Rosh Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)
d. 8 Tishrei, 1945
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Mount Judah Cemetery Section One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Corner of Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue Section V:1, left side, apposite the Yampole Rebbe)
Rabbi Binyamin Aronowitz
December 3rd, 2007 · 9 Comments
Tags: Mount Judah Cemetery · New York · Queens / L.I., NY · Rosh Yeshiva
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1 Brian Arens // Jun 22, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Benjamin Aronowizt was my great grandfather, very cool to have found this!
2 Eric Arens // Jun 23, 2009 at 9:43 am
Rabbi Aronowitz was my great grandfather.
3 MBD // Jun 23, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Please tell us a little about your grandfather.
4 Brian Arens // Jun 23, 2009 at 11:36 pm
I don’t, nor do I think my brother Eric know a great deal about him, he was born long before either of us was born. BTW MBD he was our great grandfather. All I really know is that he had 7 children 3 boys, 4 girls. All but one was born in Lithuania. His son Joseph was our grandfather. I also know he lived in the Bronx.
5 Brian Arens // Jun 23, 2009 at 11:37 pm
correction, he died long before either of us was born.
6 Miller // Jun 24, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Brian and Eric,
You might want to dig into your Gfather’s history and perhaps write a biographicak book about him, or collect his Talmudic Comentaries distributed in various periodicals of his time.
Rav Aronowitz was born in Varzhan, Lithuania in 1864, came to the US in 1906, served first in Lowell, Mas. before coming to REITS in NY.
He estblished the office of Agudath Yisroel in the US and was a member in the Agudath Harabanim.
A litlle more about him as well as on the other RIETS Rabanim can be found on thier website
http://www.yu.edu/riets/index.aspx?id=23718
7 Henny Moed Roth // Jun 29, 2009 at 11:02 pm
My grandmother Jette ARONOWITZ (married to my grandfather Wulf JAWETZ) was the granddaughter of Rabbi Yitzchak ben Menachem ARONOWITZ of Rietavas, Lithuania (1794-1889). Any relation to the above rabbinical family? And does RIETS stand for? Pardon my ignorance…..
8 MBD // Jun 30, 2009 at 10:12 am
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, is the rabbinic division of Yeshiva University.
9 Adam Arens // Jul 3, 2009 at 11:45 am
I have sent a photo of Rav Binyamin Aronowitz to Baruch Amsel. Kol Tov
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