounds are far more “cool” and multifaceted than I previously thought.
Yeah, contrary to popular opinions, we’re not actually made in molds.
“Do not believe the propaganda that Satmar hasidim (in all their flavors) are sub-human perverse misanthropes incapable of dealing with the real world. “
LOL…Sounds like Lakewood.
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