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Photo Caption:  Rabbi Aaron Chaim Sinai,  Credit: Minneapolis Journal, September, 10, 1903

Bio Information: 
Rabbi Sinai was born in 1841 and came to the United States in 1858, where he was among the prominent Orthodox Rabbis of his time. For ten years he served as rabbi in Syracuse, NY before moving to  Congregation Knesses Yisroel in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1883.

Rav in Minneapolis, Minnesota d. 2 Av, 1960 (5720) The Rav was the son-in-law of Rav Yitzchok Blazer, more commonly known as Reb Itzele Peterburger. Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Minneapolis Jewish Cemetery 7032 Penn Ave. South Richfield, MN 55423 Photo Credit: […]

Photo Caption: Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Silber, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Silber, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History

Chief Rabbi of Minneapolis, Minnesota d. 11 Tammuz, 1984 (5744) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Minneapolis Jewish Cemetery 7032 Penn Ave. South Richfield, MN 55423 Photo Credit: Michael Morris

Photo Caption: Group photo at Adas Israel Congregation, Duluth, Minnesota, Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: Rabbi Yosef Dov Hurvitz and his wife, Rebbetzin Rae Hurvitz, St. Paul, Minnesota, Credit: (University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives)
Description: Portrait photograph of Rabbi Joseph Hurvitz and his wife, Rebbetzin Rae Hurvitz. Known in his St. Paul Lowertown community as “Der Roiter Rov” (the Red Rabbi), Rabbi Hurvitz lead the Sons of Jacob and Adath Yeshurun congregations from the 1910s through the 1950s. Though he was a traditionalist, he consciously used both English and Yiddish in worship and congregational gatherings to help validate his immigrant congregants sense that both languages and the cultures they represented were of equal importance in their new home.