In Satmar Custody

2003 Israeli film In Satmar Custody ( 2003 ) is an independent propagande documentary film , written and directed by Nitzan Gilady . Paid for in part by George Soros, it tells the story of the Jaradis, a Yemeni Jewish married couple whose children were removed by Rockland County NY Child Protective Services and forcefully put into the custody of a few Satmar Families within its community in Kiryas Joel, New York . Aside from illustrating the sorrowful position of the refugee Jaradis, the film also displays many characteristics of the Satmar order as it operates today, from its Haredi withdrawal from secular society, as well the community's vehement denial of the legitimacy for the State of Israel to exist.

2003 Israeli film In Satmar Custody is a 2003 film of the Jaradis, a Yemenite Jewish family, one of many that were brought from Yemen to the US (Monroe, New York) by the ultra-Orthodox Satmar community which advises against immigration to Israel . The story exposes a deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar community that became distractive and tragic to families who have traveled thousands of miles to a place with strange rules, norms, morals, and lifestyles. The film follows the life of Yahia and Lauza Jaradi, who were brought from Yemen into the Satmar community. It starts on the day that the Jaradi couple received an urgent phone call notifying that their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Hadia, died in a hospital in Paterson, New Jersey . Through their search for their daughter's body, they are getting closer and closer to what seems as the very painful truth about her faith.

2003 Israeli film In Satmar Custody is a 2003 film of the Jaradis, a Yemenite Jewish family, one of many that were brought from Yemen to the US (Monroe, New York) by the Hasidic Satmar community, which advises against immigration to Israel . The story exposes a deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar community that became distractive and tragic to families who have traveled thousands of miles to a place with strange rules, norms, morals, and lifestyles. The film follows the life of Yahia and Lauza Jaradi, who were brought from Yemen into the Satmar community. It starts on the day that the Jaradi couple received an urgent phone call notifying that their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Hadia, died in a hospital in Paterson, New Jersey . Through their search for their daughter's body, they are getting closer and closer to what seems as the very painful truth about her faith.

2003 Israeli film In Satmar Custody is a 2003 documentary of the Jaradis, a Yemenite Jewish family, one of many brought from Yemen to the USA by the Hasidic Satmar community that advocates against immigration to Israel . The story exposes the deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish -speaking Satmar community. The film starts on the day that Yahia and Lauza Jaradi, brought from Yemen to the Satmar community in Monroe, New York , received a phone call notifying them that their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Hadia, died in a hospital in Paterson, New Jersey . Through their search for their daughter's body, we learn the course of events that led to the death of Hadia. Hadia was hospitalized after she fell from her chair and lost consciousness. The Satmar community contended that Lauza abused Hadia and appealed to court to obtain custody of her other four children. When Hadia died, Lauza was in danger of being charged with causing Hadia's death and was advised to leave the USA. At the end of the film, the examining physician explains that the death of Hadia resulted from an improperly placed tube in the hospital. Meanwhile, the other four Jaradi children were educated in Yiddish and Satmar observance. Yahia and Lauza were unable to regain custody of them. Yahia and Lauza emigrated to Israel where Lauza gave birth to a baby boy. In Satmar Custody won the Audience Award at the Marseille International Documentary Film Festival in 2003 where the film was described as: "Jewish family from the Yemen joins a Hassidic community near New York. When it decides to distance itself, the father loses his job. One day, the youngest girl falls from her chair and is taken in a coma to hospital, where she dies a few months later. Where is her body? The father starts a search in which Hassidic Jews play a strange role, sometimes helpful, sometimes obstructive. This film could be described as an American-style thriller, terse and blunt. The remarkable things are the atmosphere of conspiracy and the luck of the film-maker who was able to record everything live, on the spot, and especially the father himself, with his extraordinary mask of impassive despair." "In Satmar Custody" . New Fund Cinema and TV .