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Aron Teitelbaum Terror, TV Report of Attack on Rabbi Weingarten.

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hit members of the Williamsburg haic Community are outraged some are calling for Revenge Matthew Schwarz is here now with the Tails Matthew it's an unusual story Rollin 25,000 members of the ultra Orthodox satmar sect live in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn about 20% of them reportedly don't like the chief Rabbi last night one of the main denters was attacked so he'd shut up Judah wi Garten is a man of Peace but a victim of violence the 41-year-old hdic rabbi suffered head and facial injuries when he was punched and kicked by what police say was a gang of 15 to 20 hdic youths it happened outside the rabbi's Bedford Gardens apartment building Tuesday night a neighbor John Perez says he saw the gang approach the rabbi they were arguing and stuff and then after five like 5 minutes later they just started beating him and kicking him and he started screaming and we all came over and we tried to stop him and they told us to mind our business because it was none our business and they had they had every right to do that what makes what happen here unusual is that the victim and his suspected attackers are members of williamsburg's usually close-knit satmar sect their legendary leader Rabbi Joel tidle Bal died in 1979 at the age of 93 his nephew Rabbi Moses title Bal is the current leader but some usually camera shy satmars say title Bal is greedy and puts himself above the talod the authoritative body on Jewish law after weine Garten criticized title Bal and the local Jewish newspaper in April Wine Garten's car was set on fire now a group of fellow denters say tidle bound was behind the attacks on Wine Garden Moses CID bomb his people orders his house you know maybe not his director but he wants to do it because he he hold a couple speeches a lot of people uh terrorized speeches he gave terrorist speeches to his congregation yeah we could though and threatened Revenge if it were me or one of my kids I would react in the same manner that's all I could say I'd have to retaliate the same way that they've what they've done to this man I'm sure the same thing would have to happen to them police say that they have no suspects in the case tonight Rabbi wein Garten is in stable condition at PW Hospital Rand he thank you spe [Music] try to sort out what happened Joseph Waldman was able to videotape the rioting crowd that kept him his wife and their eight children prisoners in their home for 2 hours breaking windows with a barrage of eggs and stones and chanting they'll kill them and um just the war men to be killed and in in in in Hebrew and Jewish this isn't the first time protest have gathered outside waldman's home but never so many waldman's been at odds with the leader of the 10,000 member sect the grand rabbi Moses tidle bound Walman ran election but he recently won a court case against the rabbi who barred the grand rabbi reportedly spoke in the synagogue across from waldman's home last night denouncing Waldman and his supporters the speech which incites the people to come to my house to Riot and to do anyone anything to do even to kill me I feel this is like an order Al Rashi which is an order and extinguish ex extension order less than 12 hours later only one member of this closed community would comment saying that Waldman was trying to destroy the community he would not say why we even went to the grand rabbi no