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Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Willner

lizensk12 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:57:30 +0000

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

Rabbi Alter Chanoch Henoch Leibowitz

lizensk12 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:50:06 +0000

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 Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen. His father’s death in 1941 left him in charge of the fledgling yeshiva while still in his early 20s. Rav Henoch would spend the rest of his life leading the yeshiva as an International Orthodox Jewish icon. Sadly, the Rosh Yeshiva left no children.
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, facing the road)

Rabbi Avroham Eliezer Alperstein

lizensk12 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:20:54 +0000

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.
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
(Right on Machpela Avenue, ohel at the top of the hill on the right)

Rabbi Avroham Yaakov Pam

lizensk12 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:04:04 +0000

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)

Rabbi Baruch Hanapolsky

lizensk12 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:10:40 +0000

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

Rabbi Binyamin Aronowitz

lizensk12 — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:45:07 +0000

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)

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Leibowitz

lizensk12 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:22:51 +0000

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.
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, behind the kever of the Yampoler Rebbe)

Rabbi Chaim Heller

lizensk12 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:15:07 +0000

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)

Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl

lizensk12 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:27:51 +0000

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 Jews of Slovakia from extermination at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Largely by bribing diplomats, the Rav was able to smuggle letters or telegrams to people he hoped would help save the Jews of Europe, alerting them to the progressive Nazi destruction of European Jewry. It is known that he managed to send letters to Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Pope Pius XII. He also unsuccessfully begged the Allies to bomb the rails leading to Auschwitz.
The Rav arrived in the United States a broken man having lost his wife, five children, and community. Although the Rav remarried and had five children, he never forgot his family and community in Europe and was unable to overcome his grief.
In November 1946, the Rav and his brother-in-law, Rav Sholom Moshe Unger, re-established the Nitra Yeshiva in Somerville, NJ, gathering surviving students from the original Nitra Yeshiva. A year later, with the help of Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, a large estate in Mount Kisco, NY was purchased and the Yeshiva relocated. On its new campus a self-sustaining agricultural community known as the “Yeshiva Farm Settlement” was established.
Beth Israel Cemetery
US Highway 1
Woodbridge, NJ 07095

Rabbi Chaim Shunfenthal

lizensk12 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:29:10 +0000

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

Rabbi Chaim Yechezkel Moseson

lizensk12 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:22:51 +0000

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)

Rabbi Dov Revel

lizensk12 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:33:42 +0000

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)

Rabbi Dovid Barkin

lizensk12 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:55:02 +0000

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

Rabbi Dovid Kronglas

lizensk12 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:24:03 +0000

Mashgiach of Yeshivas Ner Israel, Baltimore, MD
d. 1973
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Shomrei Mishmeres Cemetery
Address needed
Baltimore, MD
Unconfirmed

Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch

lizensk12 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:04:00 +0000

Rosh Yeshiva Telshe, Cleveland, Ohio
d. 28 Teves, 1955
Full bio to be posted.
Mount Olive Cemetery
27855 Aurora Rd
Solon, OH 44139
(440) 248-5100
(Ohel)

Rabbi Ephraim Mordechai Steinberg

lizensk12 — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:12:32 +0000

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 Yosef Rosen of Passaic, New Jersey.
He arrived in the United States in 1921 and was immediately appointed a rosh yeshiva at RIETS where he taught Torah to hundreds of students until his passing.
He authored two seforim: Degel Machane Ephraim volume one and Degel Machane Ephraim volume two in 1970. The second volume was lost in the mail before it was published. The author rewrote the entire safer from memory and it was posthumously published.
(Source: And your eyes shall see your Teacher, Rabbi Zevulun Charlop)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Riverside Cemetery
12 Market Street
Saddle Brook, NJ 07663-0930
(201) 843-7618
(Location: Needed)

Rabbi Gershon Avroham Weisenfeld

lizensk12 — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:52:03 +0000

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)

