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• 1 curios // Feb 22, 2011 at 2:11 am

  Interesting that there’s no last nmae.

  Ohr Hachaim Yeshiva was known as Reb Hershel Slabodkerer’s Yeshiva. His name was Reb Hershel Levitan. The Yeshiva was founded by the Alter of Slabodka for younger boys.

• 2 curios // Feb 22, 2011 at 2:16 am

  His last name was Dzikansky. See here: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=22906&st=&pgnum=63&hilite=.

  His wife was a granddaughter of the above mentioned Reb Hershel.
  His father-in-law Reb Avigdor Menkovitz had other choshuver sons-in-law, among them Reb Yisroel Isser Shapiro, the son of Reb Refoel from Volozhin.

• 3 curios // Feb 22, 2011 at 2:20 am

  See also here: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=28680&st=&pgnum=10&hilite=.

  (On the right side, there is about Rabbi Shochatowitz).

• 4 YD Miller // Feb 22, 2011 at 12:04 pm

  There is a famous retired NYPD Detective Mordechai Zev Dzikansky who was the 3rd Orthodox jeww to join the NYPD in 1983,

  He ended up traveling the world in the fight against terror and authored the book “Terrorist Cop: The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists”

  I would assume that he is a Einikel and namesake of this Rosh Yeshiva

  http://www.police-writers.com/mordecai_dzikansky.html

• 5 YD Miller // Feb 22, 2011 at 12:16 pm

  “The Story of the Dziaknsky Family”:

  http://web.mit.edu/chaim/prototype_user/Public/Dzikansky/Dzikansky_Story_Page.html

• 6 Farshlufen // Feb 22, 2011 at 2:11 pm

  http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=28531&st=&pgnum=106

• 7 Adina Kutnicki,Israel // Feb 23, 2011 at 10:28 am

  Shalom,

  You all are good detectives, just like his namesake, NYPD(ret)Homicide Detective, First Grade,Mordecai Zev Dzikansky.
  I never knew my grandfather because he died before I was born, but suffice it to say, I got used to ’special’ treatment in my schools when the Rabbis found out I was ‘that’ Dzikansky.
  I do know that his last years were spent as a Rosh Yeshiva at MTJ on the lower east side of NYC. He was so beloved that when he suffered a stroke his talmidim insisted on learning at his home, sitting alongside him to glean any wisdom they could.
  The revered Rabbi Moshe Feinstein took my grandfather’s place when he became too ill.

  It is very special that people posted it.Our family will be delighted.

• 8 curios // Feb 23, 2011 at 6:59 pm

  Adina, see here too: http://www.otzar.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4055.

• 9 admin // Feb 23, 2011 at 7:41 pm

  
  Photo Credit: From the archives of Chaim Kutnicki

• 10 Adina Kutnicki, Israel // Feb 24, 2011 at 6:07 am

  Curios, thanks for the additional link. By the way, the picture my son Chaim posted above is one that my sister Navah, and our father, Rabbi Jekuthiel Dzikansky z”l, kept hung on their walls.It is a family favorite.His grandchildren always noted the ‘twinkle’ in his eye from that picture, most likely he would have been a very kind grandfather/saba.We always felt we missed something by not having him in our lives.

• 11 YD Miller // Feb 24, 2011 at 3:35 pm

  Adinah,
  Where was your father a Rabbi and where is he burried?
  I saw your son had the date of your Grandfather’s passing wrong on his website, is this the first time you see his Matzeive/Tombstone?
  Is the above mentioned detective Mordy Dzikansky your brother?

• 12 Adina Kutnicki, Israel // Feb 24, 2011 at 5:07 pm

  YD Miller, my father was a Rabbi at YU for 45 years, when he first came from Europe he was teaching the smicha students at REITS.Even though he did not speak any English they were thrilled to have a Rabbi from Telz Yeshiva in Europe, a son of Rabbi Mordecai Zev Dzikansky on board.
  My father, Rabbi Jekuthiel Dzikansky, z”l, is buried at Beth Moses Cemetery in Pine Lawn, Long Island.
  My grandfather ’s yarzheit is the 14th of Cheshvan.
  Yes, ‘Morty’ Dzikansky is my brother, the famous anti-terror cop, a worldwide expert(of all things!) in suicide bombings.

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