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The Battle for the Court of Sadiger

JL;DR SUMMARY The article delves into the complex and dramatic succession process within the Sadiger Hasidic dynasty following the death of Rabbi Yisroel Moishe Friedman. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryJewish LeadershipHaredi CommunityRebbeHasidic DynastiesSadiger SectHasidic SuccessionRabbi Yisroel Moishe FriedmanRuzhyn LineageDynastic Politics

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London, Brent, United Kingdom
"While his grandfathers health declined and his father presided over the small but influential Sadiger community in the Golders Green neighborhood in northwest London, Meshi was his fathers eyes and ears in the Sadiger court in Israel."
Israel
"As the dust settled after the war, it became clear to the displaced Rebbes and their followers that the cosmopolitan Vienna was far more amenable than the towns and cities, crushed by war, from which they had fled."
Vienna, Austria
"While the fragile power dynamics played out in the Middle East, the gravitational center of the Ruzhner dynasty shifted in these postwar years to the States. In New York, the Boyaner Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedmanwho was Rabbi Mordechai Sholom Yosefs brother-in-lawled a devoted group of followers and held sway in the small but influential Orthodox community that was gathering pace on the East Coast."
New York, United States
"Presiding over a rump of followers in what was then still British Mandate Palestine, the Rebbes all threw themselves into communal work, principally via the non-Zionistic Agudath Israel organization in which they had all held senior honorary positions while living in Europe."

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