11 Comments

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   Ah Shtikle History on May 14, 2009 at 3:32 pm

   Rabbi Michael Albagli, the Av Bais Din of the Greek Island of Rhodes was a Rav in Portland do you know where he was buried?

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   J Berger on July 9, 2009 at 1:27 pm

   He is buried in EY, he was visiting family at the time. Is wife is buried in Portland.

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   YD Miller on June 23, 2011 at 2:05 pm

   letter of Rabbi Fain:
   http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=290549947618

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   Reb Elya on December 28, 2012 at 12:17 am

   http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=2714&st=&pgnum=102

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   Ben Bee Zee on May 4, 2014 at 6:53 pm

   Thanks to Rabbi Nechunya a colleague at Moreshes Chachmei America, it was discovered that Rabbi Fines original name was actually ‘Faivusovitch’,

   source: http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/congregation_shaarie_torah/
   Originally formed by men who had come to Portland from the same part of Eastern Europe, Shaarie Torah grew steadily as more Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe arrived in Portland. Initially, the congregation engaged rabbis and cantors on a short-term basis, but in 1916 they brought Rabbi Joseph Faivusovitch to Portland in a permanent position. He soon changed his name to Fain, because his daughter disliked writing her long surname on school papers.

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   Farshlufen @ Moreshes on May 16, 2018 at 2:48 pm

   מציבת אשתו הרבנית

   https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.billiongraves.com/headstones/images/20150506/12071611.jpg?t=2017-11-13+06%3A12%3A03

   https://billiongraves.com/grave/Sarah-S-Fain/14109326#/

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   Shalom on January 10, 2021 at 2:57 am

   Does Rabbi Fain have any descendants?

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   A Rosenberg on July 12, 2022 at 4:31 pm

   Hi Shalom, I’m originally from Portland (now in Chicago) and very interested in genealogy – I actually own the sefer with the stamp posted above (HaMedrash v’he’Maaseh al HaTorah by Rav Yechezkel Libschutz of Kalish).

   Unfortunately, like many Jews of the time, his family didn’t maintain a connection to frumkeit – I believe his son died young while a student at Columbia University – I’d heard he was studying to be a rabbi (not sure if Conservative or Reform). I’ve met descendants of his who unfortunately didn’t understand who he was.

   My friend’s grandfather, Rabbi Joseph Karasick, whose grandfather Rabbi Gershon Katzman was the Rav of San Francisco, told me that Rabbi Fain was known as the mumcheh in Gittin on the West Coast.

   By the way – the name is not Fein – but pronounced Fayn.

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   A Rosenberg on July 12, 2022 at 4:46 pm

   He was also the Rav HaMachshir for Manischewitz’s flour mills in Tacoma and Spokane, WA.

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    And where are they? on December 27, 2022 at 10:32 pm

    Dear A Rosenberg

    Thank you. Do you know if any of his descendants have his writings?

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    Dovid l on August 6, 2023 at 4:14 am

    I found a letter from him in a university concerning hilchos gittin