Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Swift
יצחק יהודה ב"ר אברהם דוב
Rav, Congregation Ahavath Torah, Englewood, New JerseyDate of Death:
Fri. May 24, 1991 -
Sivan 11 5751
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Directions to Kever: Passaic Junction Cemeteries is owned and managed by the Jewish Federation of North Jersey Cemetery Association. Among the other societies under their management are Congregation Emanuel Cemetery, Bnai Sholom Organization, Temple Emanuel of North Jersey, Workmen’s Circle Branch #121, Workmen’s Circle Branch #970, and Yanover Lodge. Location: at the end of Deery Avenue
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Photo Caption: Rabbi Swift along with Ralph Pressner, New Orleans, September 26, 1962, Credit: IFJCAH
Credit: David Weider of Williamsburg
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I called Cong. Ahavath Torah, where he served as Rabbi. He is buried in Passaic Jewish Junction, Saddle Brook NJ. According to this map http://x.liebowitzes.com/genealogy/showmap.php?cemeteryID=4
they have 2 sections.
It says on this (linked) page and also on another site, that PJJC is “not a REAL cemetery but an area with several society plots”. Davis how did you find this place?
Good detective work, it’s a good chance that Rav Chapler is in the same cemetery.
Asher:
Good work!!!!
I also found this online:
Jewish Federation of North Jersey Cemetery Association
P.O. Box 436, Totowa, NJ 07511
973-492-2969
Owns and manages twelve (I only included the Dewey Avenue sections) small one congregation / one landsmanshaft cemeteries in north Jersey. Cemeteries are as follows:
Bnai Sholom Organization, Dewey Avenue, Saddle Brook, NJ
Temple Emanuel of North Jersey, Dewey Avenue, Saddle Brook, NJ
Workmen’s Circle Branch #121, Dewey Avenue, Saddle Brook, NJ
Workmen’s Circle Branch #970, Dewey Avenue, Saddle Brook, NJ
Yanover Lodge, Dewey Avenue, Saddle Brook, NJ
Baruch, thank you, yes, it’s very likely that Rabbi Chapler is buried close by, as according to link below, there was a Mendel Chapler living in Passaic, NJ as of 1909.
http://kevarim.vohost.us/rabbi-yaakov-mendel-chapler/comment-page-1/#comment-6815
Is Rabbi Swift related to the Dayan Moshe Swift?
Who is Dayan Moshe Swift?
I believe he was a London dayan.
According to the president of Ahavas Torah, he had relatives in Australia and England.
Rabbi Isaac Swift was the younger brother of Dayan Moshe Swift
Aubrey is correct. There were actually three Swift brothers (Harris, Moshe, and Isaac), each of whom served as rabbi at major London congregations before moving elsewhere.
Moshe, whose hesped for the Ponevezher Rav was published by Artscroll and reproduced many times thereafter, is mentioned several times in the Igros Moshe of Rav Moshe Feinstein. Some of his Torah writings are published in a sefer zikaron; his drashos are published in a two-volume set titled Moreshet Moshe (Feldheim 1989). And his hesped of the Ponevezher Rav was published by Artscroll and reproduced many times thereafter.
Harry’s drashos are published in Because I Believe (Bloch, 1955, with a haskama from Rav I. Herzog.)
Isaac published a set of drashas on Sefer Shemos in the 1965 RCA Manual and many other Torah writings in Jewish Life and other journals. B’ezras Hashem other chiddushei Torah will soon be published.
R. Isaac Swift was also Rabbi at First Cong. Anshe Sfard in Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY, at one time.
I was in the choir, as a young boy, in Brondesbury Shul in London under Rabbi Moishe Swift. Some years later, in Johannesburg, South Africa he was the Rabbi at Berea Shul where he conducted my wedding on 21 December 1952. I am now a Board member at Holland Road Shul in Hove (Brighton), UK, where there is a plaque showing that he laid the foundation stone for an extension to that Shul.
Sonny
who was the rov of Brondesbury Shul when you were there as a choir boy
Kind regards
To M. Kennedy.
To the best of my memory, Moishe Swift was the Rabbi. I am now 85 years old so so the memory is not so good. But i am pretty sure it WAS Moishe Swift.
Regards.
Sonny
thanks for getting back to how far is Brondesbury from wilsden
M. Kennedy.
When my family were living there, Brondesbury Shul was in the NW suburb of London called Willesden. Any reason for your question?
Regards,
Sonny
M Kennedy.
Must be a mix-up somewhere. I never knew Rabbi Yitzhok Yehuda Swift. I knew only Rabbi
Maurice (Moishe) Swift. Shabbat Shalom.
Regards, Sonny Katz
Sonny
Thanks
do you remember any other rabbis in the area
ספר הזכרון לר’ משה סוויפט ז”ל
http://www.otzar.org/wotzar/book.aspx?108642
The Three Rabonim Swift were my Great Uncles.. Brothers of my Grandmother Sarah..
Their Father (my Great Grandfather) was Beryl Swift from Liverpool..
Just discovered these comments about the Swift brothers z”l .
Does anyone recall tle late Myer (Marks) and Millie Freedman who were my mothers. parents and who lived on Neasden and helped establisg Neasden shul – now closed?
My mother was Esther and her brother was Arnold/Aharon.They were both niftar in 1978.
Stewart Myers
I found the following 3 photos of Rabbi Swift from a collection of old Baltimore Sun photos:
http://www.newspaperphotographs.com/Photo-Rabbi-Isaac-Swift-BNN-465-BS/dp/B00B0EFZIM
http://www.newspaperphotographs.com/Photo-Rabbi-Isaac-Swift-BNN-466-BS/dp/B00B0EG04U
http://www.newspaperphotographs.com/Photo-Rabbi-Isaac-Swift-BNN-467-BS/dp/B00B0EG3JM
just found this amazing story in canadian jewish news feb 5 1960 about rabbi issac swift
Brooklyn Rabbi Helps Canadian
New York (CJN) —On the plea of a Brooklyn rabbi, a 28-year-old defendant won a dismissal of a burglary indictment in Kings County Court.
Jenoe Leitner of Montreal, Que., wept when Judge Hyman Barshay announced the dismissal, The judge said he had taken the action after reading a probation report disclosing that the defendant had been in a Nazi, concentration camp during World War II where his parents and five brothers were executed.
Leitner had been accused of burglarizing the home of Rabbi Isaac L .Swift at 1463 Forty-eighth Street, Brooklyn, on July 26, 1958. The rabbi wrote a letter urging that the man be permitted to rehabilitate himself.
Assistant District Attorney Lawrence Wiseman- said a Jewish social service agency had promised to help leitner until authorities decided whether to return him to Montreal. judge Bapshay, started a collection from court attendants and spectators .contributed an undisclosed amount to help Leitner.
I would like to know how the rav was an einikel of the Berdichever Ruv.
In addition to being a direct descendant of the Berdichiver Rav, Rav Swift was also related to the Apter Rav (aka the Ohev Yisroel) who was buried near the Baal Shem Tov. Rav Swift’s father, Beryl, left Ukraine in the late 1800’s and settled in London. During the war years when the Ponevezher Rav would visit London, he would stay with the Swift family. Both Rav Issac and Rav Moshe Swift remained close to Rav Kahaneman until his passing.
@Swift Trivia – how do you know all this information about the Swift brothers? I would like to know more – please let me know how we can be in touch
The brothers Swift were also my great uncles. They were brothers to my grandmother Rebecca, wife of Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Fisch of Leeds. Their father was indeed Rabbi Beryl Swift of Liverpool.