By Nicholas Stix
In the picture above, the Chassid is wearing a classic Satmar streimel (expensive, fur-rimmed hat) and silky, embroidered suitcoat, as opposed to the (Chabad) Lubavitchers’ fedora and (usually) black suit and white, (usually) tieless shirt, under a long, black, wool coat. The Satmars (founded in Transylvania, Romania) and Lubavitchers (founded in Lyady, Belarus) hate each other with a passion. The Lubavitchers are lovers, while the Satmars are fighters. The Lubavitchers love all Jews, except Satmars, while the Satmars hate all Jews that are not Satmars and, due to an internal schism, many who are Satmars! They just love to hate—and to fight. They are the Scots-Irish of Judaism, while the Lubavitchers are the missionaries, though they only missionary secular Jews to repent or to return, depending on your translation, to orthodox Judaism.
At VDARE.
3 comments:
I find the information interesting. I'm Catholic from a Scott-Irish background. One side of the family is mostly protestant and the other side Catholic, but we all get along pretty well. We joke about our differences. I don't think there is the degree of animosity between Catholics and Protestants that used to exist. With all the hell the Muslim religion has brought, we non Muslims should get along better.
actually Lubavitchers are missionaries to all people - for Jews they spread their brand of Hasidic Judaism, and for non-Jews they spread the Seven Laws of Noah, and some a devotion to their Rebbe as Messiah
actually, the picture on the cover of the book was not from Postville, it was not even a real picture, but a photoshop job. The slaughterhouse in Postville was indeed owned by Lubavitcher chassidim. However, they did employ some Satmar chassidim as well, it was mostly a Lubavitcher operation in Postville.
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