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Yochanan Shochet is the Loitzker Rebbe. He is the rebbe of a Chasidic community in Jerusalem.[ citation needed ] He is a brother of the rebbe of Stolin.[ citation needed ] Shochet's maternal grandfather and namesake, Yochonon Perlow was the Karliner Rebbe in Lutsk, and later (after the Holocaust), in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[ citation needed ]
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to many as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was a Russian-Empire-born American Orthodox rabbi, and the most recent rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn also known as the Tzemach Tzedek was an Orthodox rebbe, leading 19th-century posek, and the third rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
Yosef YitzchakSchneersohn was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic movement. He is also known as the Frierdiker Rebbe, the Rebbe RaYYaTz, or the Rebbe Rayatz. After many years of fighting to keep Orthodox Judaism alive from within the Soviet Union, he was forced to leave; he continued to conduct the struggle from Latvia, and then Poland, and eventually the United States, where he spent the last ten years of his life.
In Judaism, shechita is slaughtering of certain mammals and birds for food according to kashrut.
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The Kopust branch of the Chabad Hasidic movement was founded in 1866 by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schneersohn after the death of the third rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. The movement is named after the town Kopys in the Vitebsk Region of present-day Belarus, where Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schneersohn settled after his father's death.
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Radoshitz, also spelled Radishitz, is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Yisochor Ber Baron (1765–1843) of Radoshitz, also known as the Saba Kadisha. He was a student of the Seer of Lublin and of the Maggid of Kozhnitz. He was particularly dedicated to the mitzvah of Kiddush HaChodesh, the sanctification of the month.
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Skulen (סקולען) Hasidic dynasty was founded by Rav Eliezer Zusia Portugal. It was headed by his son, Rav Yisroel Avrohom Portugal until his death on April 1 2019. Its name is originated from Sculeni, a town in Bessarabia where Rabbi Eliezer Zusia was born and served as rabbi.
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