Rabbi Yaakov Yehezkiya Grunwald (born April 17, 1948) is an American

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, the current leader of the Pupa Hasidic group in the United States.

Biography

He was born in

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, the second son of

Yosef Greenwald Yosef Greenwald ( he, יוסף גרינוואלד 1903 – Brooklyn 1984) was the second Rebbe of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty, and the charismatic leader of all the Pupa Hasidim. Prior to World War II, he was a rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Pápa, Hun ...

(the last rabbi of Papa, Hungary before the

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) and his second wife, Miriam. When he was a child the family emigrated to the United States, where his father founded the Pupa hasidic dynasty. He was married to Bracha Frieda. He served as a

dayan (rabbinic judge) A beit din ( he, בית דין, Bet Din, house of judgment, , Ashkenazic: ''beis din'', plural: batei din) is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Biblical Land of Israel. Today, it ...

and

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of the Pupa hasidim, and on his father's death 1984 succeeded him as the Pupa rebbe. Most of his followers live in the United States (mainly the state of New York) and Canada, and a few in Israel and London. {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwald, Yaakov Yechezkia II Greenwald family American Hasidic rabbis Hasidic rebbes Living people People from Williamsburg, Brooklyn 1948 births Mohels