FRANKEL v. CONGREGATION YETEV. LEV. D'SATMAR

22110-2002.

2008 NY Slip Op 51779 (U)

SHOLEM ELIEZER FRANKEL, ABRAHAM KLEIN, MOSHE GREEN and USHER GREEN, Plaintiffs, v. CONGREGATION YETEV LEV D'SATMAR, Defendant. CONGREGATION YETEV LEV D'SATMAR, INC., MOSHE SCHER, DAVID EKSTEIN, & ELIAS A. HOROWITZ, Plaintiffs, v. CONGREGATION YETEV LEV D'SATMAR, INC., SOL PERLSTEIN & UNITED TALMUDICAL ACADEMY TORAH V'YIRAH, INC., Defendants. Action No. 2 CONGREGATION YETEV LEV D'SATMAR, INC., JENOE KAHAN, SOL PERLSTEIN and JACOB SCHOENFELD, Plaintiffs, v. FRIEDMAN, BERL, ISACK ROSENBERG, SANDOR OBERLANDER, DAVID ECKSTEIN, DAVID MARKOWITZ, ELIAS A. HOROWITZ, BEN WERCZBERGER, DAVID HAUER and CENTRAL CONGREGATION YETEV LEV D'SATMAR, INC., Defendants.

Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County.

Decided August 22, 2008.


Decision and Order

MICHAEL A. AMBROSIO, J.

The three actions pending before this court are related to the on-going dispute within the Chasidic Satmar community as to who is the successor to the late Grand Rebbe Moses Teitelbaum, Rabbi Zalman or Rabbi Aaron, the Grand Rebbe's two sons. For more than six years the two factions led by Jenoe Kahan (hereinafter "Kahan") on behalf of Rabbi Zalman and by Berl Friedman (hereinafter "Friedman") on behalf of Rabbi...

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