In 1996, during the heated days of the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, a fire broke out at the women’s convalescent home where Hasidic mothers were recovering with their newborn babies. It raged during the night as frantic mothers escaped the home with their babies. This incident is believed by many to have been arson - and was the precipitated by fighting in the village between the iron fisted leadership and a small group of dissidents. Although I grew up in Kiryas Joel, I remember little or no

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🚨Welcome to Kiryas, Joel: A village of 44,000 Hasidic Jews in up-state New York living off the teat of welfare programs and according to Jewish Talmudic law. -99% of this village’s residents are Hasidic Jews -they speak primarily Yiddish -40% live below the federal poverty line -40-60% receiving SNAP assistance -reports estimate an average of 7 children per woman, some of the highest fertility rates in the developed world. -median age is 15 years old -almost all children attend private religiou