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Rav in Toronto, Canada d. 11 Sivan, 1941 (5701) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Roselawn Avenue Cemetery 619 Roselawn Avenue Toronto ON, Canada (To the left of the Krakover Toronto Rebbe’s ohel)

Photo Caption: Rav Dov Yehuda Schochet delivering a sermon, Credit: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer, Monsey, NY

Photo Caption: Rav Dov Yehuda Schochet, Credit: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer, Monsey, NY

Note: Special thanks to Circus Tent “theantitzemach.blogspot.com” for picture origination.

Bio Information:
Rabbi Dov Yehuda Schochet zt”l was born in 1905 in Telšiai (Telshe, Telz) Lithuania. He was one of the most distinguished talmidim of the Telshe yeshiva, chosen by his Rebbe Muvhak, Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch zt”l, to be one of the yeshiva’s delegates to the second Knessiah Gedolah. He was one of the very few talmidim of R’ Yosef Leib who was not a family member who participated in compiling his rebbe’s Shiurei Da’as for publication. He served as rabbi in Basel, Switzerland from 1930 until 1947, and from 1947 to 1952 he served as chief rabbi of The Hague and the adjacent regional towns, in the Netherlands. Rabbi Schochet, his Rebbitzen Sarah (nee Musensohn, a scion of one of the most illustrious families in Lithuania) and their ten children then emigrated to Toronto, where Rabbi Schochet served as a Rav and Mechanech until his petirah in 1974 (5735). While in Toronto he became close to the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt”l (whose personal secretary, Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Hodakov zt”l, was Rabbi Schochet’s sister’s husband). Rabbi Schochet and his wife are buried in the Ostrovtzer cemetery, the cemetery of the first shul in which he served in Toronto, Anshei Ostrovtzer. Many of Rabbi and Mrs. Schochet’s children and grandchildren are leading Rabbonim, Roshei Yeshiva and Talmidei Chachamim throughout the Jewish world.
Source: Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer

Photo Caption: Hascal and Annie Moses née Wichefsky  with daughter Rita and Rabbi David Wichefsky in the Moses family’s backyard, c. 1910, Credit: Ontario Jewish Archives

Photo Caption: Rabbi David Wichefsky, Credit: Lloyd Donald Friedman

Bio Information:
The Rav, born in Dubrovna, Belarus a small town along the Dnieper River in 1857, studied in the famed Volozhiner Yeshiva. In 1892, after moving to the United States he settled in New Bern, North Carolina where he rabbinated for two years. He then relocated to Greater Sudbury in Canada. It was under the guise that he was going to a growing Jewish community that he made the move. Upon his arrival it was apparent that the community size was greatly embellished. Nevertheless he stayed. After retiring he to be with his children.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Gedalia Felder, Credit: Esther Scheer

Photo Caption: Rav Greenwald is standing the 4th from the right, Credit: MCA

Bio Information:
The Rav’s grandfather was the Arugas Habosem, his father, Rav Avroham Yosef was his oldest son.

Rav, Congregation Beth Ora, Saint Laurent, Montreal d. 15 Adar, 1972 (5732) Shushan Purim Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Kehilath Israel Cemetry Address Needed Dollard-des-Ormeaux (Montreal), Canada Photo Credit: Lyon Schwartzben, Montreal, Canada

Rav in Toronto, Canada d. 2 Elul, 1945 (5705) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Roselawn Avenue Cemetery 619 Roselawn Avenue Toronto ON, Canada (To the left of the Krakover Toronto Rebbe’s ohel)

Photo Caption: Rav Pinchos Hirschsprung, Credit: Cabadtalk
 
Photo Caption: Rav Yehuda Meir Shapiro, Lubliner Rav and Rosh Yeshia, Chachmei Lublin  , d. 1933

Photo Caption: Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin as it stood when it first opened  in 1930, Credit: Kevarim.com


Photo Caption: Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin as it stands today (Winter, 2011), Credit: Kevarim.com

Bio Information: 
Rav Hirschsprung, a student of Rav Meir Shapiro served as the Chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1969 until his passing. The Lubliner once said that already as a youth he knew 2,200 talmudic folios by heart. The Rav also shared a very close relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe and served as one of the Rosh Yeshivas at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim of Montreal.

Photo Credit: Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta

Credit: Cantor Neil Schwartz, Congregation Agudath Achim

Source: Rabbinical Alumni Chavrusa, June, 1961

Source: Rabbinical Alumni Chavrusa, June, 1961

Photo Caption: Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Cohen. Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Cohen at a meeting with other rabbonim in Montreal. Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: (L-R): Journalist Mordecai Ginzburg, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Cohen, Reuben Brainin, c.1938, Source: Jewish Public Library

Photo Caption: Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kellman, Credit: Leib Kellman

Photo Caption:  Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Colton, Credit: Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives

Bio Information:
Rabbi Yaakob Aryeh Colton was the primary mohel (ritual circumciser) for Montreal and the surrounding area c. 1918 – 1945

Chief Rabbi, Montreal, Canada d. 28 Iyar, 1969 (5729) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Kehal Israel Cemetery Dollard Des Ormeaux (just outside of Montreal) Location: Needed

Photo Caption: Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Photo Caption: Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart, Credit: Ontario Jewish Archives

Photo Caption: Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart, Credit: Ontario Jewish Archives

Source: Jewish Forwards 

Photo Caption: Rav Kahanovitch, Credit: J. Kahanovitch

Credit: Needed 

Photo Caption: Rav Yitzchok Hendel, Credit: crownheights.info

Bio Information:
Rav Hendel was born in 1916 in the town of Komarów-Osada, Poland. He joined the Chabad movement while studying in Warsaw. During World War Two, Rabbi Hendel and a number of rabbinical students escaped to Shanghai. After the war, Rabbi Hendel moved to Montreal.
The Rav served as the chief rabbi for Montreal’s Chabad community. His appointment as chief rabbi began soon after his marriage in 1944.  Upon the request of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson Rav Hendel helped establish the Chabad community in Montreal. Aside from leading the Chabad community in Montreal, Rabbi Hendel additionally served as the Av Beis Din (head of the rabbinical court) for Montreal’s Orthodox Jewish community.
Source: wikipedi

Rav, Mior Hagola, Montreal, Canada d. 13 Nissan, 1993 (5753) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery Address Needed Montreal, Quebec, Canada