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Chief Rabbi of Pittsburgh, PA
d. 28 Addar II, 1954 (5714)
Rav Ashinski served as Rav in Syracuse, NY, Utica, NY, Detroit, MI, and Montreal, Canada before settling in Pittsburgh. In 1922 he moved to Brooklyn, NY where he was appointed Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Beth Shalom (South Fifth Street and Marcy Avenue). Over 5,000 people attended [...]

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Rav in New York City
c. 1898
Rav Benjaminson lived in New York City and was the author of Emek Yehoshpat, Hamisbonain, and Milhamah be-Shalom which includes approbations from Chief Rabbi Yaakov Joseph and Rav Hillel Klein.
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Chief Rabbi of Portland, Maine
d. 2 Sivan, 1927
The Rav authored Nachal Avroham which includes a collection of droshos (lectures) he deliverer in Portland. In 1898 the Rav moved to Boston, MA where he remained until in passing.
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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Beth Abraham, Bronx, NY
d. 30 Shevat, 1936 (5696)
The Rav a prominent member of the Agudas Harabonim, president of the Board of Orthodox Rabbis of New York, and a delegate to the American Jewish Congress wrote many seforim among them Chazyonos Avroham. Born in Zakroczym, Poland and ordained by Rav Yonah Zlotnick of [...]

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Moreh Dasrah Shaare Torah Anshe Maariv, Chicago, IL
d. 1945
The Rav was a member of the Agudath Harabonim and Vaad Harabonim of Chicago.
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Directions to kever:
Waldheim Cemetery Company
1400 Des Plaines Avenue
Forest Park, Illinois 60130
(800) 222-4541
(Gate: 9, Lot: 19, Section: 2, Row: 19, Grave: 3)

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Chief Rabbi of Cleveland, OH
d. 1932
Rav Gittelson was born in Lithuania (1851-1853), son of Rav Yehuda Leib a descendant of Rav Yeshaya Halevi Horowitz, Shelah Hakadosh. The Rav’s father passed away when he was eight. Impoverished, he wandered from town to town for charitable donations enabling him to receive a traditional yeshiva education. Rav Gittelson attended [...]

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Bikur Cholim
d. 13 Sivan, 1984 (5744)
The Rav was also among the over 400 Rabbanim and Admorim who on Erev Yom Kippur, 1943 marched on Washington, DC demanding that the Roosevelt administration help save the Jews of Europe.
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Chief Rabbi of Worcester, MA
d. 17 Kislev, 1938
Rav Silver was a founding member of the Agudath Harabonim.
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Directions to kever:
Worcester Hebrew Cemetery
Lamper Hill Road
Auburn, MA 01501
(Off Stafford Street, take Cemetery Road past Havana Road)

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Rav in Pittsburgh, PA
d.
Rav Kaminetsky delivered a moving eulogy for Rav Shmuel Salant in Pittsburgh on 5 Elul, 1909, a few days after his passing.
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R”M Telshe, Cleveland, Ohio
d. 29, Kislev, 2006
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Directions to kever:
Mount Olive Cemetery
27855 Aurora Rd
Solon, OH 44139
(440) 248-5100
(Near the ohel of Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch)

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Mashgiach of Yeshivas Ner Israel, Baltimore, MD
d. 1973
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Directions to kever:
Shomrei Mishmeres Cemetery
Address needed
Baltimore, MD
Unconfirmed

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Congregation Bnai Abraham, Philadelphia
d. 1 Adar I, 1891
Rav Kleinberg was born in the town of Bavisk, Lithuania and was the son-in-law of Rav Yisrael Lipchitz, the Chief Judge of the Vilna Bias Din. Soon after his father-in-laws passing the Rav was appointed as his replacement. He was then known as Rav Eliezer Dayan.
In 1890 Chief [...]

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Knesses Yisrael, Chicago
d. ???????
The Rav was born in 1876 and was the brother of the famous Chevron Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Moshe Mordechai. The Rav was ordained by Rav Yaakov Dovid Willowsky (RYDV”Z) of Slutsk and later Boston , Rav Yechiel Michel Epstein the Baal Aruch ha-Shulchan, Rav Yitzchak Yaakov Reines of Lida [...]

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Rav in New York
d. 6 Iyar, 1927 (5687)
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Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Bnei Yaakov, Cleveland
d. 10 Nissan, 1946 (5706)
The Rav, an executive member of the Agudath Harabonim published his Bechi Tamrumim in 1929. Bechi Tamrumim is a collection of eulogies.
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Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003
(718) 343-4000

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Nachlas Tzvi of Harlem
d. 1951
Rav Kaplan a prominent member of the Agudath Harabonim was also the Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Bnai Yehuda, Brooklyn on 16th Avenue (53rd Street) in Boropark. The Rav was also among the over 400 Rabbanim and Admorim who on Erev Yom Kippur, 1943 marched on Washington demanding that [...]

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Rav in Lodi, NJ
d. 22 Elul, 1920 (5680)
The Rav was buried in Lodi, NJ
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Directions to kever:
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East Broadway Maggid
d. 24 Av, 1875
Rav Aaronsohn was born in 1805 and served as a maggid (preacher) in several Eastern European towns among them Mir before arriving in New York in 1860. In 1864 he was appointed rabbi of Congregation Adath Jeshurun in New York City. He eventually settled in Chicago where he passed away. [...]

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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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Rav, Congregations Bnai Yaakov, Passaic, NJ
d. 15 Tammuz, 1920 (5680)
The Rav was buried in Lodi, NJ
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Directions to kever:
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Chief Rabbi of Des Moines, Iowa
d.
Rav Zeichik was a member of the Agudas Harabonim during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Mashgiach - Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary, New Haven, CT
d.
Full bio to be posted.
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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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Rav in New Jersey
d. 27 Tishrei, 1939 (5700)
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Photo Credit: David Weider of Williamsburg.

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Moreh Dasrah Adas Ohavay Shalom, Chicago, IL
d. 1894
The Rav passed away in Chicago.
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Moreh Dasrah Talmud Torah Rabbi Yisroel Salanter
d. 1938 (5698)
The Rav a prolific writer was born in Krichev and came to the United States in 1906.
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Directions to kever:
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Rav, Congregation Shaarey Tefiloh, Perth Amboy, NJ
d. ?????????
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Directions to kever:
Congregation Shaarey Tefiloh Cemetery
Florida Grove Road
Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
856-222-1418

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Rosh Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Baltimore, MD
d. 6 Tamuz, 1999
Full bio to be posted.
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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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Rav, Bais Hamedrash HaGadol, Newark, NJ
d. 15 Nissan, 1918 (5678) Pesach
The Rav was buried in Lodi, NJ
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Rav in Boston, Massachusetts
d. 24 Tishrei, 1937
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The Rav is buried somewhere in Woburn or Boston MA,

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Baal Safer Tzohar (Light)
d.
Rav Robinson lived in Springfield, MA.
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Directions to kever:
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