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Rabbi Chaim (Henry) Pereira Mendez

lizensk12 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:34:38 +0000

Cofounder of the Orthodox Union – OU
d. 15 Cheshvan, 1937
Rav Mendes an early pioneer, upholding true Torah values in the United States was the Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Shearith Israel (The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue). The Rav, also served as the president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA). The UOJCA now goes by the name Orthodox Union or OU for short. The goal of the UOJCA was to establish a united voice for America Orthodox Jewry.
Beth Olam Cemetery
2 Cypress Hills Street,
Ridgewood (Queens), New York 11208
(Shearith Israel section, to the right of the Chapel Building, bottom of the hill on the main path to the left)

Rabbi Morris Jacob (Yaakov Moshe) 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.)

Rav Yosef Mayor Asher

lizensk12 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:15:32 +0000

Moreh Dasrah Congregation Orach Chaim, NYC
d. 25 Cheshvan, 1909
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
(Part of a larger stone)
(Section: Shearith Israel, Main entrance, on the left of the Chapel Building, along the path)

Rev Shmuel (Samuel) Myer Isaacs

lizensk12 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:52:33 +0000

Spiritual Leader Congregation Bnai Jeshurun
d.16 Iyar, 1878 (5638)
Rav Isaac’s primary teacher was Rav Solomon Hirschell (d. 1842), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. In 1839, with the encouragement of his Rebbe he accepted a position in New York as the spiritual leader (Moreh Dasrah, Chazan, preacher, est.) of Congregation Bnai Jeshurun. In 1859 the Rav tried organizing the first American national kehillah.
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
(Second entrance, up the hill, Bnai Jeshurun section, left side, last section before cul-de-sac, family plot)

Rev Yisroel Ber (Israel B.) Kursheedt

lizensk12 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:51:47 +0000

Talmid of Rav Nosson Adler, Rav of Frankfurt am Mein
d. 11 Iyar, 1852
Rev Yisroel Ber Kursheedt is the only known talmid (student) of Rav Nosson Adler the Rebbe of the Chasam Sofer to be buried in the United States. Rev Kursheedt was a contemporary of Rav Avroham Bing and Rav Wolf Heidenheim. It is reported that Rav Adler held these three talmidim in equal estimation and would often say Avroham is a charif, Wolf is a medackdek, and Yisroel is a chochem.
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
(Main entrance, to the left of the Chapel Building, up the hill)