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Rav, Beth Medrash HaGadol Vtomchei Torah, Bronx, NY d. 18 Iyar, 1927 (5687) Lag BaOmer Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Old Mount Carmel Cemetery 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale, NY 11385 (Section: 1, Block: E, Map/Gate: 57, Line: 13 along the road)

Moreh Dasrah of Bais Medrash HaGadol of Brownsville d. 27 Av, 1929 (5689) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Carmel Cemetery Section One 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale NY 11385 (Section: 1, Block: E, Map: 7, Line: 5, Grave: 20)

Moreh Dasrah, Bais Medrash HaGadol of Brownsville d. 10 Elul, 1958 (5718) Rav Koplowitz worked endlessly to help improve the standards of kashrus (ritual slaughter) in the United States. Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Carmel Cemetery Section One 83-45 Cypress Hills […]

Rav, New York City d. 30 Cheshvan, 1931 (5692) Rosh Chodesh Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Old Mount Carmel Cemetery 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale, NY 11385 T: (718) 366-5900 Location: Section: 1, Block: D, Map: 25, Line: 8, Grave: 10, Society: […]

Rav, New York City d. 7 Cheshvan, 1926 (5687) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Old Mount Carmel Cemetery 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale, NY 11385 T: (718) 366-5900 Location:  Needed Click photo to enlarge, a new window will open, click that one […]

Photo Caption: Rabbi Beinush Zalkind Rabiner, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History

Bio Information:
Rav Rabiner a founding member of the Agudath HaRabonim was a prominent member of Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Joseph’s Bais Din (Rabbinical Court).

Photo Caption: Picture and short bio of Rav Dov Revel, Credit: Yeshiva University

Photo Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

 Credit: Yeshiva University

Bio Information:
A number of book have been published on the life and times of the Rav Dov Revel since his passing.

Photo Caption: Rav Dovid Radinsky, Credit: Sam Herzberg


Photo Credit:  Eisenstadt, Ben-Zion

Photo Credit: The Jewish Morning Journal, March 10, 1917

Photo Credit: The Jewish Morning Journal, March 15, 1917,

Bio Information:
Rav Radinsky was among the leading rabbonim in Brownsville and a  founding member of the Agudath HaRabonim. Prior to his arrival in New York, Rav Radinsky served in St. Louis and at some point in San Francisco, California.

Rav, New York City d. 26 Cheshvan, 1927 (5688) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Old Mount Carmel Cemetery Section 4 – Newly Acquired Hungarian Cemetery 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale, NY 11385 (718) 366-5900 Location: Request location map from cemetery office across […]

Menahel of Yeshivas Toras Emes 7 Kislev, 1940 Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: New Mount Carmel Cemetery 66-02 Cooper Avenue Glendale NY 11385 (Section: 2, Block: 9, Map: 4, along Cooper Avenue, in the Anshe Sfard of Boro Park section)

Photo Caption: Rabbi Menachem Mendel (Aryeh) Leib Lokshin

Bio Information:
There were five Chabad shuls in New York City at that time, all were under the auspices of Rav Lokshin. Prior to his arrival on these shores, the Rav served as Cheif Rabbi, Krivoy Rog (Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine

Photo Caption: Rabbi Michael Shalom Winkler, Credit: Needed

Rav Michael Shalom Winkler, a talmid (student) of Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld was born in the old Yishuv of Jerusalem. In 1932, Rav Winkler traveled to New York to raise the necessary funds to establish a yeshiva in Denmark. Unfortunately, he did not succeed with the mission. Unable to collect enough money for the return trip to Denmark, Rav Winkler stayed in New York.

Photo Credit: The Jewish Morning Journal, December 29, 1914

Photo Caption: Safer Derech Avrohom a eulogy for Rabbi Moshe Eliezer Gavrin
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Bio Information for: Rabbi Moshe Eliezer Gavrin

Photo Caption: Rav Moshe Zevulun Margolies, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History

Photo Caption: Picture and short bio of Rav Moshe Zevulun Margolies, Credit: Yeshiva University 

Photo Caption: Rav Moshe Zevulun Margolies speaking at Madison Square Garden, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Photo Caption: Rav Moshe Zevulun Margolies’s official seal as Chief Rabbi of Boston, Massachusetts, Credit:  Institute For Judaic Culture and History

Credit: Yeshiva University

Photo Caption: Rabbi Joseph Lookstein (L) grandson-in-law of Rav Margolies and founder of the RAMAZ school in New York City, Credit:  Institute For Judaic Culture and History

