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Zalman Leib Teitelbaum

Zalman Leib Teitelbaum

Also known as Grand Rebbe Zalman Leib Teitelbaum

1951 CE · Hasidic · New York

R. Zalman Leib Teitelbaum (b. 1951), the younger son of R. Moshe Teitelbaum (Berach Moshe), is the senior Satmar Rebbe of the Zali faction, based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He was appointed by his father shortly before the latter's death in 2006 over his older brother R. Aaron, triggering the still-unresolved Satmar succession split. He leads the larger of the two factions and oversees the Williamsburg main beit midrash, the largest Hasidic synagogue in the world.

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Leader of the Zali Satmar faction based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn since the 2006 succession split.

About New York

New York City is one of the great centers of Jewish history in the modern world, a place where generations of immigrants turned exile into renewal. From the first Sephardic Jews who arrived in New Amsterdam in the 1600s, to the vast waves of Eastern European Jews who filled the Lower East Side with synagogues, yeshivas, newspapers, pushcarts, and prayer, the city became a living crossroads of Jewish memory and creativity. In its streets, Jewish tradition met America, giving rise to new forms of learning, activism, literature, commerce, and communal life that continue to shape Jewish identity across the world.

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