Nassau County, NY – Busloads of Satmar Chasidim made their way to Long Island this afternoon for an hours-long convention discussing the dangers of Zionism.
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Men and boys of all ages traveled to the Nassau Coliseum from Borough Park, Williamsburg, Kiryas Joel, Lakewood, Montreal and beyond going through metal detectors to ensure security at the event which was also patrolled by members of the Nassau County Police Department who circled the venue on horseback.
Visitors were greeted with bags containing light refreshments and a small pair of binoculars, with a decision made not to utilize the jumbo screens in the coliseum because of videos are frowned upon, explained Yitz Farkas, one of the event’s organizers.
Many brought their own high powered binoculars with them in order to get a better view of the convention’s proceedings, which lasted longer than the expected three hours.
Among those who spoke at the event were Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, head of the Eidah Charedis in Jerusalem, Rabbi Getzel Berkowitz of the Kiryas Joel Beis Din, Rabbi Shmaye Lev of the Satmar Beis Din in London and Rabbi Yaakov Koppel Schwartz of Israel. The Satmar Grand Rebbe, Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum, spoke for well over an hour about the dangers of Zionism and announced the creation of a new foundation called Shekel Hakodesh which would provide financial relief to Israeli schools that do not accept government funding.
Extra seating was arranged on the floor of the arena to accommodate the crowd.
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Yamsar how was it going from the protesters at the parade to this, long day I imagine
Please, no hateful comments. These people, and they’re not only of the Satmar sect, believe with their heart and soul that only the Ribono Shel Olam can redeem us, not some secular government body. Let’s not get into the nitty-gritty on this site of the myriad of details of the decades long debate between those who feel that the geulah is already under way and those who genuinely believe the geulah can only come about with the coming of Moshiach. How’s about agreeing to disagree respectfully, especially in light of the fact that we all are direct or indirect recipients of the generosity of Satmar organizations. They not only care about every Yiddishe neshoma but put their money where their mouth is. Are there misguided youth among them? Most certainly. As there are everywhere else. Keeping the peace and avoiding ugly rhetoric and name calling will serve us well and hasten the Geulah Shleimah.
May Hashem bring Moshiach already!
And we can have the true Eretz Yisroel!
Zionism does not exist today as it existed a hundred years ago. Today’s state of Israel is not the zionist entity that zionism was. Today the state of Israel is getting more and more religious and more and more people are observing mitzvos and sitting and learning Torah even in formerly Shomer haTzair kibbutzim….
Why Satmar does not get up dated, I do not know but I hope that they enjoyed their show and keep doing good things….
pictures,pictures,and more pictures of what?
the people who are there support anti zionisim whatever that means. supposedly the speakers support anti zionisim.why do we tell the world the jews lack achdus. forget the cost of this extravaganza an audio broadcast with simultainious translation would have been much more effective unless of course they dont really want to convince anyone of their position
So now that the gentiles know that Jews also hate each other there’s certainly no reason for them not to hate us either.
Great kiddush hashem, Aron P. Teitelbaum. The P stands for pathetic !!!
EICHA!?!
MEHARSAYICH U’MACHARIVAYICH MIMECH YETZEU
what a waste of money. pictures that say nothing .an audience that agrees with the speakers . speakers that agree with the audiance .using an audiocast with simultaneous translation may
gain supporters .what this shows is that we lack achdus.we dont need to support our haters we have enough of them!
The reason the Satmar Rebbe survived the Holocaust is because the Zionists saved him by getting him out of Hungary on the Kastner train in June 1944 just as they were taking him to Auschwitz The Zionists brought him to Israel where he lived in Haifa for a year before moving to America. When people asked him why he does not show his hakoras hatov, appreciation, to the Zionists for saving his life, he said that God saved his life, not the Zionists. The Navi Yeshaya taught us already 2,000 years ago: Meharsayich Umachrivayich Mimeich Yeitzeiu: your greatest destroyers will come from your own people.
I really don’t get why they’re so obsessed with hating Zionists. Is there really nothing more important to convene regarding? Maybe it’s just their only outlet for pent up frustration and anger.
Nebech. The know-nothing commentors still comment.
A) “Israel is getting more religious, so get with the program Satmar”
That’s like saying “Now 50% of that restaurant’s ingredients are kosher, so start eating, Satmar”
B) “Some Zionists purportedly saved R’ Yoel’s life, so it’s a chutzpah he didn’t show hakoras hatov to the Zionists”
Is that the bar for hakoras hatov? Because, technically speaking, do you know who collectively saved the most Jews? Nazis, ym”sh. So I guess we shouldn’t speak ill of Nazis, because, you know, “hakoras hatov”.
The Satmer Rebbe Joel Titelbaum told the Jews in Europe to stay put – assuring and promising them they are safe. The Zionist read it right and encouraged Jews to leave. At the end, when he nebach realized his deadly selfish mistake, with the death of over a million Yidden laid at his feet ( people that could of left in time )
After the war he killed 2 birds at the same time – claiming it was the Zionist that brought Hitler upon us and he is not is not guilty, for if not for the Zioynim he would be right, Hitler was a sweet compassionate man after all,
He took a page from Goebbels play book….say a lie, then say it many times over nad over and in the end 50,000 ignoramus will believe you. The same ones that showed up in Nassau County. R’L
The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
(Arpelei Tohar) Maybe Rav Kook’s advice can save the Jewish people from massive institutionalized sinas chinam.