Bio Information:
A number of books and articles have been penned on the life and times of Rav Moshe Zevulun Margolies often referred to by the acronym RAMAZ.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Nechemiah Mossesohn’s father, Rav Moshe Daina, Chief Rabbi of Odessa d.1904, Credit: J.D. Eisenstein 

Photo Caption: State Senator Lazarus Joseph (L) January 10, 1946 soon after being elected as New York City Comptroller looking on.  State Senator Joseph, a  grandson of Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Joseph remained a Shomer Shabbos Jew even as a high ranking politician. As New  York City Comptroller he campaigned for the Kosher Meat Laws.  Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History

Photo Caption: Kever of  State Senator Lazarus Joseph at the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, Credit:Institute For Judaic Culture and History

Photo Caption: kever of Henrietta Joseph, wife of State Senator Lazarus Joseph at the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, Credit: Shmuel Botchy Amsel 

Photo Caption: Kever of Caption Jacob Joseph, great grandson of Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Joseph.  Captain Joseph of the United States Marine Corps was killed in action at the Battle of Guadalcanal on October 22, 1942 when is jet was shot down over the Pacific.  Then New York City Mayor William O’Dwyer memorialized Captain Joseph in City Hall and later named a playground  on the Lower East Side in his honor. Interment was at the New Mount Carmel cemetery in Queens alongside his father. Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History

Photo Caption: kever of Ethyl Joseph, daughter of State Senator Lazarus Joseph at the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, Credit: Shmuel Botchy Amsel 

Bio Information:
Only son of Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Joseph.

Chief Rabbi of Homel (Gomel), Belorussia d. 29 Cheshvan, 1950 Full bio to be posted. Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Old Mount Carmel Cemetery 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale NY 11385 (Section: 1, Block: E, Map: 39, Line: 12, Grave: 7, Society: […]

Rav, Bronx, NY d. 13 Teves, 1987 (5647) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Old Mount Carmel Cemetery 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale NY 11385 (Section: 1, Block: E, Map: 39, Line: 12, Grave: 7, Society: HOMLER BROTHERS OLD)

Rav, New York City d. 21 Teves, 1945 (4705) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Old Mount Carmel Cemetery 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale, NY 11385 T: (718) 366-5900 Location: Section: 2, Block: 1, Map: 12, Line: 9, Grave: 4, Society: Gemilath Chesed […]

Rav, New York City d. 5 Elul, 1938 (5698) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Old Mount Carmel Cemetery 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale, NY 11385 T: (718) 366-5900 Location: Section: 2, Block: 7, Map: 11, Line: 5, Grave: 10, Click photo to […]

Rav in New York City d. 16 Sivan, 1927 (5687) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: New Mount Carmel Cemetery 66-02 Cooper Avenue Glendale NY 11385 (Section: 2, Block: 5, Line: 5, Grave: 23, Society: Glory of Israel) Tombstone fell over.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Samuel  Hillel Isaacs 
Bio Information:
Isaacs Shmuel Hillel Bio From His Book

Moreh Dasrah Beth Medrash HaGadol Vtomchei Torah, Bronx, NY d. 15 Sivan, 1917 Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Old Mount Carmel Cemetery 83-45 Cypress Hills Street Glendale, NY 11385 (Section: 1, Block: E, Map/Gate: 57, Line: 14 along the road)

Rav, Harlem, New York City d. 27 Elul, 1948 (5708) The Rav was among the over 400 Rabbanim and Admorim who on Erev Yom Kippur, 1943 marched on Washington, DC demanding that the Roosevelt administration help save the Jews of Europe. Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for […]

Photo Caption: The kever of Rav Plesset’s mother Rebbetzin Bluma, Credit: Asher Lowy, Brooklyn, NY 

Photo Credit: The Jewish Morning Journal, January 1912

Photo Caption: Rabbi Shmuel Moshe Joseph, Credit: Ira Berman, North Wales, Pennsylvania  

Bio Information:
Brother of Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Joseph. A seconds brother Chaim (see picture below) is buried at Union Field alongside the Chief Rabbi.  The oldest brother, Rabbi Shmuel Moshe  remained in Kovno, Lithuania where he is buried.

Bio Information: 
Rav Yekusiel Raphael Hurwitz was born and raised in Novardok and studied in the Volozhin Yeshiva, Etz Chaim, until it closed in 1892. The Rav was a cousin and close friend of Rav Shlomo Polachek better known as the Maitcheteter (Maichater) Illui.
Source: Reuben Rudman

Photo Caption: Beth Medrash Hagodol V’Tomchai Torah in the Bronx as it stands today at 860 Forest Avenue. Credit: Google