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Chief Rabbi of Pittsburgh, PA
d. 28 Addar II, 1954 (5714)
Rav Ashinski served as Rav in Syracuse, NY, Utica, NY, Detroit, MI, and Montreal, Canada before settling in Pittsburgh. In 1922 he moved to Brooklyn, NY where he was appointed Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Beth Shalom (South Fifth Street and Marcy Avenue). Over 5,000 people attended [...]

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Baal Bad Kodesh of Philadelphia
d. 2 Tamuz, 1930
The Rav served in numerous cities across the United States among them Philadelphia, PA, Trenton, NJ, and Baltimore, MD.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Sharon Cemetery
502 E Springfield Road
Springfield, PA 19064
(Just outside of Philadelphia.)
610-543-8900

Photo Credit: David Weider [...]

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Rosh Yeshiva Mishkan Israel, Philadelphia
d. 18 Iyar, 1925 (Lag BaOmer)
The Rav moved to Philadelphia in 1905 from Kiev, Russia.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Har Jehuda Cemetery
8400 Lansdowne Avenue
Upper Darby, PA 19082
(610) 789-2104

Photo Credit: David Weider of  Williamsburg

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Chief Rabbi of Philadelphia, PA
d. 4 Tishrei, 1952 (5713)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Full bio to be posted.
Directions to kever:
Congregation Mikveh Israel Cemetery
5500 Market St
Philadelphia, PA 19139
(Its advisable to call the cemetery in advance (215) 922-5446.)

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Rav in Pittsburgh, PA
d.
Rav Kaminetsky delivered a moving eulogy for Rav Shmuel Salant in Pittsburgh on 5 Elul, 1909, a few days after his passing.
Anyone with information is asked to send it in.

Photo credit www.virtualjudaica.com.

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Chief Rabbi of Scranton and Lackawanna County
In 1911, Rav Guterman introduced a daily Gemara lecture, a concept that was unheard of  in the pre Daf Yomi days.
d. 6 Cheshvan, 1966
Dalton Jewish Cemetery
(Linden Section)
Shoemaker Rd
Dalton, PA 18414

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Congregation Bnai Abraham, Philadelphia
d. 1 Adar I, 1891
Rav Kleinberg was born in the town of Bavisk, Lithuania and was the son-in-law of Rav Yisrael Lipchitz, the Chief Judge of the Vilna Bias Din. Soon after his father-in-laws passing the Rav was appointed as his replacement. He was then known as Rav Eliezer Dayan.
In 1890 Chief [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Pittsburgh, PA
d. 11 Av, 1936 (5696)
Rav Sivitz was born in Zhitovyan (Kovno), Lithuania and studied in the Yeshivos of Slovan and Chelm, where he became a close disciple of Rav Eliezer Gordon, the Telzer rosh yeshiva. He also received semicha (ordained) from Rav Gordon and additional semicha from Rav Yitzchok Elchonon Spector, [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Allentown, PA
d. Nissan, 1955
Rav Kresky was a longtime member of the Agudath Arabonim.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Congregation Sons of Israel
Agudas Achim and Shaarei Sholom Cemetery
200 Catasauqua Aveenue
Fullerton, PA 18052
(610) 433-6089
(Agudas Achim Section)

Photo Credit: Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner, Moreh Dasrah Allentown, PA

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Chief Rabbi of Clairton, Pennsylvania
d. 22 Tammuz, 1940 (5700)
Anyone with information is asked to send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Sefard Cemetery
Center Street
McKeesport , PA 15132

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Chief Rabbi of Wilkes-Barre, PA
d. 27 Av, 1949 (5709)
Rav Baurer the personal secretary of Rebbe Yisroel Friedman, the Chortkover Rebbe prior to coming to the United States, wrote many seforim and was a member of the Agudas Harabonim.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Dalton Jewish [...]

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Cremenetzer Rebbe
d. 16 Av, 1932
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Sharon Cemetery
502 E Springfield Rd
Springfield, PA 19064
(Just outside of Philadelphia.)
610-543-8900

Photo Credit: David Weider of  Williamsburg

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Scrantoner Rebbe
d. 21 Nissan, 1939
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Dalton Jewish Cemetery
Shoemaker Road
Dalton, PA 18414
(Part of a larger stone, on the far left side of the cemetery)

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Tolna Philadelphia Rebbe
d. 25 Sivan, 1972 (5732)
Anyone with information is asked to send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mount Sharon Cemetery
502 E Springfield Road
Springfield, PA 19064
(Just outside of Philadelphia.)
(610) 543-8900

Photo Credit: David Weider of  Williamsburg

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Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia
d. 8 Shevat, 1868
Rev Leeser founded The Occident, the first general American Jewish magazine. The Occident is one of the most important records of American Jewish life in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Rev Lesser was the first Rabbinic authority in the United Stated to introduce a weekly sermon as [...]

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