Pinchas Menachem Alter

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Pinchas Menachem Alter
Title	Gerrer Rebbe
Personal
Born	(1926-06-09)June 9, 1926 Falenica near Warsaw, Poland
Died	March 7, 1996(1996-03-07) (aged 69) Jerusalem
Religion	Judaism
Spouse	Tzipora Alter
Children	Esther Lipl Moshe Betzalel Alter Shaul Alter Yehuda Aryeh Leyb Alter Yitzchak Dovid Alter Yaakov Meir Alter Daniel Chaim Alter
Parent(s)	Avraham Mordechai Alter Feyge Mintshe Biderman
Jewish leader
Predecessor	Simcha Bunim Alter
Successor	Yaakov Aryeh Alter
Began	7 July 1992
Ended	7 March 1996
Buried	7 March 1996 Sfas Emes Yeshiva, Jerusalem
Dynasty	Ger

Pinchas Menachem Alter (Hebrew: פינחס מנחם אלתר, June 9, 1926 – March 7, 1996), also known as the Pnei Menachem (פני מנחם), after the works he authored, was the seventh rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1992 until his death in 1996. From 1956 until he was appointed rebbe, he was a Rosh Yeshiva (dean of a yeshiva). He also served as a member and the president of the Torah Scholars Council and as the chairman of the Agudat Yisrael political party.^[1]