, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Friedlander is the current Liske

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rebbe.'' Hamodia''. Sep/11/13. p. D15. He is the brother of the

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(Hivniv) rebbe, author of ''Chasdei Avraham'', a work on

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in ''Halacha''. His father was Rav Yosef Friedlander, the author of the ''Tzvi V’Chammid'' on Torah and the Jewish holidays and a great-grandchild of the ''Ach Pri Tevuah'' of Liska. He is the author of the ''Chamudei Tzvi''. He became rebbe in 1971, after the death of his father. Rabbi Friedlander is also a descendant of Maharsha, as well as Rabbis Judah Loew ben Bezalel,

David HaLevi Segal David ha-Levi Segal (c. 1586 – 20 February 1667), also known as the Turei Zahav (abbreviated Taz ()) after the title of his significant ''halakhic'' commentary on the ''Shulchan Aruch'', was one of the greatest Polish rabbinical authorities. ...

, Joel Sirkis, Isaiah Horowitz, and Naphtali Cohen. Photos of Rabbi Friedlander are often published in the Jewish Connection, a weekly newspaper serving the Orthodox Jews of New York.

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