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Rosh Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Baltimore, MD
d. 17 Tammuz, 1999 (5759) Shiv’ah Asar b’Tammuz
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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 [...]

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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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Baal Safer Tzohar (Light)
d.
Rav Robinson lived in Springfield, MA.
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Moreh Dasrah Chevra Bikur Cholim, Galveston, Texas
d. c. 1930
Rav Geller came to Texas from Galicia around 1892 at the behest of Rebbe Yisroel Friedman, Chortkover Rebbe. The Rav latter relocated to Houston where he led Congregation Adath Yisroel for close to 20 years.
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Rosh Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Baltimore, MD
d. 14 Tammuz, 1987 (5747)
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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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 Toras Chaim, Denver, CO
d.
After 30 years in Denver, Rav Gutman moved to Lakewood where he served as Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Lev Avroham.
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Directions to kever:
Floral Park Cemetery (office side)
104 Deans Rhode Hall Road
Monmouth Junction (Deans), NJ 08852
Location:  Aguda Section

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Rav, Boston, Massachusetts
d. 19 Teves, 1931 (5691)
The Rav was born in Shpeishuk, a small village near Kovno, Lithuania where his father Rav Chaim Zev server as Rav. At the young age of 8, the Rav was sent to the yeshiva in Eishishok to study. After his bar mitzvah he traveled to Jerusalem where he entered the study [...]

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Rav in Wilmington, Delaware
d. ????
The Rav wrote two seforim (books) Hashabbos vaHaaretz and Yesodei haMiddos, both were printed in New York.
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Chief Rabbi of Chattanooga, TN
d. 7 Shevat, 1948 (5708)
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Directions to kever:
B’Nai Zion Cemetery
605 Lullwater Road
Chattanooga, TN 37405
(423) 894-8900

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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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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Brothers of Joseph
d. 13 Kislev, 1950
The Rav served as Chief Rabbi of Syracuse, NY prior to his 42 years of service for the Jewish community of Norwich, CT.
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Brothers of Joseph Cemetery
Lafayette Street
Preston (Norwich), CT 06360
(860) 887-3777
(The [...]

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Rav, Passaic NJ
d. ????
The Rav, who was from Svislotz, Belarus should not be confused with the famed Rogochover Goan carrying the same name.
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The American Maggid (Preacher)
d. 1864
Rav Falk came to the United States in 1858 and for a short time served as Rav of Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, New York. He also delivered lectures regularly at Congregation Shaaray Torah in New York City. The Rav’s safer, Avnei Yehoshua, was the first book on Pirkei Avos printed in North America.
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Ziditchover Rebbe of Chicago
d. 22 Tammuz, ???? (????)
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Photo Credit: JM

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Hornisteiple Milwaukee Rebbe
10 Av, 1973 (5730)
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Directions to kever:
Beth Hamedrash HaGadol Cemetery
134 S. Dana Court
Milwaukee, WI 53214
(414) 871-8760
Location: Ohel

Photo Credit: Yitzchak Fox, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia
d. 8 Shevat, 1868
Rev Leeser founded The Occident, the first general American Jewish magazine. The Occident is one of the most important records of American Jewish life in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Rev Lesser was the first Rabbinic authority in the United Stated to introduce a weekly sermon as [...]

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Rav, First Jewish Congregation Beth Israel
d. 29 Av, 1866 (5626)
The Rav was born in Posen and studied at the Yeshiva in Munster, Germany. He was ordained by the great Rabbonim of Posen and Rav Nosson Marcus Adler (d. 1890), Chief-Rabbi of Great Britton. Soon after arriving in New York the Rav was appointed as Moreh [...]

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