Rabbi Hillel Bisko (Bischko)

lizensk12 — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:58:36 +0000

Rosh Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim, Lithuania
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 that the Rav is still buried at the Beth Israel Cemetery, both according to the Cemetery Management and the legendary Rabbi Pinchos Mandel thus a tombstone was never erected. At the time of his passing the Rav had two children one Adi living in Munich, Germany and another son stuck behind the Iron Curtain with whom contact was lost. It is also a strong possibility that the Rav had a daughter. Another point of note is that at the time of burial the Rav’s coffin was placed in a metal transport container. It was suggested by prominent Torah authorities that at this point it should be left that way. In the coming weeks the Beth Israel Cemetery Management will be testing the grave to assure that the Rav is still indeed buried at Beth Israel.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Beth Israel Cemetery
US Highway 1
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
(732) 634-2100
(Section: Chevra Sefard Anshai Poland)

Rabbi Hillel Weiss

lizensk12 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:06:36 +0000

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, along the road)

Rabbi Levi Yosef Breuer

lizensk12 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:29:24 +0000

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 Dasrah of the Austrittsgemeinde (secession community) of Orthodox Jews in Frankfurt am Main, known as Khal Adath Jeshurun.
Rav Yosef attended the local yeshiva, Torah Lehranstalt, which his father founded. Upon his fathers passing, in 1926, Rav Yosef was installed as the Rosh Yeshiva of the communal school system.
The Rav immigrated to the United States in 1939 after being arrested by the Gestapo. Once in New York, the Rav took the initiative to start a congregation with the numerous German refugees in Washington Heights, which would closely follow the morale and customs of the Frankfurt community. In addition, he founded Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, a yeshiva elementary school and high school named after his illustrious grandfather. He also founded a teachers’ seminary for girls that would be renamed the Rika Breuer Teachers’ Seminary after his wife’s passing.
Towards the end of his life, the name Levi was added to his own name as a blessing to recover from an illness.
Among the Rav’s philosophical views was the concept of Torah im Derech Eretz which was first introduced in Germany by Rav Hirsch.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
King Solomon Memorial Park
Dwasline Avenue (& Allwood Road)
Clifton, NJ 07014

Rabbi Meir Zanvil Pam

lizensk12 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:36:06 +0000

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)

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Perr

lizensk12 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:37:49 +0000

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.
Anyone with 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

Rabbi Mordechai Menachem Schwab

lizensk12 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:09:23 +0000

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)

Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall

lizensk12 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:56:28 +0000

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 the University of Erlangen (Germany). Soon after, he began publishing the Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature.
In 1840, when the blood accusation was made at Damascus, he published a refutation of it in four languages (Hebrew, English, French, and German) and wrote a defense of Judaism against an anonymous writer in the London Times. The Rav also published a translation of eighteen treatises of the Mishnah; he also began a translation of the Pentateuch, of which only one volume appeared; and a text-book of the post-Biblical history of the Jews (to the year 70 C.E.).
In 1841 he was appointed Moreh Dasrah (minister) of the Birmingham Synagogue (West Midlands), United Kingdom, and the Rosh Yeshiva (head master) of the school. He continued in these capacities for eight years, and then sailed for New York where he was appointed rabbi and preacher of Congregation B’nei Jeshurun. He passed away in New York on June 23, 1868.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Beth Olam Cemetery
2 Cypress Hills Street
Ridgewood (Queens), New York 11208
(Section: 11, Lot: 8, Grave: G)
(Second entrance, after cul-de-sac, enter path between section 21 and 22 (Dessau and Russak), proceed until Sommers tombstone and go left down path (same path as the Mitchell mausoleum) third grave in.)

Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Shkop

lizensk12 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:11:23 +0000

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)

Rabbi Moshe Sobel (Sobol)

lizensk12 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:04:11 +0000

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 asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path X, Row 71)

Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik

lizensk12 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:33:29 +0000

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)

Rabbi Moshe Zevulun Margolies

lizensk12 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:41:50 +0000

RAMAZ
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)

Rabbi Nesanel Quinn

lizensk12 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:25:27 +0000

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)

Rabbi Nosson Eliyahu Gertzulin

lizensk12 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:30:51 +0000

Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Vodath
d. 22 Sivan, 2005
Anyone with 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