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Rav Yoffen was a son-in-law of Rav Yosef Yozel Horowitz, the Alter of Novardok and served as the director of the Novardok Yeshiva network across Eastern Europe. He fled to the U.S. at the outbreak of World War II and opened a yeshiva in Borough Park. In 1962 he moved to and founded a Kollel in Yerushalayim.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Chaim Hyamson, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Congregation Orach Chaim located at 1459 Lexington Ave, New York (d. 2019), Credit: Google

Photo Caption: Congregation Orach Chaim located at 1459 Lexington Ave, New York (d. 2019), Credit: Google

Photo Caption: Rabbi Berel Brennglass, Credit: Chris Brock (NNY-360)

Photo Caption: Massena, New York (c. 1930), Credit: Edward Berenson

Photo Caption: Rabbi Berel Brennglass, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Brennglass family, 1931, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rabbi Eliezer Brennglass, Credit: MCA

Of Note:
In September of 1928, just two days before Yom Kippur,  a blood libel was launched against the Jews of Massena. After only being missing for less than a day, the small Jewish community was accused of killing Babara Griffiths, a local four-year-old. It’s was claimed that they needed her blood for the upcoming Yom Kippur service. Rabbi Brennglass did everything in his power to protect his congregants as well as fight off the accusations. Griffiths was later found wandering lost in woods.

Mount Carmel Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location:  VEREIN CHOROSTKOWER, Section: 1, Block: D, Map: 32, Line: 4, Grave: 1

Photo Caption: Congregation Anshe Torath Chesed v’Zichro Torath Moshe located at 374-380 Vermont Street, Brownsville c. 1940, Credit: NYC

Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mon, 2/28/1921

Source: Yiddish Daily

Source: Morning Journal

Photo Credit: MCA

Bio Information:
Rabbi Yosef Zundel Weingarten who arrived here from Austria was the proprietor of the S. Weingarten Hand Matzoh Co. located at 74 Ridge Street and later relocated  34 Norfolk Street on the Lower East Side. Rabbi Weingarten a Sadigerer Chossid attracted the business of many Chassidim living in New York City at the time. After his passing, the bakery was managed by his wife Sarah.

Photo Caption: Preparing the dough at the Horowitz Margareten Matzah Bakery, March 13, 1937, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH) 
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Photo Caption: Inspecting the finished product, March 13, 1937, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Bio Information:
The Matzoh Bakery was founded in 1884 by Jacob Horowitz, a son of Isaac Horowitz, together with his sons; his daughter, Regina Horowitz Margareten; and her husband Ignatz Margareten, shortly after their immigration to New York from Hungary.

Rebbe Yosef Leifer, Pittsburger Rebbe, Credit: Assigned to IFJCAH

Bio Information: 
The Pittsburger Admorim, a scion of the Nadvorna line of Chassidic dynasties trace their lineage to Rebbe Meir’l of Premishlan (d. 1773), a student of the Baal Shem Tov.

Photo Caption: Both Rebbe Avroham Abba and the current Pittsburger Rebbe, Rebbe Mordechai Yissachar Ber, Credit IFJCAH

Bio Information: 
The Pittsburger Admorim, a scion of the Nadvorna line of Chassidic dynasties trace their lineage to Rebbe Meir’l of Premishlan (d. 1773). Prior to Pittsburg, the Rebbe rabbinated in Newark, New Jersey.

Photo Caption: Rav Simcha Wasserman, Credit: Needed 

Photo Caption: Rav Elchonon Wasserman, Rosh Yeshiva Baranavich, HY”D, Credit: IFJCAH

Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Rabbi Moshe Etter, MCA

Source: Rand

Credit: Yeshiva University 

Photo Caption: At a Sheva Brachos (c. 1970), Source: Inyan Magazine, November 6, 2019

1. Rav Chaim Yaakov Rosner, Tortzol Rav
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3. Rebbe Eliezer Zusya Portugal, Skulener Rebbe
4. Choson (unknown)

Photo Caption: Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, a prominent member of the Agudath Arabonim was among the over 400 Rabbanim and Admorim who on the day before Erev Yom Kippur, 1943 marched on Washington demanding that the Roosevelt administration help save the Jews of Europe. Credit: IFJCAH

Source: Four years of relief and war work by the Jews of America, 1914-1918

Note:
Rav Teitelbaum should not be confused with Grand Rebbe Aaron Teitelbaum of Satmar.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, Credit: Yeshiva University Archives

Bio Information:
Although he was Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) graduate, Rabbi Goldstein revied a personal rabbinical ordination (semicha) from Rabbi Shlomo Elchanon Jaffe of the Bais Medrash HaGadol of Norfolk Street.

