Edah HaChareidis/Leadership
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Current leadership
The rabbbinical leadership of the Edah HaChareidis currently consists of:
- President (Nasi): Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik (Brisker Rov)
- Chief Justice (Gavad): Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss
- Head of Rabbinical Court (Ravad): Rabbi Moishe Sternbuch
- Rabbi Yaakov Blau
- Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Ulman
- Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer
- Rabbi Naftoli Hertzke Frankel
- Rabbi Yaakov Mendel Yuravitch
- Rabbi Yeshayeh Rosenberger
Chief Rabbis (גאב"ד) of the Edah HaCharedis
- 1919-1932: Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1849-1932)
- 1932-1948: Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1st) of Dushinsky (1865-1949), also known as the Maharitz
- 1947-1953: Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864-1953)
- 1953-1979: Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979)
- 1979-1989: Rabbi Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss (1901-1989; author of Minchas Yitzchak, formerly of Manchester Beth Din, England)
- 1989-1996: Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund (1904-1996; author of Ateres Yehoshua (Chassidei Satmar)
- 1996-2002: Grand Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky (1921-2003; son of Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, listed above), also known as the Maharim
- 2002-present: Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss (formerly dayan of Machsike Hadass community, Antwerp, Belgium)
Presidents (נשיא) of the Edah HaCharedis
- until 1979: Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979)
- 1979-2006: Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum of Satmar (1914-2006)
- 2006-present: Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, rosh yeshiva of Brisk
Other prominent rabbis affiliated with the Edah HaChareidis
- Rabbi Moshe Sacks
- Rabbi Yaakov Meir Shechter
Past members of the Badatz
- Rabbi Pinchos Epstein
- Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov Fisher (1928-2003), author of Even Yisroel
- Rabbi Moshe Halberstam (1932-2006)
- Rabbi Chanoch Dov Padwa
- Rabbi Binyomin Rabinowitz, previous Rebbe of Mishkenos HoRoim
Non-rabbinical leadership
- Gershon Stemmer, until his death 2007 lay leader of the Edah HaChareidis