Satmar Barclays Event will Celebrate 80th Anniversary of Rebbe’s Rescue from the Nazis, Spearheading the Community’s Rebirth in NY | PR Newswire [Video]

Nearly 20,000 are expected to celebrate community’s revival and marvelous growth of its yeshiva system – defying its detractors and naysayers and challenging environment – at Satmar’s largest annual event to-date

, /PRNewswire/ — On Sunday, December 22^nd, close to 20,000 members and followers of the Satmar community – the largest Hasidic community – will file into the Barclays Center to celebrate the 80^th anniversary of the community founder’s rescue from the Nazis. The event, which is the community’s largest annual-celebration to-date, will mark the community’s marvelous growth, defying its detractors attacking Satmar and the Hasidic community and its yeshivas in general.

Headquartered in Williamsburg, Satmar boasts more than 100,000 members throughout New York and tens of thousands more worldwide. It is hard to fathom that this community started less than 80 years ago after the Hasidic community, based in Eastern Europe, was almost obliterated by the Nazis.

On the Jewish-calendar day of …