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Yaakov Aryeh Alter
Yaakov Aryeh Alter (born in Lodz, Poland, 1939) is a Hasidic rabbi, and since 1996 has been the seventh rebbe of the Gerrer chasidim in Israel, with disciples and branches in Europe and the United States. Ger originated in Poland in the town of GĂłra Kalwaria ("Ger" in Yiddish) and its leader escaped Poland to the Palestine during the Holocaust.
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