כינוס סאטמאר - יובל השמונים • בארקלעיס סענטער • כ"א כסלו תשפ"ה | Kuf Alef Kislev - Barclay’s Center

Nearly 20,000 are expected to celebrate community's revival and marvelous growth of its yeshiva system - defying its detractors and naysayers and challenging environment - at Satmar's largest annual event to-date BROOKLYN, N.Y., Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, December 22nd, close to 20,000 members and followers of the Satmar community – the largest Hasidic community – will file into the Barclays Center to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the community founder's rescue from the Nazis. The event, which is the community's largest annual-celebration to-date, will mark the community's marvelous growth, defying its detractors attacking Satmar and the Hasidic community and its yeshivas in general. Headquartered in Williamsburg, Satmar boasts more than 100,000 members throughout New York and tens of thousands more worldwide. It is hard to fathom that this community started less than 80 years ago after the Hasidic community, based in Eastern Europe, was almost obliterated by the Nazis. On the Jewish-calendar day of 21 Kislev, the community celebrates its miraculous rebirth. On that day (December 7, 1944), Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum OBM was on a train transport that was diverted fro