A state judge has upheld approval of an annexation bid that would allow an insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish village to greatly expand, an action opponents fear would attract a flood of new residents and overwhelm the rural character of the surrounding area.
After the Holocaust, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the Hungarian grand rebbe of the Satmar Hasidic sect, settled with many of his surviving followers in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. He eventually grew concerned that the sect’s members were too exposed to the immorality of the outside world and began searching for a more secluded refuge.
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