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Yehuda Leib "Leibel" Groner (Yiddish: יהודה ליב גראנער; April 25, 1931 – April 7, 2020) was an American Hasidic Jewish teacher, scholar, and author. He is best known for having served as the personal secretary to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, for 40 years.
Many of these dynasties have presently few or no devotees, due to most of the Hasidic groups being destroyed during the Holocaust, 1939–1945. Other communities are flourishing, and have growing Hasidic sects. There are many dynasties whose followers number around five to fifteen people, and are not listed here.
Tzivos Hashem (Hebrew: 'צבאות ה Tzi vōt Ha Shem lit. ' Army of God ' [1]) is an organization based in Brooklyn, New York, that was founded in 1980 as a youth group within the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
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 .
Chabad offshoot groups are those spawned from the Chabad Hasidic Jewish movement. Many of these groups were founded to succeed previous Chabad leaders, acting as rivals to some of the dynastic rebbes of Chabad. Others were founded by former students of the movement, who, in forming their own groups, drew upon their experiences at Chabad.
Together with an accompanying six-hour video, filmed by the producers of 20/20, featuring Blech, it is used as the basis for study groups in numerous synagogues and universities around the country. In the 1980s, Blech was asked by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to travel to the Far East on a speaking tour. Schneerson paid ...
Nico Murray is leaving Essex University. Gavin Leatherwood will not reprise his roleas the campus heartthrob in the second season HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. 'The Sex Lives of ...
Unger was born to Yaakov Yitzchok Unger of Dombrov. [1] [2] He is the younger son-in-law of Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth Bobover Rebbe.[1]Following the death of his father-in-law right before the Purim holiday in 2005, [3] a dispute arose as to who should be the Grand Rebbe of the then 120,000 Bobov Hasidim worldwide. [1]