Satmar Kiryas Joel Discrimination in 1994 - on 60 Minutes
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Satmar Kiryas Joel on 60 Minutes, Interviewing Joseph Waldman, Yisroel Dovid Weiss of Netura Karta, KJ Mayor Abraham Wieder, Mier Werthimer. www.recordonline.com Kiryas Joel Dissidents File Suit Seeking to have Village Dissolved Dissident leaders from Kiryas Joel filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the Satmar Hasidic community's majority faction of abusing its control over municipal affairs and demanding the 34-year-old village be dissolved. The 59-page complaint catalogs grievances dating back a decade and depicts a religious faction exercising uncontested power in the secular realm. The case, brought by Goshen attorney Michael Sussman, calls Kiryas Joel a "theocracy" that violates the First Amendment's prohibition against the establishment of religion. "Religion is wonderful," Sussman said at a press conference in his office Monday, seated beside Joseph Waldman, a plaintiff and longtime dissident leader. "But it cannot dominate the state. And that is what is happening in Kiryas Joel." The case alleges discrimination against dissidents — estimated in court papers to comprise 40 percent of the village's roughly 20000 residents — in various facets of public life, from tax exemptions for synagogues to election improprieties to selective enforcement of village noise ordinances. Among the most serious allegations is that Kiryas Joel's Public Safety Department, a quasi-police agency, has acted as enforcers for the main congregation and tolerated acts of violence and <b>...</b>
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