In Memorial 
Mr. Harry Fischel (Yisroel Aaron) d. 1947
Buried: Har Hazesim (Mount of Olives) Cemetery, Jerusalem, Israel



Photo Caption: Harry Fischel Memorial at the Union Field Cemetery in Queens, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Harry Fischel Mausoleum, Har Hazesim (Mount of Olives) Cemetery, Jerusalem, Israel, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Agudas HaRabonim Convention Rockaway Park, New York, Credit: MCA

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4. Rav Chaim Kreiger, Newark, NJ
5. Rav Eliezer Silver, Cincinnati

Photo Caption: Unknown, Unkown, Rav Dovid Lifshitz, and Rav Eliezer Silver, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Aaron Kotler, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Eliezer Silver, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Moshe Feinstein, Credit: MCA

Please help us identify these Rabbonim or the place and time of the venue in the comments below or see the “Contact” page for other options.


Photo Caption: Dais Right Side (picture 1), Credit: MCA
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7. Rav Moshe Feinstein, Mesivta Tifereth Yerushalayim
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9. Rav Meir Cohen, Executive Vice President, Agudas HaRabonim
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11. Rav Chaim Kreiger, Newark, NJ
12. Ephraim Oshry, Beth Hamedrash Hagodol, NYC (unconfirmed)

Photo Caption: Dais Left Side (picture 2), Credit: MCA
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Photo Caption: Dais Left Side, Different Session (picture 3), Credit: MCA
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Photo Caption: Rabbonim in the audience, (picture 4), Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Meir Sharf, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Meir Sharf, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Sharf (L) along with Rav Eliezer Pupko of Philadelphia (R), outside  The White House, c. 1945, Credit: Life Photo Collection

Credit: Yitzchok Shteierman, Borough Park

Credit: Yitzchok Shteierman, Borough Park

Source: Rand

Photo Caption: Long-standing advertisement in the HaPardes magazine, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Rav Moshe Weinberger was among the first Hungarian Rabbanim to arrive in the United States. After several troubled attempts in the rabbinate, he founded the Pitt Street Matzah Bakery. The Pitt Street Matzah Bakery was the forerunner of the now famous Streit’s Matzah Bakery. Credit: IFJCAH

Photo caption: Rabbi Asher Nissan Levitan, overseeing production at the Streit’s , c. 1960 Credit: Aron Streit, Inc.

Photo Caption:  Rav Chaim Ben Tzion Notelevitz, Brooklyn and Rav Yosef Dov Ber Soloveitchik, Boston (Yeshiva University) at the Streit Matzo Bakery, Credit: Aron Streit, Inc.

Photo Caption: The RIETS Chabura at Streit Matzo Bakery, Source: Jewish Daily

Bio Information:
In the 1890’s, Aron Streit and his wife, Nettie, left Europe and came to America. In 1916, Aron opened his first matzo factory. There, on Pitt Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Aron and his first partner Rabbi Moshe Weinberger made all their matzo by hand. In 1925, Aron and one of his sons opened up a modern bakery on Rivington Street. A few years later, Aron’s other son joined the business. With the family working together, the Streit matzo bakery prospered and Aron bought three adjoining buildings to handle the growing business. In 2015, after nearly 100 years making matzo on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Streit’s moved to a new and modern bakery in Orangeburg, New York.
Source: Streit  Website

Photo Caption: Rabbonim outside the newly dedicated  offices of the Agudas Harobonim at 235 East Broadway on the Lower East Side, Credit: Needed

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2. Rav Zalman Reichman, Bronx, New York
3. Rav Dovid Lifschitz, Suwalker Rav
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5. Rav Simcha Elberg, General Editor of HaPardes
6. Rav Eliezer Silver, Cincinnati, Ohio
7. Rabbi Pinchas Teitz, Elizabeth, New Jersey
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Photo Caption: The building as it appears today (2019), Credit: Google Maps

Bio Information:
Agudas Harrabonim, a.k.a. the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (UOR), located at 235 East Broadway, was established in 1901 and is the oldest organization of Orthodox rabbis in the United States. For many years it was the main group of Orthodox rabbis in North America.

Credit: Yeshiva University 

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Photo Credit: Rabbi Lessin along with his family, Credit: MCA

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Source: Needed, June 3, 1965

Photo Caption: Letter on stationary by Rabbi Rosenfeld, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rabbi Rosenfield (younger) along with Rabbi Yitzchok Binyamin Mendolovitch (older), Credit: BPL, see photo

Photo Caption: Shepetivka Rebbe, Credit: Chaim Kowalsky

In Memorial:
Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz (d. 1791)



Photo Caption: Ohel of Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz, Shepetivka, Ukraine. It is also noted that his son, Rebbe Yehuda Meir (d. 29 Nissan, 5589 – May 2, 1829) was buried in the nearby cemetery, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Stashuver Rebbe, Credit: MCA


Source: Toldos Anshe Shem, Rand

Photo Caption: Rav Cham Krieger at a wedding, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Krieger along with Rav Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Krieger (10) at Agudas HaRabonim Conference, Rockaway Park, Credit: IFJCAH