Tens of thousands of Chasidic Jews who never protested when Hamas held Jewish hostages, are expected to gather on Sunday outside the Israeli Consulate on Second Avenue in Manhattan to protest the Israeli government’s plan to draft eligible, well-fed yeshiva students into the army.
The event will mark a rare show of unity between the rival Satmar factions led by brothers Reb Aharon Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Joel and the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, Reb Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, who hate each other with a passion!
The rally comes just weeks after an anti-draft gathering in Lakewood, New Jersey, led by prominent Israel-hating roshei yeshiva, and attended by a few thousand sheep, who by-in-large don't work.
It will be the first time since 2013 that both Satmar factions appear together at a joint hate demonstration against the Jewish government. The last such rally, held that year in Foley Square, drew tens of thousands of unemployed chassidim!
Organizers said the timing of the Manhattan rally reflects a longstanding Satmar policy (lie) not to hold public protests against Israel while the country is at war. With fighting in Gaza now paused following the ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump, they said the time has come to voice their opposition to the "gezeiras" hagiyus — the "decree" of conscription.
The planned demonstration against their fellow Jews follows months of debate in Israel’s Knesset over how to implement the Supreme Court’s ruling that the decades-long exemption for Charedi men from military service must end.
Many Charedi leaders view the draft "decree" as an existential threat to their religious way of life.
Some say that the Satmar "way of life" is an "existential threat to religious life" as thousands of Satmar Youth are going OTD! Statistics show that more Satmar Youth are leaving the Torah life than religious boys who enlisted in the IDF and went off the derech. At least those in the IDF are doing a service for Am Yisrael!
The Knesset is expected to resume debate on the matter in the coming weeks.
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What is the source for the OTD statistics in satmar?
Satmar itself in its Newspaper Der Yid
פרשת נצבים edition page 28, where they write that its "an epidemic in maga proportions and every family is affected" they write that "there is no current solution as their leaders are in denial"
Satmar itself in its Newspaper Der Yid
פרשת נצבים edition page 28, where they write that its "an epidemic in maga proportions and every family is affected" they write that "there is no current solution as their leaders are in denial"
The article's byline that DIN mentions is
סאטמר קהילה זיער באזארגט
וועגען די טוזענטיר יוגענד וואס לאזעהן איבער די היילגע מסורה
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