[Avodah] yishuv EY

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In a message dated 5/29/2007 R' Eli Turkel wrote: 

>>SBA thinks Satmar is mainstream because he quotes the Sheloh  etc.
By mainstream I mean today's mainstream. How many yeshivot in EY  learn
VM and how many learn the thoughts of R. Kook and  RYBS?<<






>>>>>
To you and to me Satmar is not "mainstream" -- but I think you might  get a 
shock if you had the answer to this question:  how many Satmar babies  were 
born last year in the whole world (E'Y and chu'l) vs. how many non-Satmar  
charedi and DL babies were born?  How many babies are born in a  lifetime per Satmar 
woman vs how many babies per non-Satmar charedi or DL  woman?  I read 
somewhere that if present demographic trends continue (of  course they may change -- 
no one knows the future) then a hundred years from  now, 90% of the Jews in 
the world will be Orthodox -- and 90% of those will be  Satmar.

--Toby  Katz
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