Edah HaChareidis/Leadership

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

1. 1919-1932: Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1849-1932)
2. 1932-1948: Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1st) of Dushinsky (1865-1949), also known as the Maharitz
3. 1947-1953: Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864-1953)
4. 1953-1979: Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979)
5. 1979-1989: Rabbi Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss (1901-1989; author of Minchas Yitzchak, formerly of Manchester Beth Din, England)
6. 1989-1996: Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund (1904-1996; author of Ateres Yehoshua (Chassidei Satmar)
7. 1996-2002: Grand Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky (1921-2003; son of Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, listed above), also known as the Maharim
8. 2002-present: Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss (formerly dayan of Machsike Hadass community, Antwerp, Belgium)

Presidents (נשיא) of the Edah HaCharedis

1. until 1979: Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979)
2. 1979-2006: Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum of Satmar (1914-2006)
3. 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

Obituaries of past members

• Obituary for Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss of the Eidah Chareidis
• Obituary for Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Fisher of the Eidah HaChareidis
• Obituary for Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Fisher, with much information about the history of the Eidah Chareidis
• Obituary for Rabbi Moshe Halberstam of the Eidah Chareidis