Kiryas Joel

English Etymology en yi קרית יואל. Proper noun Kiryas Joel en village co/Orange County s/New York c/US coterminous with the town of Palm Tree. en American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies https://jewishstudies.berkeley.edu/news/american-shtetl-making-kiryas-joel-hasidic-village-upstate-new-york 2024-03-21 Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. https://web.archive.org/web/20250401050539/https://jewishstudies.berkeley.edu/news/american-shtetl-making-kiryas-joel-hasidic-village-upstate-new-york en Lana Bellamy Orthodox communities see surge in population Times Union (Albany) Times Union https://www.timesunion.com/projects/2025/shifting-new-york/ultra-orthodox/ 2025-06-06 The village of Kiryas Joel, coterminous with the town of Palm Tree, is a well-known Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community. https://web.archive.org/web/20260916021014/https://www.timesunion.com/projects/2025/shifting-new-york/ultra-orthodox/ 16 September 2026 en Arno Rosenfeld After Minneapolis, a YouTuber comes for Jewish ‘welfare queens’ w:The Forward https://forward.com/news/antisemitism-decoded/808060/tyler-oliveira-kiryas-joel-lakewood/ 2026-02-25 Oliveira couldn’t seem to decide if the point of his videos was to make a point about welfare — he vacillates between claiming Orthodox Jews are engaged in fraud and acknowledging they legitimately qualify for programs like Medicaid and food stamps that he doesn’t think taxes should pay for, at least when it comes to large Jewish families — or to hold up the Jewish communities in Kiryas Joel and Lakewood as models for white Americans. https://web.archive.org/web/20260227013109/https://forward.com/news/antisemitism-decoded/808060/tyler-oliveira-kiryas-joel-lakewood/