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Tlusta Rav
d. 2 Sivan, 1947
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Directions to kever:
Mount Hebron Cemetery
130-04 Horace Harding Expressway
(Main Street Cemetery in Kew Gardens Hills)
Flushing, NY 11367
(Block: 10, Reference: 2, Section: A-C, Line: 16, Grave: 51, Society: Anshe Dombrowa, along the road)

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President of the Agudath HaRabonim
d. 9 Shevat, 1968
Full bio to be posted.
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Directions to kever:
Knesset Israel Cemetery
Anderson Ferry Road (corner Sidney Road)
Cincinnati, OH 45238
(Enter the cemetery at the main gate in the middle section to the left is Rav Silver’s tzion.)

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Chief Rabbi of Portland, Maine
d. 10 Teves, 1920 (5681)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Society: Machizika Hadas, Block: V, Path: 5, Bethel Avenue towards the back on the right side)

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Grand Rabbi of Ujhel – Chicago
d. 5 Elul, 1995
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Directions to kever:
Vizhnitzer Cemetery in Monsey, NY
RT. 306 (at the intersection of Brick Church Rd))
Spring Valley, NY 10977

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Hodhahzer Rav
d. 1 Tishrei, 1991 (5752) Rosh Hashanah
The Rav upon his arrival to these shores settled on Manhattan’s West Side, where he opened a Bais Medrash. Soon after the passing of Rav Yonoson Steif he was asked to lead the Vienner Kehillah in New York which he faithfully served for close to 30 years.
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President of the Knesseth HaRabonim
d. 10 Elul, 1935
Rav Velvele married the daughter of Rav Nachum Kaplan, the famed Rebbe of the Chofetz Chaim. After moving to the United States in 1907, the Rav was appointed as the Chief Rabbi of Boston, MA where he established the Knesseth HaRabonim HaOrthdoksim d’America v’Canada, prior to moving to [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Hartford, CT
d. 22 Tammuz, 1936 (5696)
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Directions to kever:
Chevra Lomday Mishnayos Cemetery
Garden Street (and Tower Avenue)
Hartford, CT 06120

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Chief Rabbi of Argentina
d. 17 Tammuz, 1998 (5748)
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Directions to kever:
Wellwood Cemetery
Wellwood Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735
(Corner of North and Zangwill Avenue, Block: 54, Section: Tiferes Jerusalem)

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Chief Rabbi of Petrograd (Saint Petersburg)
d. 9 Cheshvan, 1943
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Directions to kever:
Mount Zion Cemetery
59-63 54th Avenue
(Off Maurice Avenue)
Maspeth, NY 11378
(Path: DL, Gate: 3)

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Chief Rabbi, Svencion, Poland
d. 15 Elul, 1941 (5701)
Rav Luski who passed away a few short months after his arrival in New York was among the prominent rabbanim of Poland.
Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003
(Location: E-9, Corner of [...]

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Serdehaly Rav
d. 27 Adar, 1997
In 1957, the Rav was appointed Av Bias Din of the newly establishment Skverer community in Spring Valley, New York.
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Directions to kever:
Village of New Square Cemetery
Grant Avenue
Spring Valley, NY 10977
(Opposite the ohel)

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Chief Rabbi of Pittsburgh, PA
d. 11 Av, 1936 (5696)
Rav Sivitz was born in Zhitovyan (Kovno), Lithuania and studied in the Yeshivos of Slovan and Chelm, where he became a close disciple of Rav Eliezer Gordon, the Telzer rosh yeshiva. He also received semicha (ordained) from Rav Gordon and additional semicha from Rav Yitzchok Elchonon Spector, [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Brod, Galicia (Ukraine)
d. 23 Tammuz, 1987
Anyone with bio information is asked to send it in.
Washington Cemetery
104 Deans Rhode Hall Rd
Monmouth Junction (Deans), NJ 08852
(Bobover section, North Second Street corner Park Blvd. a few rows from the ohel)

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Chief Rabbi of Debrecen, Hungary
d. 2 Av, 1997
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Beth Israel Cemetery
US Highway 1
Woodbridge, NJ 07095

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Chief Rabbi of Cimpulung, Bukovina (Romania)
d. 5 Adar, 1980
Rav Rubin served as the President and Chairman of the Agudas Israel and Agudath HaRabonim of Romania. The Rav also founded Geder Avos an organization dedicated to stop the destruction of Jewish cemeteries throughout Eastern Europe.
Washington Cemetery (Floral Park)
104 Deans Rhode Hall Rd
Monmouth Junction (Deans), NJ 08852
(Bobover [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Buffalo, NY
d. 22 Iyar, 1943 (5703)
Full bio to be posted.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section Two
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Part of a larger stone, behind the office building, along Lincoln Avenue on the left side.)

