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Rav in Brooklyn, New York
d. 6 Iyar, 1930 (5690)
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Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path X, Row 71)

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Miadziol Illu
d. 5 Av, 1922 (5682)
Rav Gordon, the Chief Rabbi of Rochester accepted Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Josef’s invitation to serve on his Bais Din in New York City. The Rav was also a founding member of the Agudath HaRabonim.
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Son of the Chofetz Chaim
d. 30 Shevat, 1957 (5717)
In addition to Rav Kagen, his mother, the wife of the Chofetz Chaim and the wife of Rav Yeruchem Levovitz (d. 1936),the famed Mirer Mashgiach are both buried in the same section.
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Moreh Dasrah Chevra Beth Hillel Anshei Kreva
d. 11 Kislev, 1957 (5718)
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
(Section: 2, Block: 6, Washington Avenue on the right side)

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Rav in New York City
d. 2 Teves, 1936 (5696)
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 Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue Section V:1, along the Union Field Cemetery fence)

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Rosh Hayeshivah, Rabbinical Seminary of America (RSA)
d. 10 Nissan, 2008 (5768)
Rav Henoch Leibowitz, an only child, was born in 1918 in Salcininkai, Lithuania. The Rosh Yeshiva came to America in 1926 when his father Rav Dovid was hired by Mesivta Torah Vodath as a teacher. In 1933, Rav Dovid left Torah Vodath and founded Yeshivas [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Shavel, Lita (Lithuania)
d. 15 Sivan, 1957
Rav Levitan a prominent Moreh Dasrah in the Bronx was also the uncle of Rav Elazar Menachem Man Shach, the late Ponevezher Rosh Yeshiva.
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Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 5 Shevat, 1917
Rav Alperstein was a founding member of the Agudath HaRabonim. His commentary on Talmud Yerushalmi Masechet Bikkuri, was the first safer (book) on Talmud Yerushalmi to be published in the United States.
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Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Tifereth Yisroel, Lower East Side
d. 15 Elul, 1927 (5687)
Congregation Tifereth Yisroel eventual became the Bialystoker Shul.
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
(First mini ohel upon entering the cemetery on the left)

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Tifereth Yisroel
d. 2 Av, 1945 (5705)
In October 1943, Rav Lehrman participated in the historic March on Washington in which over 400 mostly Orthodox rabbis marched through the streets of Washington demanding that the Roosevelt administration help save the Jews of Europe.
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Rav Adas Bnei Yisroel Shomrei Shabbos of Brooklyn
d. 28 Elul, 1942 (5702)
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
(Section: 1, Block: U:7,  Bethel Avenue on the right side facing the road)

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Congregation Tzemach Tzedek Nusach Ari
d. 23 Kislev, 1939 (56999)
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
(Section: 2, Block: 9, Society: Zem Zed Nus Hoari, along the road on the right side)

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Founder of Talmid Torah Tiferes Jerusalem (MTJ)
d. 21 Elul, 1941 (5701)
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Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Corner of Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue)

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Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Vodath
d. 28 Av, 2001 (5761)
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 Two
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Corner of Emanuel and Washington Avenue)

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Shklover Illui
d. 13 Sivan, 1934 (5693)
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Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue, Section V:1, along the Union Field Cemetery fence)

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Menahel Vaad Harabonim of New York
d. 11 Nissan, 1975 (5735)
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 Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue)

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Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Anshei Vilna
d. 1 Teves, 1952 (5713)
Rav Schisgal’s son, Rav Eliyahu Moshe, (R.M. Mesivta Torah Vodath) was the son-in-law of the Goan Rav Moshe Feinstein.
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 Lebanon Road [...]

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Moreh Dasrah Bias Medrash HaGadol of the Bronx
d. 23 Elul, 1946 (5706)
In his Will, the Rav requested that one immerse in a mikvah (ritual path) prior to praying at his gravesite.
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
(Corner of Jefferson [...]

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Chevra Shas of Brownsville
d. 24 Av, 1964 (5724)
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
(Section: 2 Block: 5, Grave: 263, Path: L02, Society: Mish & Shom Shabbath, along Washington Avenue)

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Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 8 Tishrei, 1945
Anyone with information is asked to 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 Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue Section V:1, left side, apposite the Yampole Rebbe)

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Moreh Dasrah Ahavas Avroham
d. 6 Tishrei, 1924 (5685)
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Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section Two
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path 20, towards the front of the cemetery)

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Moreh Dasrah Bias Medrash HaGadol of the Bronx
d. 27 Nissan, 1955 (5715)
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
(Corner of Jefferson and Washington Avenue, Section 5:5, A few rows behind Rabbi Avroham Yitzchok Shuchatowitz)

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Schulchan Uhrech Anshe Kutno
d. 13 Adar I, 1984 (5744)
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
(Block: 9, Gate: 9, Left side along Main Road second gate after Emanuel Avenue)

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Rosh Hayeshivah, Rabbinical Seminary of America (RSA)
d. 15 Kislev, 1941
Reb Dovid Warshawer as he was known in Europe studied in Radin with his great-uncle, the Chofetz Chaim, Slobodka, and eventually the Slabodka Kolel.
In 1926, Rav Leibowitz came to the United States and joined Mesivta Torah Vodath, before opening his own yeshiva in 1933.
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Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 14 Nissan, 1960
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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R”M Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ)
d. 6 Nissan, 1961 (5721)
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 Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue, along the Union Field Cemetery fence)

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Baal Bikhurei Chaim
d. 12 Iyar, 1971 (5731)
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 Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue)

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Achei Yoseph
d. Tishrei 17 1968 (5729)
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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Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin
d. 8 Iyar, 1955 (5715)
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
(Corner of Emanuel and Washington Ave, a few rows behind Rav Pam)

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R.M. in Slutsk and Kletsk
d. 16 Teves, 1931 (5691)
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 Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue Section V:1)

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