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Zalman Teitelbaum

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Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, delivering an address to his students

Grand Rabbi Zalman Leib (Yekusiel Yehuda) Teitelbaum (b. 1952) is one of two Rebbes of Satmar, and the third son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the late rebbe of the Satmar Hasidim. He is the son-in-law of the previous Bistritzer Rebbe of Brooklyn. He is a Rabbi of the Satmar congregation of Williamsburg and the Dean of a Satmar Yeshiva of Queens.

Prior to taking up his position in Williamsburg, Rabbi Teitelbaum was the rabbi of the Satmar in Jerusalem. Before that, he was the rabbi of the Sighet Synagogue in Boro Park, which had been his father's synagogue.