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Photo Caption: Rav Abba Chaim Levinsohn, Credit: B’nai Israel, The Downtown Synagogue

Congregation Shearith Israel of Baltimore d. 8 Tishrei, 1933 Rav Schaffer studied in the Berlin Rabbiner Seminar (Rabbinical Seminary), headed by the famous Rav Azriel Hildesheimer. The Rav was ordained by Rav Hildesheimer, Rav Avroham Diamant of Yurburg, Rav Zev Lehrman of Erzvilok, the Kovno Rov, Rav Yitzchok Elchonon Spector and Rav Alexander Moshe Lapidus […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Museum of Maryland 

Photo Credit: From the Virtual Judaica reference collection library 

Rav Rice was the fist known ordained Rav to serve as Moreh Dasrah of a congregation in this country. Rav Rice was a talmid (student) of Rav Avroham Bing the Chief Rabbi of Wurzburg and subsequently of Rav Wolf Hamburger of Fuerth. As the first ordained Rav in the United States, Rav Rice decided the halachic Hebrew spelling for many of the cities across the country.

Photo Caption: Rav Dovid Kornglass,  Mashgiach, Yeshivas Ner Israel Baltimore, Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: Rabbi Hillel and Yehudis Mihaly, Credit: Reb Asher Michaeli, Brooklyn, NY  

Photo Caption: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taragin, Credit: Jewish Museum of Maryland 

Rav, Ohel Yaakov Congregation of Baltimore d. 25 Adar I, 1940 (5700) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Ohel Yaakov Congregation Cemetery 6700 Bowelys Lane Rosedale, MD 21237 Location: Needed Click photo to enlarge, a new window will open, click that one as well. […]

Photo Caption: Rav Reuvain Rivkin, passport picture, c.1905, Credit: Bruce Rivkin

Photo Caption: Rabbi Reuvain Rivkin c.1930, Credit: Bruce Rivkin

Photo Caption: Rabbi Reuvain Rivkin, c.1930, Credit: Bruce Rivkin

The Rav Kramer  married the daughter of great philanthropist Reb Shraga Frank of Kovno, Lithuania. Reb Shraga had four famous son-in-lawas, the other three were Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein of Slobodka and later Chevron, Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer of Slutsk, Rav Baruch Hurwitz of Alexot, Lithuania and later Rosh Yeshivah in Slobodka. The Rav’s daughter married Rav Yaakov Yitzchok Halevi Ruderman, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Yisroel, Baltimore.

Photo Caption: Rav Yaakov Weinberger, c. 1965 at Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Toronto, Credit: Courtesy of the Ottawa Jewish Archives

Photo Caption: Rav Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg, Credit: BALTIMORE JEWISH LIFE

Photo Caption: Rav Shimshon Pinkus, Chief Rabbi, Ofaqim, Israel d. 2001, nephew of Rav Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg, Credit: Needed

Rav, Baltimore, MD d. 20 Kislev, 1887 (5648) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: B’nai Israel Cemetery 3701 Southern Avenue Baltimore, MD 21214 410-736-9245 (Ask for Neil Noble) Location: Needed Click photo to enlarge, a new window will open, click that one as […]

Photo Caption: Rav Yaakov Moshe Kulefsky, Rosh Yeshiva, Ner Yisroel  Baltimore, Credit: Ari Koretzky

Rav, Ohel Yakov Congregation, Baltimore, MD d. 15 Cheshvan, 1919 (5680) Chanukah Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Ohel Yakov Congregation Cemetery 6700 Bowleys Lane Rosedale, MD 21237 Location: Needed Click photo to enlarge, a new window will open, click that one as […]

Rav, Beth Medrash Hagadol of Baltimore d. 21 Av, 1931 (5691) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Congregation Cemetery 6300 Hamilton Avenue Rosedale, MD 21237 Note: Enter from the Philadelphia Road entrance. Location: Needed Click photo to enlarge, a new […]

Rav Schecter was closely involved with the Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Baltimor since the 1940’s and served as a Rabbi in Norfolk, VA and New Orleans, LA.