kiryas joel
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village in Orange County, New York, United States, coterminous with the town of Palm Tree.
Example Sentences
- "Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States."
- "The village of Kiryas Joel, coterminous with the town of Palm Tree, is a well-known Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community."
- "Oliveira couldn’t seem to decide if the point of his videos was to make a point about welfare — he vacillates between claiming Orthodox Jews are engaged in fraud and acknowledging they legitimately qualify for programs like Medicaid and food stamps that he doesn’t think taxes should pay for, at least when it comes to large Jewish families — or to hold up the Jewish communities in Kiryas Joel and Lakewood as models for white Americans."