kevarim.com

Rav, Brooklyn, NY
d. 6 Iyar, 1930 (5690)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path X, Row 71)

[Read more →]

Rav, New York City
d.
The tombstone is cracked and is in great need of repair. According to the Society Plot Map the Rav’s name is listed as Aaron Myers. In addition the plot alongside his, remains empty.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress [...]

[Read more →]

Rav, New York City
d. 4 Cheshvan, 1907 (5706)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
718-366-3784
Location: Path: GP
Click photo to enlarge, a new window will open, click that one as well

Photo Credit: Sam Amsel. Brooklyn, New York

[Read more →]

Moreh Dasrah, Beth Medrash HaGadol Anshe Ungaran
d. 19 Nissan, 1936 (5696) Chol Hamoed Pesach
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
Location: Section 17 (on the hill)

[Read more →]

Rav, New York City
d. 5 Teves, 1903 (5664)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Location: Needed, Cemetery Directory: Louis Meisler)

[Read more →]

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.
Anyone [...]

[Read more →]

Rav, New York City
d. 24 Elul, (1913) 5673
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
T: 718-366-3784
Location: Path: Q – 68
Click photo to enlarge, a new window will open, click that one as well

Photo Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY

[Read more →]

Moreh Dasrah Congregation Etz Chaim of Brooklyn
d. 25 Tamuz, 1949
Rav Finkelstein was the first Menahel of Mesivta Torah Vodath.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path: X, Row: 71)

[Read more →]

Rav, New York City
d. 2 Tishrei, 1924 (5685) Rosh Hashanah
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
718-366-3784
Location: Path: Q – 68
Click photo to enlarge, a new window will open, click that one as well

Photo Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY

[Read more →]

Rav in Brooklyn, NY
d. 22 Nissan, 1921
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path X, Row 71)

[Read more →]

Moreh Dasrah Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
d. 2 Adar, 1929
In 1885 Rav Peikes, a member of the Agudath Harabonim was appointed the Congregations first Moreh Dasrah (Rabbi).
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Cedar Avenue, Path M on the right side, flat [...]

[Read more →]

Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 6 Sivan, 1920
Rav Sobel was also the Moreh Dasrah of Mesivta Tiferes Jerusalem prior to the arrival of Rav Moshe Feinstein in the late 1930’s. The Rav had a brother in New York, Rav Shmuel Dovid who authored Migdal Dovid on Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs).
Anyone with information is [...]

[Read more →]

Moreh D’Asrah Bais Medrash HaGadol Anshei Ungarin (Hungary)
d. 7 Sivan, 1940
Rav Moshe Weinberger was among the first Hungarian Rabbanim to arrive in the United States. After several troubled attempts at the Rabbonis the Rav founded the Pitt Street Matzah Bakery which he ran for many years. The Pitt Street Matzah Bakery was the forerunner of [...]

[Read more →]

Moreh Dasrah Congregation Mogen Avroham Anshe Dukler
d. 16 Adar, 1911 (5671)
Rav Reiter was the only member of Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Joseph’s Bais Din (Rabbinical Court) of chassidish descent.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Off Central Avenue)

[Read more →]

Grandson of Rav Aryeh Leib Gunzberg (Ginsburg) the Shagas Aryeh
d. 15 Teves, 1885
Rav Netkin was the son in law of Rav Yosef Zundel Salant. He was sent by his brother in law Rav Shmuel Slant to the United States to collect money for the impoverished Jews of the Old Yishuv.
Anyone with information is asked to [...]

[Read more →]

Rav in New York City
d. 26 Tammuz, 1927
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path X, Gate: 23)

[Read more →]

More Dasrah Shiniver Klaus on the East Side
d. 16 Adar II, 1935
The Rav, a chossid of Rebbe Moshe Halberstam of Shiniv was born in the town of Belz. He married the daughter of Rebbe Yosef Chaim Glantz, the brother in law of the Sar Shalom of Belz. In 1910 he moved to New York.
Anyone with [...]

[Read more →]

Baal Migdal Dovid on Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs)
d. 13 Iyar, 1908
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path X, Row 71)

[Read more →]

Nassi, Shevet Yehuda Institute
d. 18 Tammuz, 1980
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Old Montefiore Cemetery
Lubavitcher Section
226-20 Francis Lewis Boulevard
Cambria Heights, NY 11411
(Directly behind the Lubavitcher ohel, alongside the Tomashpol Rebbe)

[Read more →]

Rav in New York City
d. 25 Sivan, 1905
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path 42, at the corner of Main and Maple Road. In the same section as Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef. Four graves up nine graves in.)
The tombstone [...]

[Read more →]

Chief Rabbi of Norfolk, Virginia
d. 23 Cheshvan 1947
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Main Road, left on Maple Road , right on Willow Road, right on Path Y, 75 feet on the left side, third grave in)

[Read more →]

Rav in New York City
d. 11 Elul, 1929
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Cedar Avenue and Path: X)

[Read more →]

Rav, New York City
d. 20 Cheshvan, 1928 (5688)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
T; 718-366-3748
Location: Section 17, on the hill apposite the kever of Rav Alter Shaul Pfeffer, along the Mount Judah Cemetery fence
Click photo to enlarge, a new [...]

[Read more →]

Chief Rabbi of New York City
d. 24 Tamuz, 1902 (5662)
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum, the pervious Satmar Rebbe would encourage his chassidim to pray at the tzion of the Rav Yaakov Yosef. It is reported that many people have found salvation after visiting the tzion.
Full bio to be posted.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it [...]

[Read more →]

R”M, Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 25 Cheshvan, 1917 (5678)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Location: Path 69, look for Jacob Shapiro)

[Read more →]

Rav, New York City
d. 1 Av, 1876 (5636)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Machpelah Cemetery
82-30 Cypress Hills Street
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Enter from: Union Field Cemetery, Main Road, right on Path J past the trees into Machpelah Cemetery about thirty feet to the right past Rav Ash)

Credit: [...]

[Read more →]

Rav in New York City
d. 22 Kislev, 1892
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Corner of Main Road and Cedar Avenue, next to Rav Netkin)

[Read more →]

Rav, New York City
d. 27 Shevat, 1929 (5689)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
8211 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
718-366-3784
Location: Same section as Rav Yaakov Yosef Joseph (RJJ)
Click photo to enlarge, a new window will open, click that one as well

Photo Credit: Asher Lowy, Brooklyn, [...]

[Read more →]

Shiniver Klaus of the Lower East Side
d. 23 Adar II, 1916
The Rav was a great grandson of both the Sar Shalom of Belz and Rebbe Shimon Mariles of Yaroslav.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Willow Avenue, Path U, Shiniver [...]

[Read more →]

Kalever Rosh Yeshiva
d. 29 Tishrei, 1904
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Path X, Gate: 23)

[Read more →]