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Kiryas Joel

A purely Hasidic Jew community in Orange County, New York. Given that the women have prolific amounts of children and don't work after giving birth to their second child the town is among the poorest in the United States.
Poverty, strict religion, and beards, all in one: Kiryas Joel.
by Nick Weiner February 7, 2009
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