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Rosh Yeshiva, Pupa, Long Island City, NY
d. 14 Shvat, 5747 (1987)
The yeshiva has since moved to Kiryas Pupa located in Westchester County.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Kiryas Pupa Cemetery
340 Illington Rd.
Ossining (Westchester), NY 10562
(Look for sign on the left side Y.K.Y. Pupa.)

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 Rosh Yeshiva, Shearith Hapletah Sanzs Klausenberg
d. 11 Elul, 1986 (5746)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Beth Moses Cemetery
2030 Wellwood Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735
631-249-2290
Location: Along Jordon Road

Photo Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY

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Rosh Hayeshivah, Rabbinical Seminary of America (RSA)
d. 10 Nissan, 2008 (5768)
Rav Henoch Leibowitz, an only child, was born in 1918 in Salcininkai, Lithuania. The Rosh Yeshiva came to America in 1926 when his father Rav Dovid was hired by Mesivta Torah Vodath as a teacher. In 1933, Rav Dovid left Torah Vodath and founded Yeshivas [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 5 Shevat, 1917
Rav Alperstein was a founding member of the Agudath HaRabonim. His commentary on Talmud Yerushalmi Masechet Bikkuri, was the first safer (book) on Talmud Yerushalmi to be published in the United States.
Full bio to be posted.
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Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Vodath
d. 28 Av, 2001 (5761)
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
(Corner of Emanuel and Washington Avenue)

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Rosh Yeshiva Mishkan Israel, Philadelphia
d. 18 Iyar, 1925 (Lag BaOmer)
The Rav moved to Philadelphia in 1905 from Kiev, Russia.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Har Jehuda Cemetery
8400 Lansdowne Avenue
Upper Darby, PA 19082
(610) 789-2104

Photo Credit: David Weider of  Williamsburg

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Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 8 Tishrei, 1945
Anyone with information is asked to send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Corner of Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue Section V:1, left side, apposite the Yampole Rebbe)

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Rosh Hayeshivah, Rabbinical Seminary of America (RSA)
d. 15 Kislev, 1941
Reb Dovid Warshawer as he was known in Europe studied in Radin with his great-uncle, the Chofetz Chaim, Slobodka, and eventually the Slabodka Kolel.
In 1926, Rav Leibowitz came to the United States and joined Mesivta Torah Vodath, before opening his own yeshiva in 1933.
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Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 14 Nissan, 1960
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, Section T:5)

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Nitra Rosh Hayeshivah
d. 6 Kislev, 1957
Rav Weissmandl who was better known as Reb Michael Ber was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1903. In 1931 he entered the Nitra Yeshiva where he was considered a prize student of Rav Shmuel Dovid Unger, whose daughter he later married.
The Rav became known for his efforts to save the [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 1 Teves, 1953 (5714) Rosh Chodesh / Chanukah
Prior to his arrival in America the Rav was a R”M in the Yeshiva of Baranovitch.
Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Moriah Cemetery
685 Fairview Avenue,
Fairview (Bergen), NJ 07022
Unconfirmed

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Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin
d. 8 Iyar, 1955 (5715)
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
(Corner of Emanuel and Washington Ave, a few rows behind Rav Pam)

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Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 2 Kislev, 1940
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Carmel Cemetery
83-45 Cypress Hills Street
Glendale NY 11385
(Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Section: 1, Block: C, Map: 1A, Lot: 16 Grave: 4, footstone)

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R”M Telshe, Cleveland, Ohio
d. 29, Kislev, 2006 (5767) Chanukah
Rav Barkin was a son-in-law of Rav Eliyahu Meir Bloch.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Olive Cemetery
27855 Aurora Rd
Solon, OH 44139
(440) 248-5100
(Near the ohel of Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch)

Photo Credit: Jack Mueller, Lakewood, NJ

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Mashgiach, Yeshivas Ner Israel Baltimore
d. 11 Teves, 1973 (5733)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Shomrei Mishmeres Cemetery
6300 Hamilton Avenue
Rosedale, MD 21237
Photo Credit: S. Schecter, Baltimore, MD

