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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.
Full bio to be posted.
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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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Chief Rabbi of Szeged, Hungary
d. 1 Teves, 1991
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
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.
Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
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)
Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
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)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
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 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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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)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
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.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
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.
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)
The Rav who was involved with Yeshivas Tiferes Jerusalem (MTJ) was a student in the famed Volozhiner Yeshiva.
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
(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.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
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)
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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Rav, New York City
d. 7 Nissan, 1940 (5700)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Old Montefiore Cemetery
121-83 Springfield Boulevard
St. Albans (Queens), NY 11412
(Location: Needed)

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Rav, Bronx, New York
d. (4) Adar II, 1976 (5737)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road
Elmont, NY 11003
(718) 343-4000
(Location: Needed)

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Founder of the Bais Hamedrash HaGadol of Norfolk Street
d. 25 Iyar, 1887
Rav Ash was from the first European style Rabbanim to organize and lead a congregation in New York City. Eventually his fame and authority spread across the country. No orthodox congregation in the United States would accept a shoichet (ritual slaughterer) without his certification.
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Rav, New York City
d. 27 Teves, 1960 (5720)
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
Location: Along Jefferson Avenue, right sidePhoto CreditL Asher Lowy, Brooklyn, New York

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Rav in New York City
d. 27 Kislev, 1912
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Directions to kever:
Mount Zion Cemetery
59-63 54th Avenue
(Off Maurice Avenue)
Maspeth, NY 11378
(Left Section)
Part of a larger stone.

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Rav, New York City
d. 11 Adar, 1947 (5707)
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)

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Rav, McKeesport, PA 
d. 17 Kislev, 1941
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Hebron Cemetery
130-04 Horace Harding Expressway
(Main Street Cemetery in Kew Gardens Hills)
Flushing, NY 11367
(Block: 6, Reference: 12, Section: I, Lot: 2, Grave: 10, Society: Cong Rohim Ahovim)

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