Sunday, April 16, 2006
Chief recalls last Satmar Rebbe's funeral
Back then, Bob Kwiatkowski was a Woodbury patrolman. Neighboring Monroe had fewer than 15,000 people, and only a small percentage of them lived in the recently incorporated Hasidic settlement known as Kiryas Joel.
But when the revered leader of the Satmar Hasidic sect, Joel Teitelbaum, died in 1979, Kwiatkowski and others would soon learn the magnitude of grief his passing could command. As the Times Herald-Record reported at the time, as many as 100,000 mourners descended upon an unsuspecting Orange County to attend the funeral and burial of the Satmar grand rebbe.
"I remember they gridlocked Route 17," says Kwiatkowski, today the chief of the Woodbury department. "Nothing moved. They parked cars in the driving lanes and walked into Kiryas Joel."
This time around, police know what to expect. They've been planning for months how to handle the traffic that will pour into Monroe and Woodbury when 91-year-old Moses Teitelbaum, a nephew who succeeded Joel Teitelbaum as grand rebbe, dies and is brought to Kiryas Joel to be buried beside his uncle.
Kwiatkowski, a veteran of one rebbe funeral, vows, "This is going to be a well-coordinated response."
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/16/news-southnote16-04-14.html
Back then, Bob Kwiatkowski was a Woodbury patrolman. Neighboring Monroe had fewer than 15,000 people, and only a small percentage of them lived in the recently incorporated Hasidic settlement known as Kiryas Joel.
But when the revered leader of the Satmar Hasidic sect, Joel Teitelbaum, died in 1979, Kwiatkowski and others would soon learn the magnitude of grief his passing could command. As the Times Herald-Record reported at the time, as many as 100,000 mourners descended upon an unsuspecting Orange County to attend the funeral and burial of the Satmar grand rebbe.
"I remember they gridlocked Route 17," says Kwiatkowski, today the chief of the Woodbury department. "Nothing moved. They parked cars in the driving lanes and walked into Kiryas Joel."
This time around, police know what to expect. They've been planning for months how to handle the traffic that will pour into Monroe and Woodbury when 91-year-old Moses Teitelbaum, a nephew who succeeded Joel Teitelbaum as grand rebbe, dies and is brought to Kiryas Joel to be buried beside his uncle.
Kwiatkowski, a veteran of one rebbe funeral, vows, "This is going to be a well-coordinated response."
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/16/news-southnote16-04-14.html
Comments:
Yes, and the Police should hang around for the HACHTOORA, when the losing side really starts showing grief, to the winners, and anybody else they disagree with. Oh, well, the income from the fines and penalties will do alot for the Orange County community. Who knows, maybe they will incorporate it into an episode of OCC (the reality show). And never forget the famous sign in KY, "Women's underwear half off in honor of the Rebbe's yartziet." Maybe there will be more off for the Patira and Kavera
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Satmar Rebbe Dies At AGe 91
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/24/reb.html
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