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Chief Rabbi, Roselle, NJ
d. 4 Shevat, 1988 (5748)
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Directions to kever:
Mount Lebanon Cemetery – New Jersey
Gill Lane
Iselin, NJ 08830
732-283-1010

Photo Credit: Ira Sobel, Edison, NJ

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Chief Rabbi of Pawtucket, Rhode Island
d. 16 Teves, 1898
Rav Rabinowitz safer (book) Yad Yehuda was published in 1897.
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Directions to kever:
Lincoln Park Cemetery
1469 Post Road
Warwick, RI 02888
(401) 737-5333
(Ohel, along Feinberg Avenue)

Photo credit Mayer Abramowitz.

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Chief Rabbi of Los Angeles, California
d. 14 Shevat, 1973
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Home of Peace Memorial Park Cemetery
4334 Whittier Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90023
(323) 261-6135
Anyone with bio info is asked to please send it in.

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Chief Rabbi, Montreal, Canada
d. 27 Teves, 1998 (5758)
Rav Hirschsprung, a student of Rebbe Meir Shapiro served as the Chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1969 until his passing. The Lubliner once said that already as a youth he knew 2,200 talmudic folios by heart. The Rav also shared a very close relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Homel (Gomel), Belorussia
d. 29 Cheshvan, 1950
Full bio to be posted.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Old Mount Carmel Cemetery
83-45 Cypress Hills Street
Glendale NY 11385
(Section: 1, Block: E, Map: 39, Line: 12, Grave: 7, Society: HOMLER BROTHERS OLD)

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Chief Rabbi of Brooklyn, NY
d. 24 Teves, 1913
Rav Rosenberg was a founding member of the Agudath Harabonim.
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Directions to kever:
Mount Zion Cemetery
59-63 54th Avenue (off Maurice Avenue)
Maspeth (Queens), NY 11378
(Right Section, Path 30, Gate 9, a few graves in.)

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Moreh Dasrah Khal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ)
d. 13 Adar I, 1995 (Purim Katan)
Rav Shimon Schwab was born and grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His father was a longstanding members of the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft (IRG), the Orthodox Jewish community that had established its own independence from the Reform Judaism-dominated general community. The IRG had been [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Riga, Latvia
d. 15 Iyar, 1929
The Rav who passed away in his 90s was a moreh dasrah across two continents for over 70 years and wrote many seforim.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Jewish Cemeteries of Baker Street
776 Baker Street
West Roxbury, MA 02132
(Section: [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Springfield, Massachusetts
d. 9 Sivan, 1919
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Congregation Sons of Israel Cemetery
904 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01109
(413-739-9016)

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Chief Rabbi of Minneapolis, Minnesota
d. 11 Tammuz, 1984 (5744)
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Directions to kever:
Minneapolis Jewish Cemetery
7032 Penn Ave. South
Richfield, MN 55423

Photo Credit: Michael Morris

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Chief Rabbi of Allentown, PA
d. Nissan, 1955
Rav Kresky was a longtime member of the Agudath Arabonim.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Congregation Sons of Israel
Agudas Achim and Shaarei Sholom Cemetery
200 Catasauqua Aveenue
Fullerton, PA 18052
(610) 433-6089
(Agudas Achim Section)

Photo Credit: Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner, Moreh Dasrah Allentown, PA

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Chief Rabbi of Indianapolis, Indiana
d. 7 Av, 1949 (5709)
Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Shara Tefilo Cemetery
West Kelly Street
Indianapolis, IN 46225
(Between W Raymond Street and Bluff Road, Gate: 4)

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Chief Rabbi Hartford, CT
d. 14 Iyar, 1966
The Rav, who studied in Slabodka was the son in law of the baal Damesek Eliezer, Rav Eliezer Nitsberg.
Anyone with information is asked to send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Adas Israel Cemetery
Garden Street (and Tower Avenue)
Hartford, CT 06120
(Front row to the right of the entrance)
(Part [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Mahilyow (Belarus) on the Dnieper River
d. 26 Cheshvan, 1941
Rav Simcha was the youngest son of the Beis Halevi.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Judah Road last section before Sinai Avenue on the left side, [...]

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