Yaakov Aryeh Alter (Polish: Jakub Arie Alter, Hebrew: יעקב אריה אלתר, born 18 May 1939) is the eighth, and current, Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he has held since 1996. He lives in Israel, and has followers there and in the United States, Europe, and Canada. He is a member of the Presidium of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel.
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YaakovAryehAlter (Polish: Jakub Arie Alter, Hebrew: יעקב אריה אלתר, born 18 May 1939) is the eighth, and current, Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger...
was succeeded as rebbe by his nephew, YaakovAryehAlter, son of Simcha Bunim Alter. In 2019 his son Shaul Alter formed his own followership of Ger Chasidim...
three-month "waiting period" before accepting jobs in the government. Rabbi YaakovAryehAlter, the Gerrer rebbe, however, thought that all Agudat members should...
commentary on Genesis Rabbah Likutei Aviv Grand Rabbi YaakovAryehAlter of Ger Grand Rabbi YaakovAryeh Milikowsky of Amshinov At the Rebbe's Seder Table...
father Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter (the "Pnei Menachem"), in March 1996, his father's nephew, Rabbi YaakovAryehAlter, was crowned as Rebbe of the dynasty...
Book. Vol. 9. 2012. p. 82. Ettinger, Yair (Jan 1, 2013). "Hasidic leader Yaakov Friedman, the Admor of Sadigura, dies at 84". Haaretz. Retrieved Oct 14...
rationalist Przysucha School of Central Poland. The current Rebbe is YaakovAryehAlter. The third-largest dynasty is Vizhnitz, a charismatic sect founded...
Simcha Bunim Alter (Hebrew: שמחה בונים אלתר; April 6, 1898 – July 7, 1992), also known as the Lev Simcha (לב שמחה), after the works he authored, was the...
of the Beit Yaakov and Beit Petahia kindergartens and daycare centers, which he inherited from his father. In June 2022, YaakovAryehAlter, Rebbe of the...
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews, and YaakovAryehAlter who heads the Ger Hasidic dynasty, the largest Hasidic group in Israel)...
known as the Pnei Menachem. Gerrer Rebbe from 1992 to 1996. Rabbi YaakovAryehAlter (b. 1939), Gerrer Rebbe from 1996 to the present Rabbi Chanoch Heynekh...
in the United Torah Judaism political coalition. He was close with YaakovAryehAlter (the Gerrer Rebbe), a major supporter of Agudat Yisrael. Shteinman...
Ben Zion Rabinovich, Rebbe of Biala (Hasidic dynasty) [died 2024] YaakovAryehAlter, Rebbe of Ger (Hasidic dynasty) Shmuel Barzovski, Rebbe of Slonim...
sandek for innumerable baby boys. Rabbi Yissocher Frand relates that Rav Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman (the rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivat Ner Yisrael) also...
Yitzchak Meir Rotenberg-Alter (Yiddish: יצחק מאיר אלטער, Polish: Icchak Meir Rothenberg Alter, Hebrew: יצחק מאיר אלתר) (1799 – 10 March 1866), was the...
lecturer at Yeshivas Mir in Israel, son-in-law of Nachum Partzovitz YaakovAryehAlter (1939–), eighth and current[when?] rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of...
to Tel Aviv, and then to the Bayit Vegan neighbourhood of Jerusalem. YaakovAryeh Yeshaya Milikowsky, the Amshinover rebbe in the Bayit Vegan section of...
between the current Gerrer Rebbe YaakovAryehAlter and his first cousin Shaul over leadership of the Ger dynasty. YaakovAryeh made a change in the Gerrer...
commentary of Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky (Ridbaz). In 1905 when his brother-in-law, the second Gerrer rebbe—Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter died, some of the...
Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowicz of Peshischa (Yiddish: יעקב יצחק ראבינאוויטש פון פשיסחא; c. 1766 – October 13, 1813) also known as the Yid Hakudosh (lit. 'the...
Jerusalem Yaakov Perlow (1931–2020), the Novominsker Rebbe of Borough Park Yechiel Perr (born 1935), rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld...
following sixty-seven years by his only son, Henoch Leibowitz. Ginzberg, R. Aryeh Zev (April 2009). "A Builder of Torah". Chazaq. Archived from the original...
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