A living communal world
The people and institutions that carry Satmar life.
Meet the people, schools, charities, businesses, creative groups, and communal institutions through which Satmar life is taught, sustained, organized, and renewed.
A communal directory
Different kinds of work shape a living community.
Education, charity, religious judgment, publishing, civic life, business, and creative work each belong here on their own terms. The sections below keep those forms of contribution distinct.
People
People who serve and build
Educators, founders, scholars, organizers, businesspeople, and volunteers turn ability and obligation into work that families and institutions can rely on.
Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum
The rabbinic leader who gathered a Hungarian and Transylvanian inheritance into a Hasidic court, rebuilt it after the Holocaust, and established the communal and theological foundations Satmar continues to carry.
Read the story →The Nitra rabbi who helped lead the Bratislava Working GroupRabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl
A manuscript scholar, yeshiva leader, rescuer, and witness whose underground network pursued visas, couriers, bribery, ransom, warnings, and border routes while deportation trains moved across Europe.
Read the story →Six decades of educational leadership at Beth RachelRabbi Hertz Frankel
The educator entrusted by Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum with the English department of Satmar's Williamsburg girls' schools, where he helped generations of students prepare for adult life.
Read the story →Jewish rescue, community advocacy, and public serviceRabbi Moshe Dovid Niederman
The longtime communal leader Rabbi Yoel entrusted with Rav Tov, whose work has joined international Jewish rescue with social services, housing, public health, neighborhood representation, and civic government.
Read the story →Civic representation and political relationship-buildingRabbi Moshe Indig
A Williamsburg community leader who turns political relationships into practical access for families and institutions associated with Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum's Satmar leadership center.
Read the story →Scholarship, translation, and public explanationRabbi Moshe Dovid Katz
The Satmar scholar and organizer who founded Torah Jews, also known as Natruna, to explain the community's religious opposition to Zionism through sources, writing, lectures, and public communication.
Read the story →Emergency care and volunteer institution-buildingRabbi Hershel Weber
The Williamsburg organizer whose local emergency-response initiative became the Hatzalah network.
Read the story →Care for the sick and their familiesRebbetzin Alte Feiga Teitelbaum
The Rebbetzin whose hospital food deliveries grew into Satmar Bikur Cholim's enduring network of care.
Read the story →Satmar founders of B&H PhotoBlimie and Herman Schreiber
The married founders who grew a small Manhattan camera store into a global professional-technology retailer shaped by expertise, service, and an observant Jewish calendar.
Read the story →Institutions
Institutions of service, education, religious life, publishing, and civic life
Schools, rabbinic bodies, publications, emergency services, charities, businesses, and civic organizations give durable form to work that extends beyond any one household.
Beth Rachel Schools
The Satmar girls' school system in Williamsburg, built to carry religious formation, practical learning, language, and family responsibility into the next generation.
Enter the institution →Satmar education across Eretz YisraelMosdos Yetev Lev D'Eretz Yisroel
A network of schools carrying Satmar communal life through preschool, boys' and girls' elementary education, yeshiva ketana, and yeshiva gedolah in cities across Eretz Yisrael.
Enter the institution →A rabbinic institution serving a wider Torah publicCentral Rabbinical Congress
A rabbinic body established under the leadership of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum together with other postwar Torah authorities, providing kashrus supervision, rabbinic judgment, and communal guidance.
Enter the institution →The Yiddish weekly associated with the Williamsburg-centered Satmar branchDer Yid
A weekly publication through which news, Torah, business, family life, institutions, and public questions enter Satmar homes in the community's own language.
Enter the institution →The Yiddish weekly associated with the Kiryas Joel-centered Satmar branchDer Blatt
A major Yiddish weekly carrying the news, religious outlook, institutions, and public voice associated with Satmar's Kiryas Joel-centered leadership branch.
Enter the institution →Source-based public explanation of Satmar's religious opposition to ZionismTorah Jews / Natruna
A Satmar-founded educational organization bringing the community's religious position into books, translations, lectures, hotlines, public statements, and material written for the wider world.
