Hasidic Woman Dies, Leaves a Village of Descendents

Now that's a lotta fuckin !!!

WOW and I thought I came from a large family.

kiryas joel was once a beautiful community until the hasids turned it into a welfare community.this is what the hasids do.they breed like roaches and vote in blocks,making sure that their needs are met,they could give a shit about anybody else.these people hide behind their religious beliefs from thousands of years ago,but what it all amounts to is religious zealots.they live off the sweat from our brow,yours and my tax dollars.

Overpopulation is EVIL!

Specially when it comes with a whole lot of religious indoctrination where individualistic values are above all others.

"Every sperm is sacred..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk

15 children? that's absolutely disgusting. Really ahould be a 3 child limit in the u.s. to keep the insane population down.

If you really feel that way, move to China, I am sure you'll love their policies.

Twit.

Nothing like following up a dumb non-rebuttal with an attempt at being mean.

2000?

so whaddaya want, a medal?

Something I've always wondered about. This is the group of religious nutjobs who have sex through a hole in the sheet. How often do you think they need to replace those sheets? I mean is there like some sort of special reinforced border around those holes or what exactly?

Thanks for reinforcing the urban legend. Give the woman props for keeping monogamous, and never cheating.

where does it say she was monogamous? besides she was probably pregnant for 20 years of her life

Those are kitten numbers.

If this was black woman then CR especially and others would be spewing "close your legs". This woman had way too many children and I am quite sure they were all on the welfare roll.

omg jews

She had 15 kids, and that's something we should admire?

F*k that, make them pay a Whore Carbon tax

for excessive use of God's resources.

But can reason win a debate with a religious fundamentalist?

Since logic, science and empiricism is totally optional for faith based existences, we are doomed to continuously regress into an awful past. It happened to the Muslim Culture, being the most advanced culture globally at one point in time, now only are spoils very well protected by fundamentalists!

This country can just be heading in the same direction thanks to all sorts of crazy: teabaggers, mormons, ortodox jews, you name it.

Faith above reason and scientific evidence, fabrications above coherence and proof.

These people are sacrificing reality and progress just keep things in their most comfortable state of static faith.

I kind of agree with that. Excessive reproduction should be taxed, not rewarded with huge tax deductions. I'm tired of paying to support other people's lack of restraint.

Michelle Duggar hopes to put Yitta to shame.

If any of this woman's 2000 descendants is involved in any sort of moving violation or car accident, Hunter.Blatherer will NOT forgive nor forget! Rest easy now.

I suppose if you were falsely accused of being a danger to children, and your rights to public space attempted to be taken away as a result, you would just chalk it up to cultural differences?

Believe me, Amanda wishes she came up with that term...

The above reply was to Doctor Memory know nothing piece of Zionist bullshit.

incredible life, great read

Yes, oddly enough it is somewhat difficult to become fluent in a new language at the age of 37. Please feel free move to Shanghai or Hanoi and prove me wrong.

Luckily, you don't need to be conversationally fluent to navigate the subway, buy a newspaper (of which NYC has several in both German and Yiddish) or groceries, or pay your phone bill, all of which she was apparently perfectly capable of doing. It's a safe bet that of her 2,000 descendants, every last one of them speaks it fluently.

Also, go fuck yourself.

Take religion out of this for a moment and imagine this.

Every person in her family had 10-13 children.

Even geese don't reproduce like that. And then they wonder...

Just wait until the price of digital cameras drop. Then how will they support their spawn?

So? They wanted to be sure there was a minyan...

There's an error in the NY Times article: Kiryas Joel is not near Monroe, NY, but is one of three villages within Monroe.

So what is Monroe, a county? You are not making the geographic location any clearer.

I wasn't talking about the geographic location of Monroe, but of KJ in relation to Monroe, which is a large town in Orange County, NY. Monroe is made up of 3 villages - the village of Monroe, village of KJ, and village of Harriman, as well as townland that is not part of any village. I am originally from the latter.

