Satmar Hasidim
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Satmar Hasidim
Moses Teitelbaum, the 91-year-old grand rabbi of the Satmar Hasidim, is severely ill. According to Satmar leaders, he has been hospitalized since Thursday and is on a respirator. Joel Weiss, a spokesman for one faction of the Satmar sect, said that he is in critical but stable condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, which is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and numbers more than 60,000 worldwide. Moses Teitelbaum, the 91-year-old grand rabbi of the Satmar Hasidim, is severely ill. He is in critical but stable condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, said Joel Weiss, a spokesman for one faction of the Satmar sect, which is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He had previously named Aaron, his eldest son, to run the second-largest Satmar congregation, in Kiryas Joel in Orange County.