Enter the institution →Volunteer emergency medical responseHatzalah
The emergency-response network that grew from a Williamsburg neighborhood initiative into a disciplined volunteer institution serving communities around the world.
Enter the institution →Food, visits, and practical care during illnessSatmar Bikur Cholim
A women-led network of hospital support that grew from a Williamsburg kitchen into an enduring institution of care for patients and families.
Enter the institution →International Jewish rescue and resettlementRav Tov
The rescue organization founded at Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum's behest in 1973, carrying Soviet, Iranian, and other Jewish refugees through visas, transit, temporary care, and resettlement.
Enter the institution →Support for independent Torah schools in Eretz YisroelKeren Hatzolah
The international fund Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum founded to sustain Torah schools in Eretz Yisroel that preserve their religious independence by refusing Israeli government funding.
Enter the institution →Professional technology retail shaped by an observant calendarB&H Photo
A small Manhattan camera store that became a global destination for photography, video, audio, and technology while keeping Shabbos and Jewish holidays visible in its operating life.
Enter the institution →The business expo of the Williamsburg-centered Satmar branchZeh Mizeh Satmar Business Expo
A large annual gathering associated with Satmar's Williamsburg-centered leadership branch, where business owners, professionals, suppliers, and customers meet across hundreds of trades and services.
Enter the institution →The business convention of the Kiryas Joel-centered Satmar branchSatMark Business Convention
A Rockland County gathering associated with Satmar's Kiryas Joel-centered leadership branch, bringing businesses, service providers, and professionals together for exhibition, referrals, and commercial relationships.
Enter the institution →Social services and civic representationUnited Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg
A neighborhood institution connecting Yiddish-speaking residents with social services, housing, public health, government, and civic representation.
Enter the institution →Practical help and civic accessJewish Community Council of Williamsburg
A Williamsburg Orthodox advocacy and assistance organization serving the Satmar communities associated with Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum's Kiryas Joel-centered leadership branch.
Enter the institution →Technology and enterprise
Technology built around the needs people actually meet
Software, hardware, communications, and payment systems take shape around concrete problems in business, charity, health care, and religious life.
Shloma Baum
A Kiryas Joel technologist who taught himself programming and built FieldOne, the field-service software company acquired by Microsoft in 2015.
Read the story →Software developed from practical business problemsYanky Rottenberg
A Williamsburg-born Satmar alumnus who founded EzCloud and builds custom systems and e-commerce tools through patient, self-directed technical learning.
Read the story →Field-service software built in Kiryas JoelFieldOne
The enterprise software company founded by Shloma Baum to coordinate work orders, scheduling, inventory, routing, and mobile service teams.
Enter the institution →Technology in service of patients and familiesWellTab
A COVID-era patient-communication initiative that combined paired tablets, custom software, hospital connectivity, technical support, and volunteer distribution.
Enter the institution →Payment technology shaped around everyday tzedakahMatbia
A donor-facing charitable platform that combines a four-corner tap card, giving records, maaser tools, and several ways to manage an account.
Enter the institution →Custom software for business operations and e-commerceEzCloud
A Williamsburg-rooted software company building custom systems and ready-made tools for sellers, operations teams, and Shabbos-aware commerce.
Enter the institution →Music and creative life
Artists and ensembles shaped within Satmar life
Music is one part of communal life. These profiles follow musicians, composers, arrangers, and ensembles whose craft grew within Satmar and travels through the wider Hasidic world.
Mendy Hershkowitz
A bandleader, arranger, and musician whose professional language grew from a Satmar upbringing and expanded through disciplined study and collaboration.
Read the story →Raised in Kiryas Joel; bandleader and arrangerShea Kaller
A Satmar-raised musician whose band and arrangements have become a recognizable part of contemporary Hasidic celebrations and recordings.
Read the story →A composer and singer formed in Satmar lifeHershy Weinberger
A prolific composer, lyricist, singer, and longtime Shira Choir member whose work moves between Satmar memory and the wider Hasidic music world.
Read the story →Founded by Satmar alumnus Shraga GoldShira Choir
A professional choir that grew from Shraga Gold's musical formation in Satmar Williamsburg into a major voice across the Hasidic music world.
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