FLORIDA
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Josh Nathan-Kazis
May 17, 2016
A wealthy and politically connected leader of the Williamsburg-based Satmar Hasidic sect drowned May 17 in Miami Beach, Florida.
Yitzchak Rosenberg, 67, was the president of Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar, the central religious organization in Brooklyn of the followers of the Kiryas Joel, New York-based Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, and a founder of the sect’s yeshiva system in Brooklyn. Rosenberg was also a major Brooklyn real estate developer and the owner of a building supply wholesaler.
Rosenberg was one of five Hasidic men pulled to sea by rip currents off of Miami Beach’s Haulover Beach on Tuesday morning, according to Miami television station Local 10. Three of the men were retrieved by jet ski, while two others reached shore on their own.
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