Monday, June 11, 2018
Hasidic-sect chief rips followers for admiring Israel
The head of the Satmar Hassidic sect has accused his followers of increasingly admiring Israel for its military and political accomplishments, imploring them to maintain the Hasidic group's hardline anti-Zionism.
Addressing thousands of Satmar members at Long Island's Nassau Coliseum, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum lamented what he called a "tremendous and terrible spiritual decline" among his followers.
"According to the rumors I heard, [people] are excitedly talking about the news of [the Israelis'] accomplishments, how smart they are, how they succeed politically and militarily, and about their heads of government," Teitelbaum told the crowd in an address in Yiddish on Sunday, according to a Hebrew translation from the Kann public broadcaster.
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