23 Comments

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   Brian Arens on June 22, 2009 at 11:36 pm

   Benjamin Aronowizt was my great grandfather, very cool to have found this!

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   Eric Arens on June 23, 2009 at 9:43 am

   Rabbi Aronowitz was my great grandfather.

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   MBD on June 23, 2009 at 4:44 pm

   Please tell us a little about your grandfather.

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   Brian Arens on June 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.

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   Brian Arens on June 23, 2009 at 11:37 pm

   correction, he died long before either of us was born.

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   Miller on June 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

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   Henny Moed Roth on June 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…..

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   MBD on June 30, 2009 at 10:12 am

   Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, is the rabbinic division of Yeshiva University.

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   Adam Arens on July 3, 2009 at 11:45 am

   I have sent a photo of Rav Binyamin Aronowitz to Baruch Amsel. Kol Tov

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    Yehudis on October 18, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    hi. have any of you found out the history of Rav Aronowitz? we are related to him too, but we are not sure how. if you have figured out any thing, or a family tree. please let me know asap. i would really apreciate it. thank you!

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    Ben Bee Zee on December 11, 2012 at 4:49 pm

    celebration at REITS upon turning 60 years http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=23067&st=&pgnum=248&hilite=

12. 

    Samantha Schuster on December 26, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    I have been researching my family tree and also my husbands and we have found Benjamin (Benyamin) Aronowitch. He was the father of my husbands Great Grandmother Anna. We have also come into contact with other relatives and have more information now and more photos. I would be happy to share!

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    Farshlufen on August 26, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    Congratulattions upon serving 25 years in RIETS:
    http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=12005&st=&pgnum=5
    Credit: מורשת חכמי אמעריקא

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    YD Miller on December 10, 2013 at 11:02 am

    Letter written by Rabbi Aronowitz, while still in Lowell Mass.:
    http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=52872&st=&pgnum=54

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    bdgreenbel on January 31, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    Yehudis: How are you related? I have info. He was my great grandfather
    Also, does anyone know what the letter written by Rabbi Aronowitz (in Hebrew) says??
    Thanks.

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    bdgreenbel on January 31, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    Also, does anyone know what it says on his grave?

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    YD Miller on February 3, 2014 at 11:53 am

    Hi BD,

    The marker on his grave says:
    “Here is buried, our beloved father, the Rabbi the “Gaon” (Torah genious) Rabbi Binyumin son of R’ Yosef Aronowitz, who served as R”M (abbreciation for Resh Mesivta which is an Aramaic phrase for an instructor on Talmudic studies) in the Yeshivah Rabbi Isaac Elchanan.

    Born on 15 Nissan 5523 died on 8 Tishri 5606″

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    bdgreenbel on February 22, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    Thank you! I just noticed that you’d answered. I appreciate it very much. ( And the picture too.)

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    YD Miller on July 22, 2015 at 12:28 pm

    Hapardes on his passing and funeral:

    http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=12353&st=&pgnum=38

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    Yoni Ben-Ari on August 4, 2015 at 10:49 am

    Any connecction to Rabbi Aronowitz, who was a hebrew teacher at the Chicago Jewish Academy in the 1950s-?

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    Debra Edelson on March 21, 2017 at 10:04 pm

    I am also a great granddaughter of Rabbi Aronowitz. The picture of him with his hand on his head was in our living room all my life. He had the most beautiful eyes but since it was an oil painting he watched over us. My mother’s name was Sybil Arens.

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    Rabbi Leonard E. Book PhD on May 24, 2021 at 4:45 am

    I am translating the Sefer קשר תורה by HaRav HaGaon Rabbi Isaac (יצחק) Aharonowitz תז”ל.
    According to information received, my late father Toby ע”ה was the son of Julia, nee Rieck, who was the daughter of Moshe Aaron Rieck, husband of Chai Abigail Aharonowitz daughter of HaRav Yitzchok Aharonowitz.

    If any descendant of the family is able to provide further information, It would be greatly appreciated.

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    Charles Cohen on March 5, 2022 at 1:05 pm

    I would be interested in contacting Henny Moed Roth .I have information on her grandmother Janetta.