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Rav Velenkin, a Ga’on in his own right was originally brought to Yekatrinoslav as a Shochet. Among his many students was one Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, who would go on to become the 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Photo Caption: (Center 3) Rav Yitzchok Stollman, Detriot, Rav Yosef Dov Ber Soloveitchik, Boston, and Rav Notelevitz (not wearing a hat), Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rabbis Notelevitz and Soloveitchik at the Manischewitz Matzoh Bakery, Credit: MAC

Source: Jewish Daily

Source: Orthodox Judaism In America, Sherman

Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Note: Many of the Rabbonim are identified in the previous picture above, Credit: MCA
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Agudas HaRabonim History:







Source: Orthodox Judaism in America, Moshe D. Sherman

Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Source: Moreshes Chachmei America (MCA)

Source: Hapardes

Photo Caption: Kosher for Passover products from the Manischewitz company under the supervision of Rav Seigel, Source: Day Jewish Journal, 1965

Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Source: Needed 

Photo Caption: Rav Yaakov Yehuda Hecht, Credit: Rabbi Mordechai Hecht, Anshe Sholom Chabad JCC

Photo Caption: (L-R) Rav Mordechai Gifter of Telz Cleveland, Rav Shalom Ber Hecht of Queens (speaking), Rav JJ Hecht, Rav Chaim Gutnick of Australia, Credit: Credit: Rabbi Mordechai Hecht, Anshe Sholom Chabad JCC

Rav Brevdah was a student in Radin under the Chofetz Chaim and later travel to Shanghai, China with the Mirrer Yeshiva.

Photo Caption: Rebbe Moshe Menachem Spiegel along with his son Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Spiegel of the Romanian Shul, Credit: Binim Lieberson

Photo Caption: Title page Ateres Tzvi, authored by Rav Lass, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Photo Caption: Rav Lass’s rabbinic stamp, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Photo Caption: Rav Lass, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Beth Din Kosher Certification signed by Rabbi Lass, Rabbi Shmuel Tzvi Wein, and Rabbi Dovid Rodinsky, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman (d.1976) Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Credit: N/N

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America 

Bio Information: 
For close to 30 years, Rav Rodshtein served as the personal secretary to Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Lubavitcher Rebbe (d. 1950) and his successor Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (d. 1994), more commonly known as “The Rebbe”.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Moshe Leib Rodshtein, Credit: Chicago Rabbis

Credit: Chicago Rabbis

Photo Caption: Rebbe Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Rabbi Pinchos Friedman, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Pinkus (community register of deceased members of the congregation) for Congregation Ahavas Achim Anshei Ungarin, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Congregation Ahavas Achim Anshei Ungarin located at  70 Columbia Street in the Lower East Side as it appeared in 1940, Credit: NYC

Photo Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America 

Bio Information:
Rav Wactfogel while originally buried in Montreal was reinterred 3 years later at Har HaMenuchos Cemetery, Jerusalem, Israel. His son Rav Meir Nosson (d.1998) was the famed Lakewood Mashgiach for more than 50 years. His grandson,  Rav Elya Ber is rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Moshe of South Fallsburg

Credit: Yeshiva University

Photo Caption: 1. Rav Dovid Lifschitz, Suwalker Rav, 2. Rav Moshe Shatzkes, Lomza Rav, 3. Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, R”Y RIETS, 4. Rav Chaim Heller, R”Y RIETS, 5. Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Belkin, President Yeshiva University 

Overview Of Section 30 Damage:

Overview Of Section 30 Damage:

Photo Caption: Rav Shmuel Alter, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America (MCA)

Photo Caption: Agudath Israel of Havana Cuba (European refugees), center row (l. to r.): Dr. Mendel Friedman (in white straw hat), Rav Shmuel Alter, Rav Osher Segal, Credit: Agudath Israel

Photo Caption: Poster announcing the passing of Rav Alter, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Congregation Machzikei Hadas D’Chassidei Sadigora at 23 Herzl Street in Brooklyn c.1940, Credit: NYC

Bio Information:
Rav Shmuel Alter authored Lekita Basar Lekita (20 volumes) worker tirelessly for the Jews in Cuba as well as spreading Torah throughout the United States. At the time of his passing, he was the Moreh Dasrah at Congregation Machzikei Hadas D’Chassidei Sadigora in Brooklyn‎. Sadly he left no children.

Photo Credit: Rabbi Mordechai Hecht, Anshe Sholom Chabad JCC


Photo Caption: Rebbe Yehoshua Wagschal letterhead, Credit: Photo Credit: Rabbi Mordechai Hecht, Anshe Sholom Chabad JCC

Photo Caption: Offical records, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Schulsinger Brothers edition of Noam Elimelech printed in New York (1942) by the Frysztak – Korczyn Rebbe, Credit: VirtualJudaica.com

Bio Information:
The Rebbe was a descendant of the Noam Elimelech, the Rebbe of Lizensk d. 1787

Photo Caption: Title page of Toras Meir printed in New York City, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Toras Meir, reprinted Jerusalem edition, Credit: HebrewBooks

Bio Information:
The Rav, who studied at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva, better known as Volozhin authored a number of seforim (books).

Photo Caption: Rev Ignatz Jacob Kunreuther, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Rav Naftali Halavi Kunreuthrt, Cheif Rabbi, Glenhausen, Germany (Glenhausen is a suburb of Frankfurt am Main), Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America.

Photo Caption: Abraham Kohn (see bio below) and Rev Ignatz Jacob Kunreuther, Credit: The Jews of Chicago, Cutler


Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, and Leaders 

Credit: Yeshiva University

Photo Caption: Orthodox Judaism in America, Moshe D. Sherman

Photo Caption: A Kol Koreh regarding Kollel America, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America
Note: The above rabbinic list is complete, no names were removed.

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Rabbi Chaim Dovid Regensberg of Chicago (the Rav’s uncle), Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Short Bio

Photo Caption: Rav Eliyahu Avrohma Regensberg, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Rav Dov Menachem Regensburg (HY”D) of Zambrova, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: The family of Rav Yechiel including his son Shneur Zalman, a Chazan (cantor) who served in Montreal, Canada as well as Los Angeles, California where he is buried (see below), Credit:  Moreshes Chachmei America.

Photo Caption: Rav Yechiel’s connection to the Ba’al HaTanya (Alter Rebbe)

Photo Caption: Rav Chaim Tzvi Schneerson (d. 1881), the Rav’s grandfather, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Scetch of Rav Chaim Tzvi Schneerson upon his arrival to the United States, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Letter from Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe which mentions Rav Yechiel and his son Shneur Zalman.

Photo Caption: Safer (book) compiled by Rav Yechiel, Credit: Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad

Photo Caption: Marker of Shneur Zalman Schneersohn at the Mount Zion Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, Credit: Larry Luna

Photo Caption: Marker of Yisroel Dov Schneersohn at the Cholon Cemetery, Holon, Israel

Photo Caption: Marker of Chana Toba Feingold (married to Rabbi Avroham Fishel, Rav, New Orleans is a Louisiana), Old Tiberias Cemetery, Israel, Credit: Billion Graves