State Supreme Court Judge: Satmar Dispute Must Go To Beis Din

A judge has ordered two rival factions of Satmar Hasidim to take their latest court fight to a rabbinical panel, a decision that could end nine years of litigation over which side controls the vast assets of the sect’s main congregation in Williamsburg.

Acting state Supreme Court Justice Victor Alfieri Jr. has ruled that the sect’s corporate bylaws require that a rabbinical court, known as a bet din, settle the bitter power struggle between Satmar groups in Kiryas Joel and Brooklyn.