Today, the Kaliver dynasty has two branches, in Jerusalem and New York. The rebbe in Jerusalem is known as the
Kaliver Rebbe, () and the rebbe in New York as the
Kalover Rebbe, ().
Jerusalem Grand Rebbe
Menachem Mendel Taub was the Kaliver Rebbe in Israel. He was the son of the Rozler Rov and son-in-law of Grand Rabbi Pinchos Shapiro, the Kechneyer Rebbe, scion of the
Nadvorna Dynasty. In 1944, he was deported to
Auschwitz by the
Nazis, arriving there three days before
Shavuos. He was transferred from there to the
Warsaw Ghetto and the
Breslau concentration camp, and later to
Bergen-Belsen. Six months after the war ended, he discovered that his wife had survived, and they were reunited in
Sweden. In 1947, they migrated to the
United States of America, where he began his work in memorializing the Holocaust in
Cleveland, Ohio . Moving to Israel in 1962, he established
Kiryas Kaliv in
Rishon LeZion. The foundation stone was laid on 7
Adar 5723 (3 March 1963), the day of the
Yahrtzeit of the founder of the dynasty, Grand Rabbi Isaac Taub. Several years later, he moved his headquarters to
Bnei Brak. In 2004, the rebbe's court moved to Jerusalem. Since
World War II, the rebbe has traveled to millions of Jews with his story and the saying of
Shema Yisrael. He is also active in Jewish outreach and holds regular lectures for groups of professionals, including doctors and police officers. In addition, a network of Kollelim, an encyclopedia project, and several other divisions of Kaliv have been founded. He died on April 28, 2019, at the age of 96. At his funeral, it was announced that his step-grandson-in-law Rabbi Yisrael Mordechai Yoel Horowitz would be his successor. Currently, Rabbi Horowitz is building a holocaust museum upstairs from the Kaliv beis midrash in Israel, a project the previous Rebbe had initiated. A focus of the museum will be on the rabbis who were murdered in the Holocaust.
New York Grand Rebbe Moses Taub, the Kalover Rebbe, heads a synagogue in the
Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn. His father was the previous Kalover Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Menachem Shlomo Taub, the author of
Chakal Tapuchin. He was known for his world-travels where he would deliver lectures and private audiences to encourage Jews of all types to increase their commitment to Judaism. In the past few years, he has been paralyzed by
ALS, yet he continues to write Torah commentaries daily, via computer, and continues his outreach work despite his illness. ==Lineage of Dynasty==