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| Subject: Karma: Grand rabbi of Satmar Hasidic dynasty tests positive for coronavirus Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:28 am | |
| The rabbinic leader of the Kiryas Joel branch of Satmar Hasidism, one of the largest sects of Haredi Orthodox Judaism in the world, has tested positive for coronavirus. Grand Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday after being in isolation for a week. Ezra Friedlander, a Hasidic lobbyist with close ties to the Satmar community, told the Forward on Thursday that Teitelbaum had not been seen in public since the previous Friday, when one of his personal assistants became sick. (Friedlander actually said the rebbe had tested positive then, but later retracted his statement.) Teitelbaum, 72, is the spiritual leader of one of the two branches of the Satmar sect (his brother, Zalman, leads the Satmars in Brooklyn). Both Teitelbaums ordered their synagogues, yeshivas and other institutions to shutter on Wednesday as the coronavirus spread through their communities.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/442146/grand-rabbi-of-satmar-hasidic-dynasty-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/
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