Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar (Hooper Street)
669 Kent Avenue | also 15 Hooper Street, 13 Hooper Street | South Williamsburg | built 1946
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- 2006
Followers of Aaron Teitelbaum plan their own main Satmar synagogue after the rebbe's death
After Satmar rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum died in April 2006, his will and a rabbinical court backed his son Zalman, though followers of his other son Aaron disputed both. Aaron's supporters, long shut out of the main Rodney Street synagogue and praying in a large tent for the High Holy Days, began planning their own main synagogue after a New York court ruled in July that it lacked jurisdiction.
“After a New York State court ruled in July that the dispute was outside of its jurisdiction, followers of Aaron ... started plans to build an alternative main synagogue.”
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- 2006
The Hooper Street synagogue goes up in 14 days, with a stop-work order after a worker falls
More than 200 workers, 125 of them employees and 80 volunteers, built the steel-frame synagogue in 2006 on 18-hour days so it would be ready for the Jewish New Year. The Department of Buildings ordered the work stopped after a worker fell roughly 20 feet on September 15, but construction continued. Zalman's supporters mocked it as the "Home Depot shul".
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
About 1,000 mourners fill the Hooper Street synagogue for its president, Isaac Rosenberg
Rabbi Isaac Rosenberg, the synagogue's president and one of the main backers of its construction, died in 2016 after being caught in a rip tide off Florida. His funeral was held in front of the synagogue on Hooper Street, and nearly 1,000 mourners filled the building.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
A private wedding for about 7,000 guests brings a $15,000 fine to the Hooper Street synagogue
In November 2020, a month after the state stopped a wedding at the rival Rodney Street synagogue, the grandson of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum was married here. Organized in private, it drew an estimated 7,000 worshippers, against the COVID-19 health orders. The city fined the congregation $15,000 and put a cease-and-desist order on the building.
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