[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0q0apw585c"]Satmar Kiryas Joel Discrimination in 1994 - on 60 Minutes - YouTube[/ame]

A comment from a gentile:

i live in monroe ny next door to kiryas joel these people are destroying our village! literally they set thier own houses on fire just to collect the insurance money, they drive like morons, iv almost been hit multiple times, they smell bad, they are rude and worst of all they KNOW IT AND dont give a damn.

i once went to wash my hands in a deli in thier community and when i walked through the door dozens of people where staring me down, and first thing i noticed was a young hasidic male who appeared to have downs syndrome butchering an animal WITHOUT GLOVES(remember that for later)

so i was directed to the bathroom, when i entered the bathroom, it was literally a closet mabey 3ftx3ft with nothing but a urinal, like in schools NO SINK!! NO SINK?!, (remember the butcher with no gloves)? yet the butcher HAD NO GLOVES!!! EWWWW

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satmar_%28Hasidic_dynasty%29

Kiryas Joel (also known as Kiryas Yoy'l, "Kiryas Yo'el" or KJ; Yiddish: קרית יואל (Kiryas Yoyel) is a village within the town of Monroe in Orange County, New York, United States. The great majority of its residents are Hasidic Jews who strictly observe the Torah and its commandments, and belong to the worldwide Satmar Hasidic dynasty.

According to 2008 census figures, the village has the highest poverty rate in the nation. More than two-thirds of residents live below the federal poverty line and 40% receive food stamps.

Population growth is strong. In 1990, there were 7,400 people in Kiryas Joel; in 2000, 13,100, nearly doubling the population. In 2005, the population had risen to 18,300. The 2010 census showed a population of 20,175, for a population growth rate of 53.6% between 2000 and 2010, which was less than anticipated, as it was projected that the population would double in that time period.

"There are three religious tenets that drive our growth: our women don't use birth control, they get married young and after they get married, they stay in Kiryas Joel and start a family. Our growth comes simply from the fact that our families have a lot of babies, and we need to build homes to respond to the needs of our community. . . . As each successive generation of women becomes old enough to have children, the number of women of child-bearing age grows exponentially. The number of women who marry each year is the approximate number of new homes needed."

A 60-bed postnatal maternal care center was built with $10 million in state and federal grants. Mothers can recuperate there for two weeks away from their large families.

In the 1990s, the first clinical trials for the hepatitis A vaccine took place in Kiryas Joel, where 70 percent of residents were infected. This disproportionate rate of hepatitis A infection was due in part to Kiryas Joel's high birth rate and crowded conditions among children, who bathed together in pools and ate from communal food at school. Children who weren't infected with hepatitis A were separated into two groups, one receiving the experimental vaccine and the other receiving a placebo injection. Based on this study, the vaccine was declared 100 percent effective. Merck licensed the vaccine in 1995 and it became available in 1996, after which the hepatitis A infection rate fell by 75 percent in the United States.

According to 2008 census figures, the village has the highest poverty rate in the nation, and the largest percentage of residents who receive food stamps. More than five-eighths of Kiryas Joel residents live below the federal poverty line and more than 40 percent receive food stamps, according to the American Community Survey, a U.S. Census Bureau study of every place in the country with 20,000 residents or more. A 2011 New York Times report noted that, despite the town's very high statistical poverty rates, "It has no slums or homeless people. No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry. Crime is virtually nonexistent."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York