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Photo Caption: Rav Abba Chaim Levinsohn, Credit: B’nai Israel, The Downtown Synagogue

Photo Credit: IFJHAC

Photo Credit: Lauren R. Silberman

Bio Information:
Rav Schaffer studied in the Berlin Rabbiner Seminar (Rabbinical Seminary), headed by the famous Rav Azriel Hildesheimer. The Rav was ordained by Rav Hildesheimer, Rav Avroham Diamant of Yurburg, Rav Zev Lehrman of Erzvilok, the Kovno Rov, Rav Yitzchok Elchonon Spector and Rav Alexander Moshe Lapidus (Lapidoth) of Rossieny (a friend of Rav Yisroel Salanter).

The Rav arrived in New York in 1892 and was soon installed as the first Moreh Dasrah of Shearith Israel, Baltimore, Maryland. In 1928, after having served for thirty-five years Rav Schaffer retired to the position of rabbi emeritus. He was to remain responsible for the congregation’s kashrus supervision until the appointment of his successor. However, at the time of Rav’s passing, no successor had been appointed. It was not until four years later, in December 1936, that Rav Shimon Schwab arrived from Europe to fill the vacancy left by Rav Schaffer.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Avroham Nachman Shwartz, Credit: Jewish Museum of Maryland 

Photo Credit: From the Virtual Judaica reference collection library 

Rav Rice was the fist known ordained Rav to serve as Moreh Dasrah of a congregation in this country. Rav Rice was a talmid (student) of Rav Avroham Bing the Chief Rabbi of Wurzburg and subsequently of Rav Wolf Hamburger of Fuerth. As the first ordained Rav in the United States, Rav Rice decided the halachic Hebrew spelling for many of the cities across the country.

Source:  Baltimore Evening Sun, 1962

Photo Caption: Rav Dovid Kornglass,  Mashgiach, Yeshivas Ner Israel Baltimore, Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: Rabbi Hillel and Yehudis Mihaly, Credit: Reb Asher Michaeli, Brooklyn, NY  

Photo Caption: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taragin, Credit: Jewish Museum of Maryland 

Photo Caption: Rav Reuvain Rivkin, passport picture, c.1905, Credit: Bruce Rivkin

Photo Caption: Rav Reuvain Rivkin, c.1920, Credit: Bruce Rivken

Photo Caption: Rabbi Reuvain Rivkin c.1930, Credit: Bruce Rivkin

Photo Caption: Rabbi Reuvain Rivkin, c.1930, Credit: Bruce Rivkin

The Rav Kramer  married the daughter of great philanthropist Reb Shraga Frank of Kovno, Lithuania. Reb Shraga had four famous son-in-lawas, the other three were Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein of Slobodka and later Chevron, Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer of Slutsk, Rav Baruch Hurwitz of Alexot, Lithuania and later Rosh Yeshivah in Slobodka. The Rav’s daughter married Rav Yaakov Yitzchok Halevi Ruderman, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Yisroel, Baltimore.

Photo Caption: Rav Yaakov Weinberger, c. 1965 at Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Toronto, Credit: Courtesy of the Ottawa Jewish Archives

Photo Caption: Rav Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg, Credit: BALTIMORE JEWISH LIFE

Photo Caption: Rav Shimshon Pinkus, Chief Rabbi, Ofakim, Israel, d. 2001, nephew of Rav Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg, Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchok Liebb, Credit: Needed

Photo Credit: Rav Shlomo Elyashiv (d. 1926), Baal HaLeshem, Credit: N/N
Nate: The Leshem was Rav Leibbb’s uncle.

Photo Caption: Rav Hirsch Tzvi Margolis Levine c. 1852, Credit: Carol Kaminsky

Photo Caption: A page from Rav Hirsch Tzvi Margolis Levine’s personal notebook, Credit: Carol Kaminsky

Photo Caption: Harav Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ha-Levi Heller (Tosefos Yom Tov), Credit: N/N

Bio Information:
Rav Margolis a descendant of Rav Yom Tov Lipman Heller (d. 1654) changed his name to the more American sounding Levine upon his arrival to Charleston, South Carolina. After the Civil War, he relocated to Baltimore, Maryland.

Photo Caption: Rav Yaakov Moshe Kulefsky, Rosh Yeshiva, Ner Yisroel  Baltimore, Credit: Ari Koretzky

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Source: The Jewish Times of Baltimore 

Credit: IFJCAH

Rav Schecter was closely involved with the Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Baltimor since the 1940’s and served as a Rabbi in Norfolk, VA and New Orleans, LA.