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Rav, Brownsville, Brooklyn d. 12 Elul, 1924 (5684) Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Lebanon Cemetery 7800 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 Location: Block: F, Section: 6, along the main path near Herzel Avenue Photo Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY

Rav, New York City d. 19 Kislev, 1943 (7504) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Lebanon Cemetery 7800 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 (Location: Block: A, Section: 1, Line: 12, Grave: 25, Society: Sokola)

Photo Credit:  Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Rav, New York City d. 13 Kislev, 1931 (5692) Anyone with information is asked to send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Lebanon Cemetery 7800 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 Location: Block: A, Section: 4, Society: Ohab Zedek, along Machpela Avenue Photo Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY

Rav, New York City d. 11 Elul, 1932 (5692) Rav Kaftal came to the United States in 1909 from Mlawa, Poland. Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Lebanon Cemetery 7800 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 Location: Block: Park Block, PAth: 16, along […]

Rav, Chevra Sefard Anshei Poland d. 13 Nissan, 1939 (5699) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Lebanon Cemetery 7800 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 Location: Block: Park Block, Path:11-19, Gate: 16, Row 7, Grave 1, off Bethel Avenue Click photo to enlarge, […]

Photo Caption: The Rav Levitan passed away on the boat en-route to New York harbor and was buried here, Source: The Jewish Morning Journal, September, 27, 1921

Photo Caption: Rabbi Chaim Shaul Levitan, Credit: Asher Lowy, Brooklyn, NY 

Photo Caption: Rav Chaim Yissachar Gorodinsky, Credit: Julie Warshawsky and David Yerushalmi

Photo Caption: The Rav’s grandfather was Rav Yitzchok Yaakov Reines (d. 1915), founder of Yeshiva Torah Vodath of Lida, Poland

Rav Besdansky, a member of the Agudath Harabonim rabbinated at  Congregation Chevra Tehillim in East New York.

Rav, New York City d. 22 Kislev, 1986 (5747) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Lebanon Cemetery 7800 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 Location: Block: A, Section: 2, Line: 9, Grave: 6, Society: Spinoza Click photo to enlarge , a new window […]

Photo Credit: Rabbi Kalman Chaim Mathews, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Delegation of rabbonim to Washington, 1925, Credit: Montana Historical Society

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Bio information:
Rav Menachem Yehuda Guzik, the Makover Rav was a descendant of the Plotzker Gaon, Rav Aryeh Leib Tzintz, he served as the Chief Rabbi Poughkeepsie and later in the Henry Street Shul on the Lower East Side. In 1925, Rav Guzik was among the delegation of rabbonim which included Rav Avroham Aaron Yudelovitch and Rav Gavriel Zev Margolis to visit President Calvin Coolidge in Washington, DC.

Credit: Yeshiva University 

Rav, Yeshivas Rabanu HaGaon Eliyahu MiVilna d. 22 Kislev, 1929 (5690) Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Lebanon Cemetery 7800 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 Location: Block: R, Section: 27, corner of Central and Cypress Avenue in the far left corner […]

Photo Caption: Rav Shlomo Dov Shapiro



Photo Caption: Ohel of Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz, Shepetivka, Ukraine. It is also noted that his son, Rebbe Yehuda Meir (d. 29 Nissan, 5589 – May 2, 1829) was buried in the nearby cemetery, Credit: IFJCAH

Bio Information:
Between East Flatbush and later in Kew Gardens Hills, The Rav, a direct descendant of Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz (d. 1790) served for close to 70 years in New York.

Although a Rav in Minsk, Russia on these shores Rav Rubin worked as a shochet (kosher ritual slaughterer). He was born c. 1856, and arrived here in 1923.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Solomon Rubin, Credit: Richard Rubin

Photo Caption: Rabbi Solomon Rubin, in a kosher butcher shop in Stamford, CT c.1925, Credit: Richard Rubin

Photo Caption: Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Yehuda Romanov, Credit: Needed

Credit: THE JEWISH COMMUNAL REGISTER

Credit: MCA

Bio Information:
Rav Tikin who originally came from Jerusalem lived in the Bronx.  Among his known locations were 763 Beck Street and 800 Fox Street, both are located in the Bronx.

President, Agudath HaRabonim, New York City d. 13 Shevat 1956 (5716) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Lebanon Cemetery 7800 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 Location: Block: Park Block, Section: 39, along Bethel Avenue on the left side Photo Credit: Shmuel Amsel, […]

Moreh Dasrah, Chevra Bnai Yaakov (Chechanowza) d. 26 Iyar, 1930 (5690) Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details. Directions to kever: Mount Lebanon Cemetery 7800 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 Location: Block: Park Block, Section: 32, along Bethel Avenue right side near the rare fence Photo Credit: […]

Photo Caption: Rabbi Yitzchok Leib Kadushin, Credit: Needed


Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Bio Information:
To avoid conscription into the Russian Army, Isaac Louis Schnitman was “adopted” by the Kadushin family, who had lost a son named Jacob Kadushin. Isaac changed his name to Jacob Kadushin, while his siblings retained the name Schnitman. Jacob arrived in Castle Garden Immigration Center (Castle Clinton National Monument)  New York City in 1883, and was followed by his wife and children three years later. While in New York, Rabbi Kadushin translated the entire Shulchan Aruch into English and published it in 1915 as the “Jewish Code of Jurisprudence.” It went through at least 2 editions.
Source: Needed

Photo Caption: Rav Yitzchok Sodden, Credit: AF

Source: The Jewish Morning Journal, March 6, 1919

Photo Caption: Rav Yitzchok Sodden at a Knesseth HaRabonim meeting, Source: Brooklyn Eagle, 1932

Photo Caption: The Rav’s stamp, Credit: IFJCAH

Bio Information:
The Rav who authored a number of seforim (books) rabbinated for a number of years in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Photo Caption: Rebbe Menachem Mendel Landau, Biala Rebbe, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Photo Caption: Letterhead of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Landau, Biala Rebbe, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Bio Information:
The Rebbe, a direct descendant of Rebbe Berish of Biala authored  Shemesh Umugain on Torah. The book was published posthumously by his son, the late Biala Rebbe of Tell Aviv, Israel.