בעריקינג ניוס: אפעלאט שיקט סאטמאר קעיס קיין ALBANY

The Appellate Division, Second Department, last week granted the Kiryas Joel faction of the Satmar Orthodox Jewish sect leave to appeal a pair of decisions to the Court of Appeals. The rulings in Matter of Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar, 9716 — 04, left the Williamsburg faction in control of both the sect and its assets, which include a private school system and business and real-estate assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The dispute is between the followers of the two sons of Grand Rebbe Moses Teitelbaum, who died last April. Rabbi Zalmen Teitelbaum leads the Williamsburg group and Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum leads the group in Kiryas Joel, Orange County. The Second Department had ruled in July that the dispute involved determinations of religious doctrine beyond the ken of the courts. The ruling left in tact a determination by the grand rebbe that a 2001 election had put the Williamburg faction in control of the sect. - Daniel Wise

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