The State of Israel does NOT represent Judaism  ·  or the Jewish People.
About · Torah Jews · Natruna · Est. 2003
We carry forward a voice that did not begin in 2003.
It began in Sighet in 1887 — with a child named Yoel Teitelbaum, born into a dynasty that had already, for three generations, rejected the rising winds of political Zionism.
Founded
2003 · Brooklyn
Legal status
501(c)(3)
Endorsed by
12 authorities
Guided by
The Satmar Rebbe
Grand Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum
The Satmar Rebbe · 1887–1979
About · Torah Jews · Natruna
About Torah Jews
Torah Jews was founded more than twenty years ago by Rabbi Moshe Dovid Katz, at the request and with the encouragement of the Satmar community, to serve as an organized voice articulating the Torah-based opposition to Zionism. The organization is also known as נטרונא (Natruna). From its inception, this mission reflected the longstanding vision of the Satmar Rebbe, who emphasized the necessity of a dedicated body to communicate clearly to the nations of the world that the political entity known as the State of Israel does not represent the Jewish people nor authentic Judaism.

Due to the community's principled caution regarding modern technology and media, this responsibility was entrusted to Torah Jews to carry out faithfully and responsibly on its behalf.

Today, Torah Jews is a robust international organization representing Orthodox Jewish communities across the United States, Europe, and the Holy Land. Its work is dedicated to explaining the fundamental incompatibility of Zionism with Judaism on theological, halachic, and moral grounds, and to clarifying that Judaism is a faith rooted in Torah rather than a political or nationalist ideology.
Torah Jews maintains one official Twitter/X account only: @TorahJews. Any other accounts claiming to represent Torah Jews are unauthorized and do not reflect the organization's positions.
Torah Jews is not affiliated with Neturei Karta or any Neturei Karta-identified groups, nor do such groups represent this organization, its leadership, or its mission.
Torah Jews is funded entirely through the support of its members and community-based fundraising initiatives. It primarily serves Yiddish-speaking communities through an established network of hotlines, public lectures, educational programming, news updates, and published works.

The organization has produced extensive scholarly literature opposing Zionism in Lashon Kodesh, Yiddish, and English, and holds endorsements from leading Rabbinical authorities across the Orthodox world, including both factions of Satmar, the Eidah HaChareidis, the Central Rabbinical Congress, and the Roshei Yeshivas of Brisk.
Our · Core Values
What we stand for.
Torah Truth Above All
Israel shall not ascend to the Land as a wall — that is, collectively, by force of arms or political project.
Peaceful Resistance
Exile is a condition to be borne with humility — not the premise of a nationalist insurgency.
Unity in Diversity
We represent Orthodox Jews from all backgrounds — Hasidic, Litvish, Sephardic — united in this fundamental Torah principle.
Who We Are · Who We Are Not
Ten things to know, set plainly.

Who We Are

Torah Jews following 3,000 years of authentic tradition

A Torah-based educational body, teaching from classical sources in plain language without ideological manipulation

