Editing Haredi Judaism (section)

====New York state====
Most American Haredi Jews live in the [[New York metropolitan area|greater New York metropolitan area]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Berger|first1=Joseph|title=Aided by Orthodox, City's Jewish Population Is Growing Again|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/nyregion/new-yorks-jewish-population-is-growing-again.html?_r=0|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 11, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Goldberg|first1=J. J.|title=Time To Rethink the New York Jew: Study Leaves Out Suburbs and Ignores Splits Among Orthodox|url=http://forward.com/articles/157785/time-to-rethink-the-new-york-jew/?p=all|access-date=16 June 2014|publisher=The Jewish Daily Forward|date=June 15, 2012}}</ref>

=====New York City=====
======Brooklyn======
[[File:Hasidic Family Scene - Borough Park - Hasidic District - Brooklyn - New York.jpg|thumb|Hasidic family on the street in [[Borough Park, Brooklyn|Borough Park]], [[Brooklyn]]]]
The largest centers of Haredi and Hasidic life in New York are found in [[Brooklyn]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Debra|first1=Nussbaum Cohen|title=As New York Haredim multiply, Jewish Federation faces a quandary|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/as-new-york-haredim-multiply-jewish-federation-faces-a-quandary.premium-1.504547|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=Haaretz|date=February 19, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Shwayder|first1=Maya|title=NY Jewish community wields growing political power: High birthrate of ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic communities expected to have great impact on future votes.|url=http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/NY-Jewish-community-wields-growing-political-power-326599|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=2013-09-20}}</ref>

* In 1988, it was estimated that there were between 40,000 and 57,000 Haredim in the [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]] neighborhood of [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], Hasidim most belonging to [[Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)|Satmar]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Berger|first1=Joseph|title=Divisions in Satmar Sect Complicate Politics of Brooklyn Hasidim|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/nyregion/satmar-rift-complicates-politics-of-brooklyn-hasidim.html|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 5, 2012}}</ref>
* The Jewish population in the [[Borough Park, Brooklyn|Borough Park]] neighborhood of Brooklyn, estimated at 70,000 in 1983, is also mostly Haredi, and also mostly Hasidic.<ref name = "Baumel"/> The [[Bobov (Hasidic dynasty)|Bobov Hasidim]] are the largest single bloc that mainly live in Borough Park.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fox|first1=Margalit|title=Naftali Halberstam Dies at 74; Bobov Hasidim's Grand Rabbi|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/obituaries/25halberstam.html|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 25, 2005}}</ref>
* [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]] is the home base of the worldwide [[Chabad|Chabad-Lubavitch]] movement, with its network of [[Shaliach (Chabad)|shluchim]] ("emissaries") heading [[Chabad house]]s throughout the Jewish world.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brenner|first1=Elsa|title=Two Groups Contest Role in Promoting Lubavitch Judaism's Cause in the County|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/03/nyregion/two-groups-contest-role-in-promoting-lubavitch-judaism-s-cause-in-the-county.html|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 3, 1994}}</ref><ref name=chabadquestion/>
* The [[Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush]]-[[Midwood, Brooklyn|Midwood]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Weichselbaum|first1=Simone|title=Nearly one in four Brooklyn residents are Jews, new study finds: Growing Orthodox families across the borough account for most of the increase|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-residents-jews-new-study-finds-article-1.1100080|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=The New York Daily News|date=June 26, 2012}}</ref> [[Kensington, Brooklyn|Kensington]],<ref name="Sliding to the Right">{{cite book|last1=Heilman|first1=Samuel C.|title=Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy|date=2006|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=9780520247635|pages=73–74|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4thrVPivwC0C&q=kensington+haredi+jews&pg=PA73|access-date=16 June 2014}}</ref> [[Marine Park (neighborhood), Brooklyn|Marine Park]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Machberes/Matzav.com|title=Shea Rubenstein Claims Marine Park is "Fastest-Growing Jewish Community in the World|url=http://matzav.com/shea-rubenstein-claims-marine-park-is-fastest-growing-jewish-community-in-the-world|access-date=16 June 2014|publisher=The Jewish Press/Matzav.com|date=November 17, 2010}}</ref> neighborhoods have tens of thousands of Haredi Jews. They are also the centers for the major non-Hasidic Haredi yeshivas such as [[Yeshiva Torah Vodaas]], [[Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin]], [[Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn)|Mir Yeshiva]], as well as a string of similar smaller yeshivas. The Torah Vodaas and Chaim Berlin yeshivas<ref name="World of the Yeshiva">{{cite book|last1=Helmreich|first1=William B.|title=The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry|date=1982|publisher=The Free Press - Macmillan Publishing Company/Republished by Ktav Publishing (2000)|location=New York, New York|isbn=978-0881256420|pages=200, 226–228, 236–238}}</ref> allow some students to attend college and university, presently at [[Touro College]], and previously at [[Brooklyn College]].<ref name="World of the Yeshiva" />

