Melitz
Melitz was a Galician Hassidic dynastic sect, a branch of the Ropshitz Hasidic sect. The progenitor of the dynasty was Rabbi Ya'akov Horowitz, the son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz of Ropshitz. Rabbi Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz. Grand Rabbi Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz is the current Melitzer Rebbe of Ashdod, Israel and author of the "Peiros Hailan" halachic discourses on the laws of "Chol HaMoed" and the "Nefesh Chaya" a commentary and linear interpretation of the Book of Psalms. The Melitzer Rebbe is the grandson of the Shotzer Rebbe of London, and a seventh generation patrilineal descendant of Rebbe  Yechiel Michal of Zolochiv. His saintly grandfathers also include the Baal Shem Tov, The Degel Machane Ephraim, The Noam Elimelech, Rebbe Meir of Premishlan, Rebbe Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz, and other well-known "tzaddikim". Grand Rabbi Moscowitz is married to Mrs. Shaindel Kahana Stern of London, daughter of an understudy of the Shotzer Rov of London, the Melitzer rebbe's grandfather. In 1996, Rabbi Lazer Brody became the understudy of The Melitzer Rebbe, a position he kept for two years.