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City of Joel is a 2018 documentary film exploring tensions in the town of Kiryas Joel, where over 20,000 Yiddish-speaking Satmar Hasidim live. Tensions center on the Hasidic residents' desire to annex the land adjacent to their community to allow for their community's future growth. In the film, the Hasidic stance toward the local opposition is one marked by suspicion of local anti-Semitism, insisting their case is one of constitutional rights to practice their religion. The documentary was directed by filmmaker Jesse Sweet.^[1]

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Documentaries	Religious America: Lubavitch (1974) The Return: A Hasidic Experience (1979) King of Crown Heights (1992) A Life Apart: Hasidism in America (1997) Blacks and Jews (1997) The Return of Sarah's Daughters (1997) Trembling Before G-d (2001) Welcome to the Waks Family (2003) Hiding and Seeking (2004) Keep Not Silent (2004) A Cantor's Tale (2005) Say Amen (2005) Paper Dolls (2006) Yoel, Israel & Pashkavils (2006) Let There Be Light (2007) And Thou Shalt Love (2008) Gut Shabbes Vietnam (2008) Leaving the Fold (2008) Punk Jews (2012) Project 2x1 (2013) Shekinah Rising (2013) Code of Silence (2014) Hasidic Actors Guild (2014) Sacred Sperm (2014) Strictly Jewish (2016) Kosher Love (2017) One of Us (2017) 93Queen (2018) City of Joel (2018) Outback Rabbis (2018) The Rabbi Goes West (2019)
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City of Joel

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