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Rosh Yeshiva Telshe, Cleveland, Ohio
d. 28 Teves, 1955
Full bio to be posted.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Olive Cemetery
27855 Aurora Rd
Solon, OH 44139
(440) 248-5100
(Ohel)

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Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 20 Adar, 1971 (5731)
The Rav was born in Ostrolenka, Poland and studied at yeshivos in Lomza and Slobodka where he was among the outstanding students of Rav Dovid Tavil Meltcher and Rav Raphael Volozhiner. He received semichah (ordination) from Rav Shimon Shkop and again, in this country from Rabbi [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva Gedolah of Passaic
d. 25 Elul, 1981
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
(Corner of Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue, near the kever of the Yampole Rebbe)

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d. 27 Adar, 1960 (5720)
The Rav a prolific writer, contributed many articles to the Hamaor Rabbinical Journal and was a big proponent of Kedushas Bais Haknesses (the sanctity of the synagogue) awareness. It should be noted that it was intended for the Rav to be reinterred in Eretz Yisroel, however to date it is believed [...]

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Rav, Congregation Mogen Avroham Anshe Dukler
d. 3 Tishrei, 1954 (5715)
Rav Weiss was also the menahel (principal) of Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yaakov Yosef (RJJ) on the Lower East Side for many years.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Hebron Cemetery
130-04 Horace Harding Expressway
Flushing, NY 11367
(Block: 70, Gate: 10, Section: F/G, [...]

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Moreh Dasrah Khal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ)
d. 3 Iyar, 1980
The Rav was born in 1882 in Papa, Hungary. His father Rav Shlomo Zalman a talmid of the Ksav Sofer was married to Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch, youngest daughter, Sophie. After Rav Hirsch passing in 1888, Rav Shlomo Zalman was selected to replace him as the Moreh [...]

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Moreh Dasrah Bais Hamedrash HaGadol of Brownsville
d. 28 Nissan, 1969 (5729)
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
(Corner Emanuel and Washington Avenue)

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Moreh Dasrah of South Ozone Park, Queens
d. 10 Tishrei, 1981
Rav Perr, a talmid of the Slabodka Yeshiva was the Rav of South Ozone Park, Queens for over 50 years. His son Rav Yechiel Yitzchok Perr is the Rosh Yeshiva and founder of Yeshiva Derech Ayson in Far Rockaway, NY.
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Rosh Yeshiva Yeshiva Degel HaTorah, Monsey, NY
d. 18 Adar, 1994 (5754)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Monsey Cemetery
Brick Church Rd (off RT. 306)
Spring Valley, NY 10977
(Behind the Vizhnitzer Cemetery, at the end of the main road right,  first section on the left side)

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Congregation B’nei Jeshurun
d. 3 Tammuz, 1868
Rav Moshe Yaakov (Morris Jacob) Raphall was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1798. At the age of nine his father, a banker, took him to visit the King of Sweden and then to Copenhagen , where he was educated at the Hebrew grammar-school. He later received a Ph.D. degree from [...]

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Yeshivas Sha’ar HaTorah of Grodno
d. 20 Tishrei, 1975 (5736)
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
(Corner of Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue)

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Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 6 Sivan, 1920
Rav Sobel was also the Moreh Dasrah of Mesivta Tiferes Jerusalem prior to the arrival of Rav Moshe Feinstein in the late 1930’s. The Rav had a brother in New York, Rav Shmuel Dovid who authored Migdal Dovid on Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs).
Anyone with information is [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 3 Shevat, 1941
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 One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Judah Road last section before Sinai Avenue on the left side, Section T:5)

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Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
d. 7 Elul, 1936
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  Section One
83-45 Cypress Hills Street
Glendale NY 11385
(Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Section, second path, down the hill)

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Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Vodath
d. 28 Shevat, 2005 (5765)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Monsey Cemetery
Brick Church Road (off RT. 306)
Spring Valley, NY 10977
(Behind the Vizhnitzer Cemetery, at the end of the main road right,  first section on the left side, along the road)

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