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Photo Caption: Rav Avroham Betzalel Epstein, Credit: Ryan Shell

Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Photo Caption: The Rav’s brther-in-law, Rev Avroham Chaim Goodman d. 1931. He was married to the Rav’s sister Chaya Mushe and served as a shochet in Butler, PA. Credit: Ryan Shell

Bio Information:
Once in Cincinnati (1929), Rav Epstein  served at Congregation Bnai Yaakov which then merged with Agudas Israel (Golf Manor) in 1933. The Rav ran a Kashrus agencies which operated independently from Rav Eliezer Silver’s Va’ad Hoier.

Credit: N/N

Prior to Cincinnati, Rabbi Lesser rabbinated in Chicago. He was elected founding president of the Agudath HaRabanim (The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada) at its commencement in1902.

Originated from Kovlo, Russia, Rav Raphaelson immigrated to the United State in 1890 and served in the following cities… Memphis, Tennessee – 1893, Toledo, Ohio – 1896-1900, Cincinnati, Ohio – 1902-1903, Denver, Colorado – 1905, Columbus, Ohio – 1908-1910, Detroit, Michigan 1915, and Newport, Kentucky 1920.

Photo Caption: Rav Eliezer Silver and Kopyczyncer Rebbe in conversation in Upstate New York, Photo Credit: Yitz Twersky, Kew Garden Hills, NY

Photo Caption: Rav Eliezer Silver, Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: (L to R) Rav Eliezer Silver, Unknown, Rebbe Mordechai Shlomo Friedman, Boyaner Rebbe d. 1971, Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: Rav Eliezer Silver, Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: Rav Eliezer Silver, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Rav Silver with the  Lubavitcher Rebbe, Credit: From the Collection of Moshe Gumbo

Credit: Kneseth Israel Congregation Collection

Hamodia Magazine (2012) article:
Rav Eliezer Silver Hamodia

Photo Caption:Rabbi Schachne Isaacs Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Photo Caption: Rabbi Schachne Isaacs, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives
Bio Information: 
Rav Isaacs founded Congregation Bet Tefillah in 1866, a synagogue which was commonly known as Reb Shachne’s Shul.

Bio Information:
After arriving on these shores in 1887 from Russia, Rav Levinson served as the founding rabbi of  both at United Hebrew Congregation in Newport and later in Temple Israel in Covington, Kentucky. Both had relatively small Jewish communities.

Photo Caption: United Hebrew Congregation, Newport, Kentucky  c. 1905, Credit: American Jewish Archives

Photo Caption: Temple Israel’s first building (Covington, Kentucky), Credit: American Jewish Archives 

Rav Illowi was ordained by Rav Moshe Schreiber, the Chasam Sofer and was among the first Rabbanim to serve in the United States. From the time of his arrival on these shores in 1853 until his passing, the Rav spent his time fighting to influence and uphold true Torah values in North America. The Rav is famous for his halachic ruling on the kashrus of Muscovy duck.

Photo Caption: Title page Leket Yosef, authored by Rav Levin, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Photo Caption: Rav Levin, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Bio Information:
Rav Levin was a founding member of the  Agudath Harabonim and rabbinated at some point in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania as well as Jersey City, New Jersey.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Yosef Zelig Zeligs, Credit: Joe Zeligs
Note: The original family name was Shostokovsky.