Monroe is a city in Orange County, which on the western side of the Hudson River and directly north of NJ.

"but is one of three villages within Monroe."

You people have lost me here. How can three villages be inside a town which probably is the size of a well placed shit on the side of the road?

I'm not from this place. Where I grew up there are only cities and towns. LOL Maybe it's some throw back to the colonial period.

Ishtar I realize that you are probably one of those towel headed idiots that have caused problems in this world since the invention of dirt. I respect the fact that you have only been in this country for thirty five years, but the way we here in America define villages or towns or cities is by geographical and political boundaries. WTF are you talking about Ishtar? Are you some Assyrian delegate that hates all that are around you and wishes that it was 3000 BC, when dirt and your your type thought that cultivating plants was a really the best thing that civilization needed?

You failed miserably at whatever you were trying to do.

All judgment aside, this is a very interesting way to have lived. I wonder how often she thought of the three children she lost? My irish great grandmother had 16 or so. Half died in childhood. It always made me wonder about people's capacity for love, sadness and or grief. Do you spread it more thinly if you have more people to cover? Are you forced or do you chose to become cold and detached in the face of an overwhelming loss or losses?

Perhaps, on some level, it is the opposite of smothering with too much love?

Frank - those are great points, and certainly food-for-thought, but let's me honest here - this is Gothamist and on Gothamist you can't talk about any sect of Judaism without talking about the oppression of the Palestinians by the evil Zionists, the fact that people other than Jews were killed in Holocuast (and no one ever mentions that, no they don't), and how Satmar Hasidim are monsters because they don't want a bike lane on *every* major street in Williamsburg. Now cut it out before you're forced to report to the umstodtplotz with your identity papers and explain why you hadn't mention earlier that at least one of your grandparents was Jewish.

first off, quite a few of these commenters have absolutely no decency or respect. the woman is dead. ok so you dont agree with her way of life, fine. luckily we live in america and due to the democrats welfare is out there for the taking! there was quite the tinge of anti-semitism. i find it funny how these bike riding hipsters preach free speach and equality yet turn around and spout sh*t like this. a little hipcritical dont ya think

wow..... you know satmars dont believe in the state of israel so why dont you give it a rest. israel wasn't mentioned once

yeah, people forget catholics were persecuted, poles, ukrainians, hungarians, french, slavs, gays, handicapped, gypsies....and remember when that holocaust museum was protested for refusing to allow an exhibit on gays or something?

kinda hypocritical, huh?

Weird, we just learned my great grand mother left/fled Germany in the 1910s or 20s and gave up judaism, family lore now has it she "saw the writing on the wall". So then she has my grandmorther who tried to ride a bike once "hated it" and never tried it again.

I however approve of both bike lanes and scantily clad women. But I prefer the women on foot, much easier to catch. Catch up to that is. Not actually catch and put in my basement. Seriously I don't have a basement. Or a van. Honest.

There was a lot of writing on the wall - literally and metaphorically. Parts of my family fled Eastern Europe around the same time your great-grandmother did, others stayed behind. Guess who survived.

how is this related to NYC?

surely this is news of major interest. stellar reportage. hope this is covered every day for the next decade. worthy of a pulitzer.

While I'm all for proving Hitler wrong, I'm not down with that degree of reproduction. Seems really not environmentally responsible.

Tell that to India and China, but don't say this to someone who lost literally 1/3 of her people to the Nazis.

Yeah, I feel like having most of your people annihilated by a bunch of Germans exempts you from the too-many-children restrictions.

how many of those kids are productive members of society instead of on the dough?

The correct phrase is on the dole.

Vat? Pineapple izn't enough?

Oh, Armchair.

may the schwartz be with you

Good one.

this is great news really.

What are you saying? Good riddance?

oh sh1t, no! did not think of this interpretation. i meant good news about 2000 descendants.

may her poor vagina rest in peace, amen