Kiryas

Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Residents lined up to vote at a polling station in Kiryas Joel, N.Y. Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman/Associated Press Tea party member Richard Pecore stood near a polling place at Kiker Elementary School in Austin, Texas.

Election Day 2010

So do religious communities like Kiryas Joel in Orange County, N.Y., a home to the Satmar sect of Hasidic Jews.

Andrew Reinbach: Sharia Law Threat: Right-Wing Boogeyman Andrew Reinbach 2011

So do religious communities like Kiryas Joel in Orange County, N.Y., a home to the Satmar sect of Hasidic Jews.

Andrew Reinbach: Sharia Law Threat: Right-Wing Boogeyman Andrew Reinbach 2011

So do religious communities like Kiryas Joel in Orange County, N.Y., a home to the Satmar sect of Hasidic Jews.

Andrew Reinbach: Sharia Law Threat: Right-Wing Boogeyman Andrew Reinbach 2011

Look at what went on with shunning a woman for not wearing stockings with visible seams - and thus charges of being bare-legged - in either Munsie or Kiryas Joel.

Women Erased in Israel, Flogged in Pakistan and Restricted in Afghanistan - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Thanks to Bush's attention (and, no doubt, his strong support of Israel), Hasidic enclaves — Kiryas Joel, north of Westchester; Lakewood, New Jersey; the Wickliffe suburb of Cleveland — voted as much as 95 percent for Bush, according to Diament, even though they had supported Al Gore by overwhelming percentages in 2000.

Beyond Belief 2005

Thanks to Bush's attention (and, no doubt, his strong support of Israel), Hasidic enclaves — Kiryas Joel, north of Westchester; Lakewood, New Jersey; the Wickliffe suburb of Cleveland — voted as much as 95 percent for Bush, according to Diament, even though they had supported Al Gore by overwhelming percentages in 2000.

Beyond Belief 2005

Anyone know if Fleischer has a chance to gain the support of the larger of the two Kiryas Joel voting blocs?

Think Progress » Rep. Ari Fleischer? 2006

And, yet, officially, at least, none of the nation's 3,700 villages, towns or cities with more than 10,000 people has a higher proportion of its population living in poverty than Kiryas Joel, N.Y., a community of mostly garden apartments and town houses 50 miles northwest of New York City in suburban Orange County.

NYT > Home Page By SAM ROBERTS 2011

The concentration of poverty in Kiryas Joel, pronounced KIR-yas Jo-EL is not a deliberate strategy by the leaders of the Satmar sect, said Joel Oberlander, 30, a title examiner who lives in Williamsburg.

NYT > Home Page By SAM ROBERTS 2011