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Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Vodath
d. 22 Sivan, 2005
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Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003

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Satmar Rav of London
d. 21 Tammuz, 2006
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Directions to kever:
Kiryas Yoel Cemetery
Schunnemunk Road
(Between Berdichev Drive and Seven Springs Road )
Kiryas Joel ( Monroe ), NY 10951
(Near the ohel)

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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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Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Vodath
d. 17 Kislev, 1944 (5705)
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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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Rosh Yeshiva of Bais Yitzchok (Kamenetz)
d. 22 Adar, 1958 (5718)
Rav Grozovsky, the son-in-law of Rav Baruch Ber Lebovits was also the Rosh Yeshiva of Mesivta Torah Vodath in Brooklyn and Beth Medrash Elyon in Monsey, NY.
Full bio to be posted.
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Moreh Dasrah Bais Medrash HaGadol of Norfolk Street
d. 7 Kislev, 1923 (5684)
Rav Shalom Elchonon Yaffe was born in the town of Vabolnick, Lithuania just outside of Vilna in 1858. His primary teacher was his father a noted torah scholar and a descendant of Rav Mordechai Yaffe the Baal Halevushim (d. Posen, Poland, 1612). At the [...]

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Nitra Rav
27 Nissan, 2003
Yeshiva Farm Settlement Cemetery
Mt. Kisco NY 10549
914-666-8402
(Exact address needed)

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Rosh Yeshiva Beis HaTalmud
d. 7 Sivan, 2008 (5768)
Rav Brus was born in Savin, Poland, his father was a Trisker chossid. He entered Pinsker Yeshiva at the age of 11 and soon after the Kaminetzer Yeshiva where he was among the youngest students of Rav Baruch Ber Lebowitz (1864-1939).
Exiled to Siberia during the Holocaust, he miraculously [...]

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Mashgiach – Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary, New Haven, CT
d.
Full bio to be posted.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
United Hebrew Cemetery
3901 Washington Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21227-4146
(410) 242-1444
(To the left of the main building, about half way up the hill, surrounded by a fence.)

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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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Maitcheteter (Maichater) Illui
d. 21 Tamuz, 1928 (5688)
Rav Baruch Ber Lebowitz, Kaminetzer Rosh Hayeshivah who at the time was visiting the United States was maspid (eulogized) Rav Polachek.
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
(Corner of [...]

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Ahavath Tzion
d. 9 Cheshvan, 1938
In addition to writing many seforim, Rav Fine was the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Beth Yehuda which during the 1930’s had an enrolment of more that 30 students.
Machpelah Cemetery Association
21701 Woodward Avenue
Ferndale (Detroit), MI 48220
(Section: 5, Row: 15, Lot: 5 on the right side of the path near [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Baltimore, MD
d. 17 Tammuz, 1999 (5759) Shiv’ah Asar b’Tammuz
Full bio to be posted.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
United Hebrew Cemetery
3901 Washington Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21227-4146
(410) 242-1444
(To the left of the main building, about half way up the hill, surrounded by a [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Veitzen, Hungary
d. 25 Teves, 1974
Prior to becoming Chief Rabbi of Veitzen in 1930, the Rav led the Jewish community of Neimark, Galicia. In Neimark, the Rav headed a yeshiva with hundreds of students. In 1944, the Rebbe along with his entire community was deported to Auschwitz. After his liberation he was appointed [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 22 Kislev, 1937 (5697)
Rav Silman who hailed from Uzda, Russia was a leading figure at the Agudas HaRabonim. The Rav was also associated with the Beis Medrash L’Rabonim in Chicago and Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ) in New York City.
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Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Vodath
d. 29 Adar I, 1986 (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
(Judah Road last section before Sinai Avenue on the left side, Section T:5)

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Rav, Vernon Avenue Shule, Brooklyn, NY
d. 17 Cheshvan, 1934 (5695)
Rav Sokol a student of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk received rabbinical ordination from him. Prior to his moving to New York the Rav stopped in LA where he headed a yeshiva.
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Directions to kever:
Beth [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Baltimore, MD
d. 3 Kislev, 2000 (5761)
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
Location: Across from the Aguda section.
Photo Credit: S. Schecter, Baltimore, MD

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Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin
d. 1 Av, 1963 (5723) Rosh Chodesh
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Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003
Location: Jericho Avenue, between Jackson and Monroe

Reb Irving Bunim, the noted askan (community advocate) is buried directly across the road from Rav Shurkin.

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R”M, Yeshiva Rabbeinu Shlomo Kluger
d. 20 Sivan, 1965 (5725)
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Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003
(718) 343-4000
(Location: Needed)

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Rosh Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Baltimore, MD
d. 14 Tammuz, 1987 (5747)
Full bio to be posted.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
United Hebrew Cemetery
3901 Washington Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21227-4146
(410) 242-1444
(To the left of the main building, about half way up the hill, surrounded by a fence.)

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Bnai Dovid
d. 9 Elul, 1935 (5695)
Rav Aishiskin, a Moreh Dasrah and Rosh Yeshiva in Detroit for over thirty years wrote two seforim Dvar Yechezkel and Mareh Yechezkel. The Rav passed away in Detroit after a prolonged illness that left him paralyzed for the last six months of his life.
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R”M, Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 25 Cheshvan, 1917 (5678)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Location: Path 69, look for Jacob Shapiro)

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Rosh Yeshiva, Talmud Torah Ohab Zedek
d. 21 Nissan, 1922 (5682) Shevii Shel Pesach
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Directions to kever:
United Hebrew Cemetery
122 Arthur Kill Road
Staten Island, NY 10306
(718) 351-0230
(Society: Smotricher)

Photo Credit: David Weider of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Rosh Yeshiva Zichron Mayer, Mountaindale, NY
d. 23 Adar I, 1997 (5757)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Vizhnitzer Cemetery in Monsey, NY
RT. 306 (at the intersection of Brick Church Rd)
Spring Valley, NY 10977
(Left side of the cemetery behind Vizhnitzer ohel)

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Rosh Yeshiva – Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary, New Haven, CT
d. 13 Shevat, 1938
Rav Levenberg first position in the United States was the Chief Rabbi of Jersey City.
Full bio to be posted.
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Directions to kever:
Congregation Beth Israel, Vilner Lodge Cemetery
Jewell Street
New Haven, CT 06515
(Along [...]

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R”M, Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary, New Haven, CT
d. 4 Tammuz, 1928 (5688)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Congregation Beth Israel, Vilner Lodge Cemetery
Jewell Street
New Haven, CT 06515
(Along the main path)

Photo Credit: Werner Hirsch, New Haven, CT

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Shearith Yisroel
d. 3 Tammuz, 1871 (5631)
Rav Illowi was ordained by Rav Moshe Schreiber, the Chasam Sofer and was among the first Rabbanim to serve in the United States. From the time of his arrival on these shores in 1853 until his passing, the Rav spent his time fighting to influence and uphold [...]

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Kiviashder Rav of Forest Hills, Queens
d. 1 Adar, 2004
The Rav was born (1913) in Kashau, Czechoslovakia, his father Rav Meir was the Zhidichover Rav of Kashau. As a child, he studied under Rav Shaul Brach, the Kashauer Rav. After his marriage, he replaced his father-in-law (who had moved away) as Kiviashder Rav and established a [...]

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Yeshivas Rabbeinu Mordechai Rosenblatt
d. 8 Av, 1938 (5698)
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
(At the entrance of the cemetery, third section to the right)

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