Do we know what the speakers stated (i.e. a recorded transcript of the meeting)? Did the Mossad have any spies who monitored the gathering? Why are no women shown in the photos? Shouldn’t they have been allowed to attend to listen, and sit in a special section?
1) ALL Of the passengers on the so called Kastner Train privately to be on board.
2) Because the Satmerer Rebbe was on the train his admirers worked sucsees fully to overide the Zionist plans to sabotage the trains directions, Kastner was shot by the Zionists for colaborating with the Satmers on this issue
3)HaShoched Yeager had the been any help from the Zionists in the rescue of this train the Satmer Rebbes opposition to zionism would have vanished as Belz & Lubavitch
What’s he point of the countless photos?
I would like very much to see the script in English of the speeches. I am very much pro-Israel, but I have to acknowledge that these people are talmidei chachamim and if they say something, we should hear. Even if you don’t agree, if may help to balance or sharpen our views better.
I just want to know who is worst:
A Ziony, or a Zoly?
A Zoly or a Bnei Yoel?
Belzer Rav or Rav Kook?
This Jew or that Jew?
It’s a shame to see so many white beards bringing so many children to the largest Jewish hate-fest ever. The brainwashed are brainwashing, it’s a cycle that ensures that the genuine truth should never penetrate their brains.
curious to know if yamsar, assad or abbas guest spoke at this ‘convention’, which is nothing but a despicable, reprehensible act of pure ignorance and evil. on the day of israel’s pride parade, they had to schedule this ??
since i question yamsar’s jewishness, i prefer not to elaborate, so as not to further fuel his anti semitism, but satmar must hate israel for the simple reason that the israeli government would NEVER let them get away with what they get away with as an entire sect, here in the states.
it doesn’t take a book to prove to me that those who walk away from their folds all share the same horror filled stories.
satmar- the deadliest disease amongst us. menuvalim at their arrogant finest
Rav Moshe Sternbuch Shlita is a great man who lives in Yerushalayim and suffers under the zionist yoke daily. If he attended this rally we should all pause and ask Why? He knows the truth of what goes on in Eretz Yisroel first hand, up close.
What a shandah ! May Hashem forgive the Satmars. Heaven knows I never will.
To hate fellow Jews this much? Feh !
This has ZERO to do with Zionism and EVERYTHING to do with a family fight, this is one branch of satmar trying to show how big it is, kind of like when a grizzly bear stands up to face down another grizzly before they fight.
PS this was a colossal failure the entire up section was EMPTY.
I was personally there, it was a mega mega kiddus hashem, 20k satmar people + all talmidei satmer from the 60-70’s, I’m sure this event will bring the גואל צדק soon,
#לקדש שם שמים
The Raved Shternbuch and the Satmer Rebe Shlita from Kryis Joel follow the holy derech of the Tzdaik Emes Rabini Joel Zt”l that Zionsiom is Apikorses and is preached only to those who want to hear the truth and cant be imposed on others by force, therefore disrupting traffic in Jerusalem (especially when there is no elevated threat of forcing enlistment in to the army) throwing yourself in front of bulldozers was something that he did not tolerate from his followers
The extremist gave him a hard time for it, but he always only stood what he believed was the truth he never gave in to their pressure
If there was a protest in the streets against one of the unbearable laws that that the Zionist Govement implemented that was against the Torah, it was debated by all the rabbis if it was absolutely necessary and only on rare occasions did he agree to a public protest
Yesterdays kinus was in Nassau Coliseum due to the need for a large gathering space to clarify and refresh the shita due to current events, it was not a public statement of any sort
A picture speaks a thousand words on all the pictures all the attendees wear jacket and hats have untrimmed beards and are not extremists
These scoundrels come around to shul every morning, and to my house as well collecting for various Satmar mosdos and tzedakas. Personally my response to them now, is ‘If your Rebbe can spend upwards of half a million dollars EACH to rent the Barklay Center last year and the Nassau Colosseum this year,for just a few hours, go to him for a handout.” He’s clearly got a lot more expendable income than the rest of us.
The response I get from the mishulachim is either a deer in the headlights look or a disgusting verbal tirade
Not to mention the “bitul Torah D’Rabim that he’s responsible for, by closing down his yeshiva! But that’s between him and a higher authority
Why wasn’t a separate section reserved for women? Why were they not welcome, at that event? Also, is an English translation available from those proceedings?
Last, to the Israeli woman who claimed hostile treatment from the Satmar in EY, I don’t know of any such incidents in the USA (i.e. spitting, cursing, calling people Nazis), etc.).
Here is the real deal.
When asra kedisha in yerushalim messed with R stenrbach , R aron stuck up for him. Thus, R Sternbuch is just paying back a favor.
Its not about the Kastner train or the alter Satmer rebbe who was saved. Its about Satmarim today who dwell on their hatred of everyone not like them, secular Jews, frum Jews not satmars, women, Israel. The only ones they like are themselves and the bloodthirsty arabs.
Wow! Talk about hate! When it comes to the biggest reshaim I’m sure that everyone is melsmef zchus. When it comes to stay whole segment of klal yisroel whose shita is based on gedolei olam everyone is so quick to bash them! And satmar is holding back the geulah?????
Agreeing to the attacks on our fellow Jews, no this is not how to bring Mashiach. Standing up for the Jews in Israel and around the world that works. Their beliefs are skewed and dangerous. They support terrorism, not sure how that brings Mashiach. G-d help us all
I was personally there, it was a mega mega kiddus hashem, 20k satmar people + all talmidei satmer from the 60-70’s, I’m sure this event will bring the גואל צדק soon,
#לקדש שם שמים