======Queens======
The New York City borough of [[Queens]] is home to a growing Haredi population, mainly affiliated with the [[Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen|Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim]] and [[Yeshivas Ohr HaChaim]] in [[Kew Gardens Hills, Queens|Kew Gardens Hills]] and [[Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah]] in [[Kew Gardens, Queens|Kew Gardens]]. Many of the students attend [[Queens College, City University of New York|Queens College]].<ref name="World of the Yeshiva" /> There are major yeshivas and communities of Haredi Jews in [[Far Rockaway, Queens|Far Rockaway]],<ref name="Sliding to the Right" /> such as [[Yeshiva of Far Rockaway]] and a number of others. Hasidic [[shtibel]]ach exist in these communities as well, mostly catering to Haredi Jews who follow Hasidic customs, while living a Litvish or Modern Orthodox cultural lifestyle, although small Hasidic enclaves do exist, such as in the Bayswater section of Far Rockaway.

======Manhattan======
One of the oldest Haredi communities in New York is on the [[Lower East Side]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Diner|first1=Hasia R. Diner|title=Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America|date=2000|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, New Jersey|isbn=978-0691095455|pages=98–99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bRggy_feylAC&q=Lower+East+side+ultra+orthodox&pg=PA98|access-date=16 June 2014}}</ref> home to the [[Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem]].

[[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]], in northern Manhattan, is the historical home to German Jews, with [[Khal Adath Jeshurun]] and [[Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Geberer|first1=Raanan|title='Ultra-Orthodox Jews': who are they?|url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/opinion-ultra-orthodox-jews%E2%80%99-who-are-they-2013-03-28-163000|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=March 28, 2013}}</ref> The presence of [[Yeshiva University]] attracts young people, many of whom remain in the area after graduation.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Oppenheim|first1=Rivka|title='Washington Heights Jews Caught In A Growth Bind|url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/washington-heights-jews-caught-in-a-growth-bind/|access-date=14 December 2019|publisher=The New York Jewish Week|date=August 11, 2010}}</ref>

======Long Island======
The [[Sh'or Yoshuv|Yeshiva Sh'or Yoshuv]], together with many synagogues in the [[Lawrence, Nassau County, New York|Lawrence]] neighborhood and other [[Five Towns]] neighborhoods, such as Woodmere and Cedarhurst, have attracted many Haredi Jews.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Eisenberg|first1=Carol|title=A clash of cultures in the Five Towns|url=http://long-island.newsday.com/search/a-clash-of-cultures-in-the-five-towns-1.730047|access-date=16 June 2014|publisher=US Newsday|date=June 10, 2006}}</ref>

=====Hudson Valley=====
The [[Hudson Valley]], north of New York City, has the most rapidly growing Haredi communities, such as the Hasidic communities in [[Kiryas Joel, New York|Kiryas Joel]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.koreatimesus.com/neighbors-riled-as-insular-hasidic-village-seeks-to-expand/|title=Neighbors riled as insular Hasidic village seeks to expand|newspaper=The Korea Times|date=February 27, 2017|access-date=March 4, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=McKenna|first1=Chris|title=CENSUS 2010: Orange population growth rate 2nd highest in state, but lower than expected Sullivan and Ulster also recorded increases|url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110325/NEWS/103250372|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=Times Herald-Record|date=2011-03-25|archive-date=August 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816232601/http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20110325%2FNEWS%2F103250372|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Santos|first1=Fernanda|title=Reverberations of a Baby Boom|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/nyregion/27orange.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1402916448-wqKHxkVEUEm73jUqKbCuDw|access-date=16 June 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 27, 2006}}</ref> of [[Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)|Satmar]] Hasidim, and [[New Square, New York|New Square]] of the [[Skver (Hasidic dynasty)|Skver]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jewish Virtual Library|title=New Square|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14800.html|website=jewishvirtuallibrary.org|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library/Encyclopedia Judaica|access-date=16 June 2014}}</ref> A vast community of Haredi Jews lives in the [[Monsey, New York]], area.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jewish Virtual Library|title=Rockland County|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_16829.html|website=jewishvirtuallibrary.org|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library/Encyclopedia Judaica|access-date=16 June 2014}}</ref>