The voice of hundreds of thousands silenced by Zionist propaganda

Defenders of true Jewish identity against Zionist corruption

An organization that exposes how Zionism exploits and distorts Judaism

What We Are Not

A "fringe group" — that's Zionist propaganda

Self-hating Jews — we love Judaism, which is why we reject Zionism

Political activists — we're defending our religion from political hijacking

Alone — every Torah leader in history stands with us

Affiliated with Neturei Karta or any Neturei Karta-identified groups
Grand Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum
The Satmar Rebbe
1887 — 1979 · Sighet → Brooklyn
Part I · The Satmar Rebbe.
Grand Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum (1887–1979) — known to his followers simply as the Rebbe, and to the world as the Satmar Rav — was the founder of the Satmar Hasidic dynasty and the most consequential opponent of political Zionism in the twentieth century. His entire life was a fight against it.
Sighet, 1887.
Born to Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, Chief Rabbi of Sighet and a leader of Hungarian Orthodoxy. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all opposed the modern Zionist project from the moment it began. The position he would later articulate in Vayoel Moshe was not invented — it was inherited, studied, and then defended with unprecedented rigor.
The young rabbi, 1911–1934.
He forbade any contact with Zionists — including the Religious Zionist party Mizrachi — and aligned with the Munkacser Rebbe against the compromise position of Agudat Israel. This was not a fringe opinion. It was the mainstream of Hungarian Orthodoxy. In 1934, after years of struggle, he took office as Chief Rabbi of Satmar (Satu Mare).
The Holocaust.
When Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, the Rebbe was caught attempting to flee to Romania and sent to the Klausenberg ghetto, then to Bergen-Belsen. He survived via the Kastner train to Switzerland. His community — his yeshiva, his Hasidim, his world — was annihilated. He lost everything a person can lose, and emerged with his position on Zionism not weakened but deepened.
"Because of our many sins, in these past years we have suffered bitterly in ways that Israel has not suffered since it became a nation."
Vayoel Moshe · Introduction · 1959
Brooklyn, 1946.
He arrived in New York on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, 1946, aboard the Vulcania. He settled in Williamsburg with a small group of survivors and founded Congregation Yetev Lev. In 1951 he was appointed President of the anti-Zionist Eidah HaChareidis of Jerusalem. In 1955 he founded the Central Rabbinical Congress — which today still endorses this organization.
Vayoel Moshe, 1959–1961.
His magnum opus. Three treatises — on the Three Oaths, on settling the Land, on the Holy Tongue — that have been taught in yeshivas and study groups ever since. Excerpts are still distributed in synagogues worldwide every Shabbos. In 1967, he published Al HaGeulah V'Al HaTemurah, rejecting the theological claim that the Six-Day War was a sign of divine redemption.
His passing, 1979.
He passed away on the 26th of Av, 5739. Over one hundred thousand Jews attended his funeral. The town of Kiryas Joel — "Town of Yoel" — in Monroe, New York, is named for him.
The mission · In one sentence
"Not in our name."
This website exists so that what the Satmar Rebbe taught for fifty years is not drowned out by those who were never authorized to speak in the name of Torah Jewry.
Who guides us · Who endorses us
Guided by Torah leaders. Endorsed by the authorities of today.
The claim that Torah opposition to Zionism is a "fringe position" is itself Zionist propaganda. Here are the voices that guide this work — past and present.
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Grand Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum
The Satmar Rebbe
1887–1979
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Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
The Brisker Rav
1886–1959
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Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz
The Chazon Ish
1878–1953
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Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapiro
The Munkacser Rebbe
1868–1937
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Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman
Rosh Yeshiva · Baranovich
1874–1941
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Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
1848–1932
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Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
Rabbi of Frankfurt
1808–1888
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Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik
Reb Chaim Brisker
1853–1918
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Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum
Grand Rabbi of Satmar
Today · Kiryas Joel
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Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum
Grand Rabbi of Satmar
Today · Williamsburg
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Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik
Rosh Yeshiva of Brisk
Today · Jerusalem
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Central Rabbinical Congress
CRC · Hisachdus HaRabbonim
Institutional · Founded 1955
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Badatz of the Eidah Chareidis
Rabbinical Court
Institutional · Jerusalem
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Rabbi Yisroel Hager
Vizhnitzer Rebbe
Today · Bnei Brak
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Rabbi Dovid Feinstein
Rosh Yeshiva · Tiferes Yerushalayim
Today · New York
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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky
Posek ha-Dor
Recently · Bnei Brak
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Rabbi Tovia Weiss
Av Beis Din · Eidah HaChareidis
Today · Jerusalem
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Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch
Ra'avad · Eidah HaChareidis
Today · Jerusalem
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager
Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Monsey
Today · Monsey, NY
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Rabbi Yaakov Perlow
Novominsker Rebbe
Recently · Brooklyn
Portraits shown as placeholders pending photographic approval from each authority's office. The listing itself is authoritative: every name here is on the public record as a guide to or endorser of this work.
Part II · From his voice to ours.
In 2003, more than two decades after the Rebbe's passing, the Satmar community asked Rabbi Moshe Dovid Katz to establish an organized body to carry the message to a world that now lived on radio, television, and eventually the internet — media the Rebbe himself had kept at a distance.
Torah Jews (Natruna) was founded for that purpose. We are not a political organization. We are not a protest movement. We are a Torah-based educational body whose only job is to make sure the world knows that the State of Israel does not speak for the Jewish people, and Zionism is not Judaism.
Torah Jews is not affiliated with Neturei Karta or any Neturei Karta-identified groups. We maintain one official X/Twitter account, @TorahJews. We are funded entirely by community members and readers — no government money, no political money.
§ About
A voice that has always existed.
For 2,000 years the Torah taught one position on exile and return. In 2003, at the request of senior Satmar rabbis, we set out to carry that voice into the public square.
About · Torah Jews · Natruna
About Torah Jews
Torah Jews was founded more than twenty years ago by Rabbi Moshe Dovid Katz, at the request and with the encouragement of the Satmar community, to serve as an organized voice articulating the Torah-based opposition to Zionism. The organization is also known as נטרונא (Natruna). From its inception, this mission reflected the longstanding vision of the Satmar Rebbe, who emphasized the necessity of a dedicated body to communicate clearly to the nations of the world that the political entity known as the State of Israel does not represent the Jewish people nor authentic Judaism.

