Congregation Arugas Habosem

Arugas HaBosem of Bridda is the name of a synagogue in the Glen neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. For over 50 years, its rabbi was Grand Rabbi Amram Taub, a scion of the Puppa Hasidic dynasty of Hungarian Jews.
Rabbi Taub lost 30 family members, including his first wife and five children, in the Holocaust. In the 1950s the Satmar Rebbe Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum asked him to come to Baltimore where he established this synagogue.
Rabbi Taub gained a reputation for showing a genuine love of people and an interest in improving their lives, for making peace between people, and for his joy in life and the opportunities it afforded for doing God's will. He married six times, the last time in 1993.
He died on 14 July 2007, and was buried in Kiryas Joel, New York, next to Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum. He was succeeded as Bridder Rebbe and as Rabbi of the congregation, by his son, R' Shaya Taub, and as assistan rabbi of the synagogue by his great nephew, Aron Tzvi Taub.

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