Kiryas Yoel MonDroe — A long-simmering dispute over which faction controls the cemetery where the revered founder of the Satmar Chasidic movement is buried has finally boiled over into court.
One side from Kiryas Yoel recently filed a lawsuit claiming its rivals in Brooklyn are improperly trying to assert control over the burial ground.
They insist the sacred ground belongs jointly to the main Satmar congregations in Kiryas Yoel and Brooklyn, and they believe, that their side controls the Brooklyn congregation.
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Part of the lawsuit deals with issues connected to the rebbe’s anniversary, including the selection of organizations that can collect donations at the cemetery during the event. Police say they expect nothing worse at this year’s anniversary, which falls on Aug. 31.
But the larger, year-round issues raised by the case are over which side decides who may be buried in the cemetery. The spark for the cemetery lawsuit appears to have been a letter from one defendant on June 30 declaring that the other side can no longer bury its family members in Kiryas Yoel “without written permission from our Congregation.”
The letter also declared that anyone who wants to set up a fundraising booth during the upcoming anniversary of the rebbe’s death would need the congregation’s permission.
HIKIND ON HAND TO WITNESS ‘GREATEST TRAGEDY’
As Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip counted down their last hours until the historic Israeli-ordered pullout, one New York legislator touring the settlements called the withdrawal “the greatest tragedy I have ever witnessed.”
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), who arrived in the Gaza Strip last Wednesday, praised the “courage and determination” of the settlers, saying they continue to hope for a miraculous last-minute reprieve.
Welllllllll if u think that the fighting in monroe caused the eviction of people in Gush Katif, i wonder where do i need to fight so my next door neighbor, whom i’m having an argument with, should be evicted, helllllp, please i want him evicted immadiately
Idiot, this has nothing to do with suicide bombers, this has to do with having a border that can be protected. The settlers will no longer have to fear when they drive home that they may be shot by a terrorist. There will no longer be another Hatuel family murdered in that manner. Finally, Israel will no longer have to spend millions of dollars to protect 9000 people. Grow up, study the maps and the plan.
STOP IT!!! STOP IT!!! DON’T ANY OF YOU REALIZE THAT THESE THINGS HAPPEN ONLY BECAUSE OF ALL THE FIGHTING AND CHILLUL HASHEMS THAT ARE MADE??????????? STOP IT ALREADY!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! WHEN WILL EVERYONE LEARN TO LIVE IN PEACE AND HARMONY?? WE JUST FASTED ON TISHA B’AV!!! HELLO!!!!!! THE BAIS HAMIKDASH WAS DESTROYED BECAUSE OF ALL THE SINAS CHINAM GOING ON AT THAT TIME. THE FACT THAT WE ARE STILL IN GOLUS, DOESNT THAT PROVE TO US THAT SINAS CHINAM IS STILL GOING ON??? STOP IT ALREADY!! FOR EVERYONES SAKE. THINK 5 TIMES BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING, HOW WILL YOUR COMMENTS AFFECT THE WORLD TODAY, OR RATHER JUST SHUT THE —- UP.
i still ask my original question, how would u feel in that situation.u really think it would stop the homicide bombers?
Idiot, It’s in the setllers’ best interest. Sharon is as a good Zionist as you are. He faught in all if Israel’s wars since the age of 14. What did you do for Israel, besides writing here on the internet? The knesset wants the best for Israel more than you do. It was approved by a majority in the knesset.
Wtf r u hasidim so stupid that u don’t even care about our brothers in our own holy land the land of ISREAL
wonder how u would feel if the us govt would kick u out of ur house in KJ and its going to the hic/spic/black or arab…and tells u take ur family out of the ground…
whatch your language you peice of dreck !
NISSANIT, Gaza Strip: Troops hand out first eviction notice to Gaza settler.
“WHATS GOING ON” are you crazy from where are you are you on this worlk????
WHATS GOING ON IN ISRAEL??????
U guys just gotta put a stop to this crap its the biggest disgrace to gods name I ever saw please at least don’t pulicize this stuff its the worst thing that you can do to us jews especially at this time when all our sisters and brothers in ISREAL are going through a rough time we and they need gods mercy, Amen