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Chief Rabbi of Shavel, Lita (Lithuania)
d. 15 Sivan, 1957 (5717)
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, [...]

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Puhietze Rebbe
d. 11 Nissan, 1966
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Directions to kever:
Wellwood Cemetery
Wellwood Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735
(Agudath HaAdmorim Section on South Avenue, towards the back)

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Chief Rabbi of Odessa, Ukraine
d. 27 Tishrei, 1941
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Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003
(Section: H9, Corner of Joshua and Franklyn Avenue)

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Moreh Dasrah Chortkover Klaus of Brooklyn
d. 11 Av, 1935
Rav Regenbogen was the official emissary of Rebbe Yisroel Friedman the Chortkover Rebbe in New York. Prior to establishing the Chortkover Klaus (13th Avenue and 50th Street) in 1925, the Rav was the official lecturer at the Sadigerer Klaus on the Lower East Side.
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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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Moreh Dasrah Eldridge Street Synagogue
d. 5 Shevat, 1930
Rav Yudelovitch was among the most influential Rabbanim (Rabbis) living in the United States during the 1920’s.
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Directions to kever:
Bayside Cemetery
80-35 Pitkin Avenue
Ozone Park, NY 11417
212-874-7005
(Path V corner Path B, Enter at Path A, right on Path [...]

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Rav, New York City
d. 21 Kislev, 1954 (5715)
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Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section Two
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Corner of Jefferson and Washington Avenue, Section 5:5)

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Rav, New York City
d 24 Tammuz, 1994 (5754)
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Directions to kever:
Beth Moses Cemetery
Wellwood Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735

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Moreh Dasrah Kneseth Yisroel (White Shule), Far Rockaway, NY
d. 28 Tamuz, 1958
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Directions to kever:
Mount Hebron Cemetery
130-04 Horace Harding Expressway
(Main Street Cemetery in Kew Gardens Hills)
Flushing, NY 11367
(Block: 65, Reference: 1, Section: A/B, Society: Mirer Young Men)

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Rav, New York City
d. 6 Cheshvan, 1937 (7698)
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Directions to kever:
Mount Lebanon Cemetery
7800 Myrtle Avenue
Glendale, NY 11385
Location: Block: M, Section: 11, Line: 2, Grave: 6, Society: City of Wishna
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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.
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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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Rav, Beth Israel Hospital Synagogue
d. 1912
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Directions to kever:
Washington Cemetery
5400 Bay Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11230
Location: Needed

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Chief Rabbi of Szeged, Hungary
d. 1 Teves, 1991
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Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003
(Congregation Beth Medrash HaGadol of East New York section)

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Rav in New York
d. 22 Tishrei, 1994(5755) Shemini Atzeres
Rav Yaakov Kantrowitz, the chief rabbi of Trenton, NJ was the Rav’s father.
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Directions to kever:
Wellwood Cemetery
Wellwood Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735
(Corner of North and Zangwill Avenue, Block: 54, Section: Tiferes Jerusalem)

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Rav, Brownsville, Brooklyn
d. 12 Elul, 1924 (5684)
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Directions to kever:
Mount Lebanon Cemetery
7800 Myrtle Avenue
Glendale, NY 11385
Location: Block: F, Section: 6, along the main path near Herzel Avenue

Photo Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY

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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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Chief Rabbi, Hunyad, Romania
d. 3 Iyar, 1994 (5754)
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Directions to kever:
Beth Moses Cemetery
Wellwood Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735
(Alongside the Krasner ohel)

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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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Rav in Rochester, NY
d. 18 Iyar, 1942 (5702) Lag BaOmer
The Rav, who wrote many seforim came to the United State in 1924. Prior to Rochester he served in Quincy and Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Directions to kever:
Britton Road Cemetery
188 Britton Road
Rochester, NY 14616-3324
(585) 663-6937

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Rav Adas Bnei Yisroel Shomrei Shabbos of Brooklyn
d. 28 Elul, 1942 (5702)
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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)
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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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Moreh Dasrah Chasam Sopher Shul (Clinton Street)
d. 27 Av, 2006
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Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003
(Bethel Avenue between Lincoln and Washington Avenue, left side, towards the back of the section)

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Rav, New York City
d. 19 Kislev, 1943 (7504)
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Directions to kever:
Mount Lebanon Cemetery
7800 Myrtle Avenue
Glendale, NY 11385
(Location: Block: A, Section: 1, Line: 12, Grave: 25, Society: Sokola)

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Moreh Dasrah, Bais Medrash HaGadol of Brownsville
d. 10 Elul, 1958 (5718)
Rav Koplowitz worked endlessly to help improve the standards of kashrus (ritual slaughter) in the United States.
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Directions to kever:
Mount Carmel Cemetery Section One
83-45 Cypress Hills Street
Glendale NY 11385
(Bais Medrash HaGadol of [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Vodath
d. 28 Av, 2001 (5761)
Full bio to be posted.
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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)
The Rav who was involved with Yeshivas Tiferes Jerusalem (MTJ) was a student in the famed Volozhiner Yeshiva.
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Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Location: Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue, Section V:1, along [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia
d. 29 Kislev, 1978
The Rav was appointed to the Yugoslavian Senate by King Alexander of Yugoslavia.
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Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003

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Menahel Vaad Harabonim of New York
d. 11 Nissan, 1975 (5735)
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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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