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• 1 Ben Bee Zee // May 25, 2010 at 3:43 pm

  Rabbi Leventahl assumed the Rabbonis there already in 1891! he was extremely active in preserving the Yidishkeit, established 3 Talmud Torahs where 1,500 kids were learning at that time, founded a Yeshiva Mishkan Yisroel where 70 boys were learning and other institutions aiding the orphans and the sick. According to the following link there was no Orthodox organization -strengthening Yidishkeit- in the USA in which the rabbi didn’t take a top position in keeping it up.
  http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=36602&st=&pgnum=355

• 2 LESKid // May 27, 2010 at 7:09 am

  His son, Rabbi Israel H. Leventhal, was famous head of the Brooklyn Jewish Center. His father was an Aguda type of rabbi but the younger son graduated from JTS.

• 3 Ben Bee Zee // Jul 1, 2010 at 12:04 pm

  Some more information about Rabbi Levintahl, it also mentions that he was supposed to succeed the Rav Hakolel’s position.

  http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D01E6DD1030E733A25756C0A96E9C946397D6CF

• 4 Ben Bee Zee // Jul 1, 2010 at 12:33 pm

  Here http://www.wymaninstitute.org/special/rabbimarch/pg08photos.php on the top photo to the right there’s a picture of Rabbi Leventahl at the 400 Rabbi March in Washington to plea with FDR for the rescue of the Jews in Europe.

• 5 YD Miller // Jul 23, 2010 at 12:06 pm

  Rabbi Levinthal came to Philladelphia to assume the posiyion of his Father-in-law Rabbi Eliezer Kleinberg http://kevarim.com/rabbi-eliezer-kleinberg/.

  On his 70th birthday the Kehilla printed a journal Kevud Chachumim, it includes some biographical information ontheRav, see here;
  http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=36758&st=&pgnum=72

• 6 YD Miller // Jul 23, 2010 at 12:20 pm

  Full bio of Isreal Herbert Levinthal:
  http://books.google.com/books?id=cffYUkXFVvAC&lpg=PA174&dq=Rabbi%20kleinberg%20philadelphia&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=false

• 7 Farshlufen // Jul 23, 2010 at 12:57 pm

  Ay Ay Ameritchka.

• 8 YD Miller // Aug 3, 2010 at 2:50 pm

  I find in the Illustrated Magazine Vol 5, the Rabbi Lebinthal was also the official Rabbi of Woodbine NJ
  http://books.google.com/books?id=CHwpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA544&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U0WMob7Uu7AmAFFPDORYo2Gz_b6mQ&ci=460%2C761%2C455%2C117&edge=0

• 9 EJ // Jul 6, 2011 at 2:41 pm

  Rabbi Dov Arye b. Abraham ha-Kohen Levinthal (Bernard Louis, 1865–1952), was born in Lithuania, went to the United States in 1891 after having studied at the yeshivot of Kovno, Vilna, and Bialystok. Settling in Philadelphia, he succeeded his father-in-law, Eleazar Kleinberg, as rabbi of Congregation B’nai Abraham, where he served until his death, and as head of the United Orthodox Hebrew Congregations of Philadelphia. Levinthal was an able organizer and was responsible for the establishment of a number of institutions tending to the religious and social needs of the immigrant Jewish community, such as the Central Talmud Torah, out of which later grew the Yeshivah Mishkan Israel, and a municipal va’ad ha-kashruth to supervise ritual slaughtering. One of the founders of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada in 1902, of which he was the first president, his energy and wide range of interests enabled him to represent the Orthodox point of view in the greater Jewish community. He was a founder of the American Jewish Committee and a member of the delegation sent by the American Jewish Congress to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. An active Zionist as well, he helped to establish the Mizrachi Organization of America and was an honorary vice-president of the Federation of American Zionists.

• 10 Farshlufen // Jul 17, 2011 at 9:44 am

  Who is this Rav?

  רב בנציון האפפמאן רב דקהל בני משה אנשי ספרד פילאדעלפיע פא.

  JANUARY 30, 1924
  Rabbi Benzion Hoffman Dies in Philadelphia

  Philadelphia, Jan. 30 (JTA) –
  Rabbi Ben Zion Hoffman passed away suddenly Tuesday afternoon at the age of 50. His death followed a heart attack shortly after he had been brought to Mt. Sinai hospital.
  Rabbi Hoffman was the second ranking orthodox rabbi of the Philadelphia community. With Rabbi Leventhal practically blind and Rabbi Hoffman dead, the city remains without an orthodox leader.
  Rabbi Hoffman came to America in 1904 from Bessarabia. He was rabbi of the Congregation Bnei Moshe, and was founder of the Bessarabian Talmud Torah. He is survived by his widow and six dependent children. His oldest son is Jacob B. Hoffman, prominent Philadelphia communal and Zionist worker, and member of the National Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization of America.

  http://archive.jta.org/article/1924/01/30/2756582/rabbi-benzion-hoffman-dies-in-philadelphia

  http://books.google.com/books?id=HadKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA547&ots=7H2AziT7Mh&dq=bnei%20moshe%20philadelphia&pg=PA547#v=onepage&q&f=false

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