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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

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Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchok Liebb

שמואל יצחק ב"ר זבולן

Rav, Beth Medrash Hagadol of Baltimore

Date of Death: Wed. December 25, 1940 - Kislev 25 5701
Chanukah

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.

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Rabbi Yisroel Tzvi Kerein

ישראל צבי ב"ר טוביה הלוי

Rav, Baltimore, MD

Date of Death: Sat. July 9, 1932 - Sivan 5 5692

Source: The Jewish Times of Baltimore

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Rabbi Meir Pearlson

מאיר ב"ר ישראל

Rav Baltimore, MD

Date of Death: Sat. April 30, 1949 - Iyar 1 5709
Rosh Chodesh

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Rabbi Naftali Neuberger

נפתלי ב"ר מאיר הלוי

President, Ner Israel Rabbinical College, Baltimore, MD

Date of Death: Fri. October 21, 2005 - Tishrei 18 5766
Chol Hamoed

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Rabbi Noach Kahn

נח ב"ר ישעיהו יהודה הכהן

Rav, Anshe Emunah, Baltimore, MD

Date of Death: Thu. October 13, 1938 - Tishrei 18 5699

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Rabbi Chaim Braverman

חיים ב"ר שמואל

Rav, Congregation Etz Chaim of Richmond, Virginia

Date of Death: Tue. December 15, 1942 - Teves 7 5703

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Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Eisenberg

אפרים זלמן ב"ר חיים הלוי

R"M, Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, Baltimore, MD

Date of Death: Mon. May 27, 2002 - Sivan 16 5762

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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taragin

מנחם מענדל ב"ר אשר

Rav, Baltimore, MD

Date of Death: Thu. June 28, 1973 - Sivan 28 5733

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

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Rabbi Reuvain Rivkin

ראובן ב"ר צבי

Rav, Aitz Chaim Anshei Amunah Eden Street Shul, Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Death: Tue. January 6, 1953 - Teves 19 5713

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

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Rabbi Aaron Aryeh Leib Levin

אהרן ארי לייב ב"ר חיים יהודא

Rav, Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Death: Sat. December 12, 1964 - Teves 14 5725

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Rabbi Abba Chaim Levinsohn

אבא חיים ב"ר יצחק אייזיק

Chief Rabbi, Baltimore, MD

Date of Death: Sat. June 8, 1912 - Sivan 23 5672

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

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Rabbi Yekusiel Zalmen Kruger

יקותיאל זלמן ב"ר יוסף מרדכי

Rav, Congregation Ohel Yaakov, Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Death: Sat. November 8, 1919 - Cheshvan 15 5680

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Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Rabinowitz

משה יהודה ב"ר שמעון

Rav, Ohel Yaakov Congregation of Baltimore

Date of Death: Thu. April 4, 1940 - Adar I 25 5700

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Rabbi Yitzchok Ben Tzion Isaacson

יצחק בן ציון ב"ר שמעון

Beth Medrash Hagadol, Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Death: Tue. August 4, 1931 - Av 21 5691

Credit: IFJCAH

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Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Margolis Levin

צבי ב"ר חיים יהודא

Rav, Charleston, South Carolina

Date of Death: Mon. December 5, 1887 - Kislen 20 5648

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.

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Rabbi Yechiel Dov Shoham

יחיאל דוב ב"ר שמואל יוסף

Rav, Mishcan Yisroel, Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Death: Sun. September 10, 1978 - Elul 8 5738

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Rabbi Yosef Yaakov Marcus

יוסף יעקב ב"ר זיסקינד

Rav, Mishcan Yisroel, Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Death: Thu. July 28, 1932 - 24 Tammuz 5692

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Rabbi Avroham Nachman Shwartz

אברהם נחמן ב"ר חיים

Rosh Av Bais Din of Baltimore, MD

Date of Death: Thu. February 4, 1937 - Shevat 23 5697

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

Rabbi Hillel Mihaly

הלל ב"ר אריה

Rav, Kehal Tiferes Yisroel – Anshie Sefard, Baltimore

Date of Death: Fri. April 19, 1957 - Nissan 18 5717
Chol Hamoed Pesach

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

Photo Caption: Rabbi Hillel Mihaly, Credit: Yitz Twersky, KGH

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Rabbi Yosef Schechter

יוסף ב"ר אליעזר זאב

Rav, Norfolk, Virginia

Date of Death: Fri. December 21, 2007 - Teves 12 5768

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.

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Rabbi Michael Eliezer Forshlager

מיכאל אליעזר ב"ר אברהם משה הכהן

Gaon of Baltimore

Date of Death: Tue. October 28, 1958 - Cheshvan 15 5719

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Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Kulefsky

יעקב משה ב"ר רפאל ניסן שלמה

Rosh Yeshiva, Ner Yisroel, Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Death: Thu. November 30, 2000 - Kislev 3 5761

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

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Rabbi Raphael Asher Josephson

Rav, Congregation Adas Jeshurin, Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Death: Fri. June 2, 1905 - Iyar 28 5665

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Rabbi Dovid Kronglas

דוד ב"ר עזרא

Mashgiach, Yeshivas Ner Israel Baltimore

Date of Death: Sat. December 16, 1972 - Teves 11 5733

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

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Rabbi Shabsi Sheftal Kramer

שבתי שעפטיל ב"ר יהודה ליב

Mashgiach . Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary, New Haven, CT

Date of Death: Wed. January 21, 1942 - Shevat 3 5703

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.

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