Moreh Dasrah Congregation Orach Chaim, NYC
d. 25 Cheshvan, 1909
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Directions to kever:
Beth Olam Cemetery
2 Cypress Hills Street,
Ridgewood (Queens), New York 11208
(Part of a larger stone)
(Section: Shearith Israel, Main entrance, on the left of the Chapel Building, along the path)
Rav Yosef Mayor Asher
December 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: Beth Olam · New York · Queens / L.I., NY
6 responses so far ↓
1 Moshe Bergman // Dec 31, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Congregation Orach Chaim is still around its not far from Mount Sinai Hospital.
2 Dave T // Nov 11, 2009 at 2:00 pm
After the Rav’s passing Rabbi Dr. Joseph Herman Hertz the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire was installed as Rav from 1911 until 1913 (when he was elected to the Chief Rabbi position).
3 Gedalyah // Nov 11, 2009 at 7:31 pm
A history of this shul can be found by going to:
http://www.orachchaim.org/history.asp
4 asher // Nov 11, 2009 at 8:44 pm
TY David T for posting, Yahrzeit is tonight.
If his father was Asher Asher, can we safely assume that these links are him.
Small bio and Picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asher_Asher
Headstone:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6001314
5 MBD // Nov 12, 2009 at 11:38 am
Was Dr. Asher Asher also a Rav?
6 YD Miller // Dec 28, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Rev. Dr. Joseph Mayor Asher studied with Solomon Schechter in England, and was appointed Proffesor of Homeletics in JTS.
He himself was strictly Orthodox, he wrote a book named “Jewish Food and Health Laws”
The NYT Obituary:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70A1EF93D5412738DDDAF0894DA415B898CF1D3
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