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.
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Directions to kever:
Beth Hamedrash Hagadol-Beth Jacob Cemetery
34 Rosamond Street (off Vine Street)
McKees Rocks, PA, 15136
14 responses so far ↓
1 Mendel // Apr 19, 2009 at 3:37 pm
There was a Rabbi Yecheskel Ashinski in Detroit, were they related?
2 Miller // Apr 19, 2009 at 4:59 pm
The Rav had a SIL Rabbi Nachmen Zvi Evin who was first Rav in Scranton PA and then in Cleveland OH
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=29054&hilite=a0e79683-8da8-42a6-8eac-f810a6af4948&pgnum=13
3 Rabbi Stern // Apr 20, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Miller:
Perhaps you mean Rabbi Ebin whose kever is posted on this sight.
http://kevarim.com/rabbi-nachman-tzvi-ebin/
4 Miller // Apr 20, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Yes, thanks Rabbi Stern
5 Shmuel // Jun 9, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Does anyone know where the Rav is buried?
6 Yaakov Berger // Aug 17, 2010 at 4:01 pm
A beautiful obituary:
http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/books/pages.cgi?layout=vol0/part0/copy0&call=CRI_1954_123_026_04091954&file=0009
7 Yaakov Berger // Aug 17, 2010 at 4:03 pm
And more, with a picture:
http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/books/pages.cgi?layout=vol0/part0/copy0&call=CRI_1954_123_026_04091954&file=0018
8 Admin // Aug 24, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Much appreciation to Jack Berger and Rich Boyer for sending in the pictures.
9 Farshlufen // Aug 25, 2010 at 9:17 am
What was the last name of his father in law?
10 Farshlufen // Oct 29, 2010 at 8:43 am
Does anyone know where Rabbi Aleyuhu Zev Kochin from Pittsburgh Pa. is burried?
1 of the volumes of his sefer on Hebrew books:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=2082&st=&pgnum=1
11 Farshlufen // Oct 29, 2010 at 8:44 am
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OMYaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uUkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4145,4251864&dq=rabbi+kochin&hl=en
12 Farshlufen // Oct 31, 2010 at 11:47 am
Rav Kuchin passed away on November 26 1946 כ’ חשון תש”ז and is burried in the Tiferes [Beth] Israel cemetery:
http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/books/pages.cgi?layout=vol0/part0/copy0&call=CRI_1934_083_020_03231934&file=0003
13 farshlufen // Oct 31, 2010 at 3:08 pm
I mistakenly placed another link, here is the righ one.
http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/books/pages.cgi?layout=vol0/part0/copy0&call=OUT_1946_024_025_11291946&file=0013
14 Anne Lieberman // Mar 24, 2011 at 8:43 pm
If anyone can help with the genealogy of this family, I am looking for the parents (and beyond) of Rabbi Ashinsky’s cousin, Morris Aschinski of Philadelphia — on behalf of his descendants.
I know only that the father of Morris must have been brother to the rabbi’s father, Nachman back in Lomza (Poland/Russia).
Thank you for any assistance.
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