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    Dovid Leibowitz (May 15, 1887 – December 4, 1941) was a Russian-born American rabbi. A disciple of Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania, he went on to found...
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    Rabbi Chaim Dovid Hakohen Leibowitz in 1933. Leibowitz was born in 1918 in Šalčininkai, Lithuania, and was the only son of Dovid Leibowitz. He came to...
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    The Yeshiva was established in 1933 by Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz, a great-nephew of the Chofetz Chaim. Leibowitz was a disciple of Nosson Tzvi Finkel and he...
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    Rabbi Dovid Harris (born 1945) is an Orthodox rabbi who, along with Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt and Rabbi Shaul Opoczynski, serves as Rosh Hayeshiva (deans)...
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    Aharon Kotler, of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim: Rabbinical Seminary of America in Queens...
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    HaKohen centered in Queens, New York founded by his great nephew, Dovid Leibowitz, with several branches in the United States, Canada, and Israel. Kagan's...
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    1926: 76  and later a rabbinical seminary (yeshiva gedolah). Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz, a torah scholar from Europe, headed the yeshiva's beit midrash (study...
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    he was 13, where he enrolled in Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim under rabbi Dovid Leibowitz. At the age of 16 Greenblatt studied under rabbis Yechiel Michel Feinstein...
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    Williamsburg, and respected elder in the American ultra-Orthodox community Dovid Leibowitz (1889–1941), founder and first rosh yeshiva of the Rabbinical Seminary...
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    Rabbinical Seminary Aharon Kotler, rosh yeshiva, Beth Medrash Govoha Dovid Leibowitz, rosh yeshiva, Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen Yehuda Levenberg...
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    Soloveitchik Gerber (1913-2011). Rabbi Yehuda David Goldman Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz Rabbi Jacob B. Agus Rabbi Abraham Avrutick Rabbi Moshe Zvi Aryeh Bick...
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    World War II. Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz Rabbi Chaim Rabinowitz Rabbi Shmuel Leib Svei (father of Rabbi Elya...
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    1928. Upon his departure, the Beis Midrash students also left. Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz joined the faculty of Torah Vodaath in June, 1927, and when the Beis...
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    Sarah Balmuth. His teachers included Moshe Rosen (Nezer HaKodesh) and Dovid Leibowitz. During Pam's sixty-plus years at Torah Vodaas, he held many positions...
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    David Bleich Rabbi Yerucham Gorelik Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman...
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    supervisor) of the Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in Queens founded by Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz, a position he held for 25 years before leaving to open his own yeshiva...
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  • Kanarek and Rabbi Shia Grodzitski, both students of Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz, the dean of the pre-World War II rabbinical seminary, which was known...
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  • Yeshiva were chosen to join the kollel, including Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz; his brother Rabbi Moshe Leibowitz; Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, future rosh yeshiva in Torah...
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    remained for the rest of his life. Among his students in Radin were Dovid Leibowitz, Yechezkel Sarna, Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik and Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman...
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  • Mendlowitz in 1926. Quinn also learned under Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Vodaath. When Leibowitz left to start his own yeshiva, Yeshivas Rabbeinu...
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    Belarus, and later studied at the Kaminetz Yeshiva led by Baruch Ber Leibowitz. He came to the United States with his mother and siblings in 1941 (his...
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    and realtor Shmuel David Leibowitz-Father of Boruch Ber Leibowitz Boruch Ber Leibowitz – leading rosh yeshiva Yisroel Leibowitz-leading Rabbi in Vilna from...
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    married his second wife, Chaya Nechama Ungar, the daughter of Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar. They had five daughters and two sons. In 1958 Halberstam established...
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  • modeled Ner Yisroel after Finkel's yeshiva, the Slabodka Yeshiva. Rabbi Dovid Kronglass, of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Europe (and during World War II in Shanghai)...
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    not host any Torah institutions. Together with his brother-in-law, Rabbi Dovid Mishkovsky, Rabbi Shimonowitz established the yeshiva in the central synagogue...
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    London: Board of Deputies of British Jews. p. 31. ISBN 0-905648-04-8. Yaakov Dovid, Shulman (1992). "A Letter to My Father". Pathway to Jerusalem. US: CIS...
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    "Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Idol smasher or idol maker?". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2024. Smashing idols was Leibowitz's mission...
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    the end of the 1940s, he married a granddaughter of Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz. His wife died in 2007. He lived in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood in...
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    from Meltzer, and he was also ordained by Rabbis Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky, Boruch Ber Leibowitz and Yechiel Michel Epstein. According to the responsa of...
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  • Herman was called the "Chofetz Chaim of America" by Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz, the Kaminetz rosh yeshiva, who lived with the Hermans for two years while...
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