Kiryas Joel
| Kiryas Joel | |||
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| Nickname : KJ | |||
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| Location in New York | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1979 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | new York | ||
| County : | Orange County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 21 ′ N , 74 ° 10 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 20,175 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 6,956.9 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 2.9 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.9 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 213 m | ||
| Postal code : | 10950 | ||
| Area code : | +1 845 | ||
| FIPS : | 36-39853 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 2390923 | ||
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Kiryas Joel (also Kiryas Yo'el or KJ, Hebrew קרית יואל, "City of Joel ") is a village within the Town of Monroe in Orange County , New York State . The vast majority of the population are Hasidic Jews who live strictly according to the rules of the Torah and its commandments and belong to the Satmar movement, which is widespread worldwide.
Most residents speak Yiddish as their mother tongue. The Village has the youngest median age (15 years) of any settlement in the United States with a population over 5000. The Jewish residents of Kiryas Joel typically have large families, as is often the case with other Charedim communities. It also has the highest percentage of residents of Hungarian origin in the United States: in 2000, 18.9% of the population had Hungarian ancestors.
According to 2008 census data, the village has the highest poverty rate in the country - more than two-thirds of its residents live below the US poverty line; 40% get food stamps .
history
Kiryas Joel is named after Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum , the Rebbe of Satmar and the driving force behind the project. A few years before his death in 1979, Teitelbaum himself helped with the selection of the location for the future Jewish village. The rabbi, originally from Hungary, rebuilt the Satmar dynasty in the years after World War II ; the Satmars who founded Kiryas Joel came from Satu Mare in Romania .
In 1946, Teitelbaum and his followers settled in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York . In the 1970s, however, they decided to relocate the growing community to a location that, while not far from New York's business district, was nonetheless isolated from what they saw as the bad influences and immorality of the outside world. Teitelbaum's choice fell on Monroe; the land on which Kiryas Joel was to be founded was acquired in 1977 and 14 Satmar families settled here. When Rabbi Teitelbaum died in 1979, he was the first to be buried in the local cemetery. His funeral drew more than 100,000 mourners to Kiryas Joel.
Web links
- Kiryas Joel Voice - Official Website
Individual evidence
- ^ Kiryas Joel, New York city-data.com
- ↑ KJ highest US poverty rate, census says . recordonline