Due to the community's principled caution regarding modern technology and media, this responsibility was entrusted to Torah Jews to carry out faithfully and responsibly on its behalf.

Today, Torah Jews is a robust international organization representing Orthodox Jewish communities across the United States, Europe, and the Holy Land. Its work is dedicated to explaining the fundamental incompatibility of Zionism with Judaism on theological, halachic, and moral grounds, and to clarifying that Judaism is a faith rooted in Torah rather than a political or nationalist ideology.
Torah Jews maintains one official Twitter/X account only: @TorahJews. Any other accounts claiming to represent Torah Jews are unauthorized and do not reflect the organization's positions.
Torah Jews is not affiliated with Neturei Karta or any Neturei Karta-identified groups, nor do such groups represent this organization, its leadership, or its mission.
Torah Jews is funded entirely through the support of its members and community-based fundraising initiatives. It primarily serves Yiddish-speaking communities through an established network of hotlines, public lectures, educational programming, news updates, and published works.

The organization has produced extensive scholarly literature opposing Zionism in Lashon Kodesh, Yiddish, and English, and holds endorsements from leading Rabbinical authorities across the Orthodox world, including both factions of Satmar, the Eidah HaChareidis, the Central Rabbinical Congress, and the Roshei Yeshivas of Brisk.
Our · Core Values
What we stand for.
Torah Truth Above All
Israel shall not ascend to the Land as a
wall — that is, collectively, by force of
arms or political project.
Peaceful Resistance
Exile is a condition to be borne with
humility — not the premise of a
nationalist insurgency.
Unity in Diversity
We represent Orthodox Jews from all backgrounds — Hasidic, Litvish, Sephardic — united in this fundamental Torah principle.
Who We Are · Who We Are Not
Ten things to know, set plainly.

Who We Are

Torah Jews following 3,000 years of authentic tradition

A Torah-based educational body, teaching from classical sources in plain language without ideological manipulation

The voice of hundreds of thousands silenced by Zionist propaganda

Defenders of true Jewish identity against Zionist corruption

An organization that exposes how Zionism exploits and distorts Judaism

What We Are Not

A "fringe group" — that's Zionist propaganda

Self-hating Jews — we love Judaism, which is why we reject Zionism

Political activists — we're defending our religion from political hijacking

Alone — every Torah leader in history stands with us

Affiliated with Neturei Karta or any Neturei Karta-identified groups
Our founder's voice
The Satmar Rebbe.
Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum
Satmar Rebbe · 1887–1979
Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887–1979) was among the foremost Torah authorities of the 20th century. Having survived the Holocaust, he rebuilt the Satmar community in Williamsburg and devoted the remainder of his life to one central teaching: that political Zionism is fundamentally incompatible with Judaism, and that the silence of Torah Jews on this point would be historically catastrophic.
His two-volume work Vayoel Moshe remains the definitive halachic treatment of the question. Torah Jews exists to continue that work.
"The Zionists, with all their deeds, have led the Jewish people into the greatest catastrophe since the destruction of the Second Temple."
— Satmar Rebbe, Vayoel Moshe
What we do
Our work.
i.
Public statements.
When events demand a Torah response, we issue clear public statements — in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew — distributed to press and community.
ii.
Rabbinical scholarship.
We publish, translate, and distribute the writings of the gedolim on this question — from the Chofetz Chaim to the Satmar Rebbe to contemporary authorities.
iii.
Education.
Lectures, classes, and printed material for those inside and outside the community who want to understand what Torah Judaism actually teaches about Zionism.
Who we are
The Natruna community.
Natruna — "Guardians" — is a network of Torah-observant Jews in Brooklyn, Monsey, Monroe, Jerusalem, Antwerp, London, and Montreal, united in the conviction that the silence of the religious world on Zionism has done profound damage to Torah Judaism's standing in the world.
We work under the guidance of our rabbinical leadership, including Rabbi Moshe Dovid Katz, who serves as our primary public voice.