Satmar community

‘Unorthodox’ Author’s Claim Of Cover-up Is Countered

Coroner’s report lists 20-year-old’s death in Kiryas Joel as suicide, not murder.

02/21/2012
Special To The Jewish Week

With allegations of communal cover-ups involving child sexual abuse dogging the haredi community over the past several years, it may not be much of a stretch for some readers to believe a gruesome story that appears in a new memoir about growing up in, and leaving, the Satmar community.

Deborah Feldman’s book about her departure from haredi life includes the account of a Satmar man’s suspicious death.
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