Kiryas joel is a village in orange country, in my
neck of the woods. The population is nearly 100 % Hasidic, making the community
something of an enclave quite unlike anyplace else in upstate New York. In
1994, the Supreme Court struck down the Kiryas Joel school district, finding
that its existence violated the First Amendment's separation against church and
state. Some Hasidic dissents in the community have tried over the years to
strike down the existence of the village, but thus far they have been
unsuccessful.
This site was opened to expose the corrupted and
fraudulent actions of the religiously controlled Kiryas Joel Village, NY. Together
with other religious groups, the leaders of the KJ Village control in a
mafia-like manner, often under color of law, how community constituents must behave
and block the freedoms of whomever they deem problematic and a threat to their
mafia-control system.
The main purpose of this website is exposing in
public the real picture of Kiryas Joel village. The village is thoroughly
controlled by an organized body of religious groups under color of law. People
are completely deprived of their political powers and rights, facing harassment
on a day to day basis in KJ Village.
Women in Kiryas Joel usually stop working outside
the home after the birth of a second child. Most families have only one income
and many children. The resulting poverty rate makes a disproportionate number
of families in Kiryas Joel eligible for welfare benefits when compared to the
rest of the county; and cost of welfare benefits is subsidized by taxes paid
county-wide. Because of
the sheer size of the families (the average household here has six people, but
it is not uncommon for couples to have 8 or 10 children), and because a vast
majority of households subsist on only one salary, 62 percent of the local
families live below poverty level and rely heavily on public assistance, which
is another sore point among those who live in neighboring communities.
The KJ Village has a history of harassing people in
the community and abusing its political power to get what they want—regardless
of whose rights they trample on—in a way that no other city in this country has
ever done. The village and allied religious groups are involved in orchestrated
powerful and systemic church and state violations, civil rights violations,
violating free speech and freedom of religion, taking control of state and
federal courts, and systemic terror against those deemed a problem.
