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Rabbi Aaron Mordechai Ashinski

lizensk12 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:05:54 +0000

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 the Rav’s inaugural drasha (speech) among them many local politicians. After a lengthily din torah with his former congregants in Pittsburgh, who tried to force the Rav to move back, Rav Ashinski resettled in Pittsburgh. At the time of his passing the Rav was among the senior most Rabbonim in the United States.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Beth Hamedrash Hagadol-Beth Jacob Cemetery
34 Rosamond Street (off Vine Street)
McKees Rocks, PA, 15136

Rabbi Aryeh Leib Gutel

lizensk12 — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:04:15 +0000

Rav, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
d. 14 Shevat, 1944(5704)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Beth Hamedrash Hagadol-Beth Jacob Cemetery
34 Rosamond Street (off Vine Street)
McKees Rocks, PA, 15136
Location: Needed
Photo Credit: Rich Boyer, Pittsburgh, PA

Rabbi Avroham Bukspan

lizensk12 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:04:27 +0000

Rav, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d. 27 Elul, 1960 (5720)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
1200 Bartram Avenue
Collingdale, PA 19023
(610) 583-3151
Location: Needed
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Photo Credit: David Weider, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Rabbi Avroham Eliyahu Fink

lizensk12 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:07:43 +0000

Maggid Mishna, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
d. 15 Sivan, 1919 (5679)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Beth Hamedrash Hagadol-Beth Jacob Cemetery
34 Rosamond Street (off Vine Street)
McKees Rocks, PA, 15136
Location: Needed

Photo Credit: Lisa Grayson, Chicago, Illinois

Rabbi Baruch Dovid Rubin

lizensk12 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:05:49 +0000

Baal Bad Kodesh of Philadelphia
d. 2 Tamuz, 1930 (5690)
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
Location: Needed

Photo Credit: David Weider of Williamsburg

Rabbi Baruch Hanapolsky

lizensk12 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:10:40 +0000

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

Rabbi Baruch Jaffe

lizensk12 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:29:41 +0000

Rav, Pittsburgh, PA
d. 17 Iyar, 1943 (5703)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Shaare Torah Congregation Cemetery
827 Stewart Avenue (Carrick Section of the City)
Pittsburgh, PA 15227
(Location: Center, H)

Photo Credit: Rich Boyer, Pittsburgh, PA

Rabbi Dov Aryeh (Bernard) Levinthal

lizensk12 — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:41:33 +0000

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.)

Rabbi Dov Ber Kaminetsky

lizensk12 — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:45:09 +0000

Rav, 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 please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Needed

Photo Credit: www.virtualjudaica.com.

Rabbi Elchonon Tzvi (Henry) Guterman

lizensk12 — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:44:12 +0000

Chief Rabbi of Scranton and Lackawanna County
d. 6 Cheshvan, 1966 (5227)
Rav Guterman introduced a daily Gemara Shiur (lecture) in 1911 which ran for over 50 years, a ground breaking concept here in the United States at that time.
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
(Section: Linden, up the hill on the right side.)

Rabbi Eliezer Kleinberg

lizensk12 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:14:36 +0000

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 Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Joseph invited Rav Kleinberg to assume the pulpit at Congregation Bnai Abraham of Philadelphia. Soon after his funereal his son-in-law Rav Dov Aryeh Levinthal was installed has his successor.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Congregation Mikveh Israel Cemetery
5500 Market St
Philadelphia, PA 19139
(Its advisable to call the cemetery in advance (215) 922-5446.)

Rabbi Meir (Meyer) Schuster

lizensk12 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:04:19 +0000

Baal Safer Mamarey Chaz”l
d. 15 Adar II, 1981 (5761) Shushan Purim
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
1200 Bartram Avenue
Collingdale, PA 19023
(610) 583-3151
Location: Needed
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Photo Credit: David Weider, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Rabbi Moshe Shimon Sivitz (Zivitz)

lizensk12 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:14:21 +0000

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, the Kovner Rav.
The Rav’s first pulpit was in Phikelin, Lithuania in 1885 but soon after moved to the United States. Before becoming the Chief Rabbi of Pittsburgh the Rav spent two years in Baltimore. Rav Sivitz, known as an outspoken critic against the Reform movement, organized the first talmid torah (day school) in Pittsburgh. The Rav was held in high esteem by many Rabbonim in Europe among them Rav Yisroel Meir Kagan, the Chofetz Chaim who wrote the approbation to his commentary on Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud). As a side, the Rav delivered the keynote eulogy at Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Joseph’s funeral.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Shaare Torah Congregation Cemetery
827 Stewart Avenue (Carrick Section of the City)
Pittsburgh, PA 15227
Location: Center H 18

Photo Credit: Rich Boyer, Pittsburgh, PA

Rabbi Nachum Ball

lizensk12 — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:02:24 +0000

Rav, Bais Medrash HaGadol Anshei Romania
d. 14 Kislev, 1938 (5699)
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

Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Krevsky

lizensk12 — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:10:11 +0000

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

Rabbi Shmuel Tzvi Zahler

lizensk12 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:30:04 +0000

Rav, Pittsburgh, PA
d. 18 Adar I, 1943 (5703)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Shaare Torah Congregation Cemetery
827 Stewart Avenue (Carrick Section of the City)
Pittsburgh, PA 15227
(Location: Center, H)

Photo Credit: Rich Boyer, Pittsburgh, PA

Rabbi Yaakov Friedman

lizensk12 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:56:17 +0000

Chief Rabbi, 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

Rabbi Yisroel Shlomo Zalman Baurer

lizensk12 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:00:47 +0000

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 Cemetery
Shoemaker Rd
Dalton, PA 18414
(Section: Shomrei Shabbos )

Rabbi Yosef Leib Kaplan

lizensk12 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:19:53 +0000

Rav, Bais Medrash Hagadol of Pittsburgh
d. 1 Elul, 1952 (5712) Rosh Chodesh
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Beth Hamedrash Hagadol-Beth Jacob Cemetery
34 Rosamond Street (off Vine Street)
McKees Rocks, PA, 15136

Rebbe Chaim Moshe Ingerleib

lizensk12 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:40:35 +0000

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

Rebbe Menachem Schwartz

lizensk12 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:07:51 +0000

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)

Rebbe Moshe Tzvi Twersky

lizensk12 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:49:42 +0000

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

Rev Isaac Leeser

lizensk12 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:53:09 +0000

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 part of the Shabbos morning service delivered in English.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Congregation Mikveh Israel Cemtery
5500 Market St
Philadelphia, PA 19139
(A tall obelisk in the middle of the cemetery)
Its advisable to call the cemetery in advance (215) 922-5446.