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 | | It all began in the town of Góra Kalwaria near Warsaw, Poland, home of Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, the founder of Ger Hassidism. |
 | | Two other MKs, Shmuel Halpert, a Vizhnitz hassid, and Meir Porush, who is descended from members of the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem, are also subordinate to the Gerer rebbe. |
 | | The Gerer hassidim have dozens of yeshivas for young men and older men, as well as schools for boys and girls, run by Rabbi Nachman Vidislavsky, with a population totaling 24,000 students. |
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