Aharon Kotler

Aharon Kotler

male, deceased (1962)
Lithuanian Jew, MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah, Orthodox Judaism, Rosh yeshivas, Haredi rabbi in the United States, yeshiva
Rabbi Aharon (or Ahroyn, Aaron, Aron) Kotler (1891 - 1962) was a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania, and later the United States of...

Shmuel Kamenetsky

male
Yaakov Perlow, Litvish Jewish, Association for Jewish Outreach Professionals, gadol, Agudath Israel of America, MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky has been co-Rosh Yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia for the past 50 years with Rabbi Elya Svei and is...
Moshe Feinstein

Moshe Feinstein

male, deceased (1986)
Later Acharonim, MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah, reb, Rosh yeshivas, Lithuanian Jew, de facto
Moshe Feinstein (1895 - 1986) was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi and scholar, who was world renowned for his expertise in halakha and was the "de...
Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz

Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz

male
Rosh yeshivas, Haredi, Haredi Judaism, Haredi rabbi in Israel, Ponevezh yeshiva, Degel HaTorah…MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah
Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz is a Haredi leader living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He is one of the heads of the Ponevezh yeshiva and is a member of the...
Isser Zalman Meltzer

Isser Zalman Meltzer

male, deceased (1953)
MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah, Haredi rabbi, Mir yeshiva, yeshiva, Orthodox rabbi, Jewish person
Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870 - 1953) was a famous Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva and posek. He is also known as the "Even HaEzel",...
Yaakov Kamenetsky

Yaakov Kamenetsky

male, deceased (1986)
Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah, Slabodka Yeshiva, Canadian, minsk, Rosh yeshivas
Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, was a prominent rosh yeshiva, "posek" and Talmudist in the post-World War II American Jewish community. He was born in the...
Zalman Sorotzkin

Zalman Sorotzkin

male
"Lutzker Rav", MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah, Telz, Slabodka, Volozhin yeshiva, Haredi rabbi in Israel
Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin (1881-1966) was a famous Orthodox Rabbi. He is also known as the "Lutzker Rav", since he served as the Rabbi of Lutsk,...
Mordechai Gifter

Mordechai Gifter

male, deceased (2001)
Samuel Sar, Nusach Ari, Mordechai (Max) Gifter, MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah, yeshiva, dean
Mordechai (Max) Gifter was born in 1915, Portsmouth, Virginia. He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland where his father owned a grocery. He attended...
Yaakov Aryeh Alter

Yaakov Aryeh Alter

male, 70 years old
MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah, British Mandate of Palestine, Degel HaTorah, Mitnagdim, Góra Kalwaria, chasidim
Yaakov Aryeh Alter is a Hasidic rabbi, and since 1996 has been the seventh rebbe of the Gerrer chasidim in Israel, with disciples and branches in...
Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman

Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman

male, deceased (1987)
MoetzesGedoleiHaTorah, Daŭhinava, Rosh Yeshiva, Haredi rabbi in the United States, Slobodka, Nosson Tzvi Finkel
Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman was a prominent Talmudic scholar and Rabbi who founded and served as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ner Israel in...